Windows/Fullscreen/Playlist: black screen between clips

[Arian]

When playing many different clips (misc formats) on full screen mode with playlist, VLC shows the desktop for a blink of the eye when change from file to file. Is that possible this problem to be solved? At least don’t return to the desktop. Put a black screen.

Thank you.


-Stelios

[The DJ]

what OS?

And the answer is probably no regardless of the answer. Since the core does not know what size the video output window is, it will just recreate a new window when the videosize is different from the previous.

[Arian]

what OS?

And the answer is probably no regardless of the answer. Since the core does not know what size the video output window is, it will just recreate a new window when the videosize is different from the previous.

Windows XP SP1. The "Windows" on subject means Windows OS and no windows mode. And I'm talking only for the full screen mode.

I understand, VLC has to do some work when a clip is finished and a new one starts. My request is that during that time, the screen to show black and not returning to the desktop.

[The DJ]

And i'm saying that this is a 'limitation' of VLC's core. VLC is highly modular and it doesn't care in what kind of videowindow it outputs. Also it does not know if the first movie is displayed fullscreen and the second one will be displayed fullscreen as well.

Currently this is impossible to implement (for a long time)

[Arian]

And i'm saying that this is a 'limitation' of VLC's core. VLC is highly modular and it doesn't care in what kind of videowindow it outputs. Also it does not know if the first movie is displayed fullscreen and the second one will be displayed fullscreen as well.

Currently this is impossible to implement (for a long time)

OK! Got it!

I’m using VLC to play video on a small theater. And I like the play list because I can show and some trailers (different formats) before the movie. I just don’t like this flash jump to desktop... but I can survive it. It’s not a pro theater!

Thank you...

-Stelios

[Sigmund]

a very simple, but perhaps usable idea: Set the desktop background color to black and enable autohiding on all the panels.This way your desktop will be black when it shows up between files

[Arian]

a very simple, but perhaps usable idea: Set the desktop background color to black and enable autohiding on all the panels.This way your desktop will be black when it shows up between files

Already projecting this way!

Thanks...

-Stelios

[_kf]

This is a problem for me too. I wanted to use VLC to display demo clips on a screen in a perpetual loop, but it just looks too unprofessional when the player pops up on the screen between each clip, regardless of what the background looks like.

Perhaps it would be possible to lock the view to a set window size or fullscreen, regardless of the video clip? Then VLC should stretch/shrink/letterbox all clips to fit the selected window, without changing any graphics settings. That is in essence what I have done anyway, it's just that VLC forgets this between clips.

This is useful in multihead setups also. It's an annoyance when the video keeps popping up on the "wrong" screen.

(PS, anyone have suggestions for a good alternative to VLC for my use? QuickTime doesn't load more than one file. WMP doesn't get the file formats, and if I have to transcode all the clips, I may as well edit them all together to one clip, but neither is a very flexible solution for me. I'm on Windows.)

[VLC_help]

VOUT recycle is back in 1.0.0 so you can get continuous playback.

[_kf]

Dumb question perhaps, but do you mean VLC Media Player 1.0.0? Where/when can I get it?

[ivoire]

Yes version 1.0
But this version is not release yet. The feature freeze is at the end of the month, so if everything is ok we might have the release in some months.

[grozea]

Great that this likely will be in v1.0. It is not clear above if it will work for any and all playback (including switching between two dvb-t programs on different frequencies) or only for playback of non-streamed sources like a number of separate video clip. Can anyone give some details on that?

[erwan10]

To be more precise, ...

As of today, vout recycle is back in v1.0 and features what used to be available in v0.8.x

YET, there is still a stringent restriction, namely items within a playlist must have the same width, height and chroma.
The likelihood that you don't meet those prerequisites is high. When not met, you fall back to the annoying vlc0.9.x behavior

VLC team, I beg of you to listen to our plea ! Please, remove the restriction ...

Erwan10

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

To be more precise, ...

As of today, vout recycle is back in v1.0 and features what used to be available in v0.8.x

YET, there is still a stringent restriction, namely items within a playlist must have the same width, height and chroma.
The likelihood that you don't meet those prerequisites is high. When not met, you fall back to the annoying vlc0.9.x behavior

VLC team, I beg of you to listen to our plea ! Please, remove the restriction ...

Erwan10

Well, Vout is a horrible mess in VLC, so, well, fenrir must give his advice on that, in order to go on.

[mend]

Hello!

Has this situation been improved in VLC lately?
I would like VLC to play a playlist of demos on a screen but the twitching between clips doesn't look the best.

Have anyone found a solution to this problem?