VLC 2 plays video at native size, stays fullscreen after :-(

[Wizardling]

VLC 2 seems to have some very strange and rather nonsensical new defaults - unlike previous versions, it begins playback of video at the native size instead of fullscreen (which I then have to manually change to), then after playback has ended it stays at fullscreen - which escape will not back out of (only when video is playing does escape work, not after... even stranger), only Command-F works then.

I'm not sure I understand the sense of starting playback at native size or staying fullscreen where one can do nothing afterwards. Was this intentional?

[Wizardling]

FYI - just tried deleting prefs and setting playback to start fullscreen. This is still ignored. Fullscreen is also still not exited once playback finishes. So it's not a bad prefs issue, though VLC obviously isn't respecting some of it's own preferences I've also tried this on a couple different Macs now - same result which is very disappointing.

[kdean]

Are you on Lion? If so try disabling Lion's native Fullscreen mode in the preferences and restart VLC.

[fkuehne]

You seem to be using the 64bit build of VLC (or the universal binary in 64bit mode) on Mac OS X 10.6.8, which shows the described behavior. This will be fixed in VLC 2.0.1, which will be out shortly. For the meantime, you can use the 32bit build targetting Mac OS X 10.5 available on videolan.org, which doesn't include this bug.

(the 64bit build on OS X Lion isn't affected either, it's just 64bit on 10.6.)

[Wizardling]

Are you on Lion? If so try disabling Lion's native Fullscreen mode in the preferences and restart VLC.

No, OS X 10.6.8 here. Lion takes OS X down a path I find less usable, so sadly I'm avoiding newer versions of OS X.

[Wizardling]

You seem to be using the 64bit build of VLC (or the universal binary in 64bit mode) on Mac OS X 10.6.8, which shows the described behavior. This will be fixed in VLC 2.0.1, which will be out shortly. For the meantime, you can use the 32bit build targetting Mac OS X 10.5 available on videolan.org, which doesn't include this bug.

(the 64bit build on OS X Lion isn't affected either, it's just 64bit on 10.6.)

Ah, thanks - I'll wait for the update then