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Whenever I try and play an image larger than oh say 4096x900 VLC always crashes out because it thinks I'm trying to play a large video.

Is there any way to play an image that is large with vlc? (Yes I'm using VLCj and need to integrate videos and images.)

Im playing these videos/images across 4 monitors (and have the horsepower capable of it) the only thing limiting me is VLC crashing out at large resolution files.

Any help?

Thanks!

Does it happen with 4096x20 images?

So far, anything under 4096x900 will work rather happily.
I will try it with a 4096x20 image and see what the results are.
However, I tried it with a 6400x900 image and VLC crashed out.

There used to be an option for --fake-width and height, I was hoping that would fix it, but those options are no longer recognized?

Use VLC 1.2, it is probably better for that.

I have been using vlc 1.2.0 - git updates.

So it is still a problem within 1.2.0

Is there a new way of rescaling images on the fly with vlc? I just need it to accept an image that is rather large. The displayed image can be scaled down.
Thats what I though the --fake-width and height params did, but they are unavailable for some reason?