multiple widows opening up

[tamray]

When I open a video file, multiple instances of widows with the same video open up. I end up with 3 or 4 screens of the same video. Some look more degraded than the one playing inside the vlc player. How can I eliminate this annoyance?

[CloudStalker]

This seems to happen sometimes with certain WMV files and there's nothing I found that will permanently stop them from coming up.

The only thing I can think of for now is to right-click on the interface, scroll down to Video Track, disable and re-enable Track 1. You'll have to do this every time though. This doesn't happen in other media players, so it's probably the way in which VLC handles some WMVs and maybe the developers will fix this when it becomes more of a problem.

[DJ]

Can you provide a sample?

Thus far this has been a rare occurrence that can not be duplicated for this format.

Also if you are not running VLC 0.8.6b it is suggested that you upgrade.

[rush4hire]

I'm sure there's a way.
I have the same problem.
viewtopic.php?t=35008


See there are many streams, 3 audio and 3 video.

I have to find the way to select the audio and video stream by number or something..

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C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe "C:\filepath\file.asf" --sout="#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst='C:\test\outputfile.asf'},dst=nodisplay}"

[CloudStalker]

One quick fix, even though it's not the most practical, is to disable the video track and re-enable it again. Right-click on the video window and go to Video Track, disable it and the set it back to track 1 all while the video is playing.

[DJ]

I would try remuxing the file properly, keeping the video tracks together and the audio tracks together with the video muxed first in the list of the muxer.

[rush4hire]

Thanks. I'm tired of experimenting though. Maybe you can tell me what a this <string> should be..

;~ --demux=<string> Demux module
;~ Demultiplexers are used to separate the
;~ "elementary" streams (like audio and video
;~ streams). You can use it if the correct
;~ demuxer is not automatically detected. You
;~ should not set this as a global option unless
;~ you really know what you are doing.


;~ --sout-ts-pid-video=<
;~ --sout-es-mux="mms"
;~ --access="access_mms"
;~ --demux="0x01"