LibVLC and rather large images

[Tyeo098]

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!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Does it happen with 4096x20 images?

[Tyeo098]

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?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Use VLC 1.2, it is probably better for that.

[Tyeo098]

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?