General question about Pausing please

[Muzz]

Hi there. I'm producing a show & last time used PowerPoint for graphics ~ pretty basic. This time around I'm using movie clips & superb purchased moving graphics. Powerpoint is useless with playing moving images ~ plays very jerky & stuttering. So I'm making the whole 1 hour presentation into an mp4. Ok.
We're all complaining about WindMedPlayer because, in full screen, the blooming Playback Bar pops up across the bottom as soon as you pause (Ctrl+P) & I dont want that showing on my huge 16ft screen for an audience of hundreds. So... my question is, before I download VLC & really get into it .... when you pause a movie using VLC in full screen (spacebar), does the movie just pause? Or does it have anything popping up anywhere? Or a dreadful "PAUSED" in big letters somewhere on the screen? And can I pause for an indefinite period ~ like an hour ~ & then just resume by spacebarring again? Thanks so much. xx

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You can pause. You should deactivate OSD and fullscreen controller in preferneces.

[Muzz]

Thanx Jean-Baptiste. I know you can pause a movie in VLC. My question was, after you have paused it, does a Playback or tool Bar pop up? Or does the word "PAUSED" show up on the screen? Thanx.

[kdean]

Nothing will show up when paused if you deactivate the items JB mentioned in his post.