Moving a borderless VLC window on Windows 8/10 desktop?

[tl7]

It looks like it has been 3+ years since this topic has been addressed in the forums.

VLC flags "--no-video-deco" and "--no-embedded-video" can be used to start a borderless window but it looks like this borderless window still cannot be moved within the Windows 8/10 desktop. Is there a way to do this? Prior posts infer that this functionality is available on Linux.

I doubt this is a Windows-related restriction because this functionality is available on the MPC-HC player.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You cannot move it with the mouse, no.

[mederi]

VLC options for setting a position of non-embedded video:

--video-x=<integer [-2147483648 .. 2147483647]>
Video X coordinate
You can enforce the position of the top left corner of the video
window (X coordinate).
--video-y=<integer [-2147483648 .. 2147483647]>
Video Y coordinate
You can enforce the position of the top left corner of the video
window (Y coordinate).

You need to use some external helper to move the VLC borderless video window by a mouse. You could try KDE Mover-Sizer (Alt + Left-MB drag&drop) and/or NiftyWindows (Ctrl + Right-MB) whether they work for you on Windows 8/10. They work well on XP.

[tl7]

KDE Mover-Sizer (x64 version) works. Simple to install and use - thanks for the suggestion!

[dojima]

You cannot move it with the mouse, no.

Why?

[jayR]

Because you don't have a handle to pull.

[dojima]

Because you don't have a handle to pull.

There are many skinned programs and skinned elements of programs that don't look like a traditional Windows UI but can still be moved around the screen and resized as one would expect. I'm not sure what having a handle has to do with anything.

[jayR]

You need title bar to pull around window.

[dojima]

You need title bar to pull around window.

As the OP mentioned, the exact functionality requested works natively in MPC-HC, so that's not true.

[refried]

It is absolutely ridiculous that vlc has no borderless window option in 12 years. MPC has it, MPCHC has it, even the drag happy MPV has it. It's absurd and inexcusable. vlc has no benefit over those other players regardless of what OS you use.

[dojima]

It is kind of silly when software designers stubbornly refuse to add a feature simply because they can't understand the merit of it. I don't know if that's what's going on here, but that is what it seems like.

Many people desire this feature. I'm not saying you should drop everything and get to work on it immediately, but taking it into consideration and perhaps adding it to the roadmap seems entirely reasonable. The feature already mostly exists; all that needs to be done is to make it possible for the window to be moved around and resized without resorting to arcane methods.

[mltx]

Hey,

Is still feature still missing??

Coming from any other modern app, it feels just impossible to get used to not having the ability to move the window from anywhere of the player.

[ymca]

Yes it's still missing
Maybe they need to build VLC from zero to have that feature?!?
So use MPC-HC like I do for main videos and if you need vlc for one thing and have no choice, then open VLC.

[3xploiton3]

now is 2021, we need this behavior,

please make it possible soon

[Lotesdelere]

+1

[wozmatic]

It is kind of silly when software designers stubbornly refuse to add a feature simply because they can't understand the merit of it. I don't know if that's what's going on here, but that is what it seems like.

Many people desire this feature. I'm not saying you should drop everything and get to work on it immediately, but taking it into consideration and perhaps adding it to the roadmap seems entirely reasonable. The feature already mostly exists; all that needs to be done is to make it possible for the window to be moved around and resized without resorting to arcane methods.

dojima, how much time have you put into developing this app? Would you like to learn how to program this specific feature and send the code to the devs?

If not, then you are stubbornly refusing to learn to program this feature simply because you don't understand how to code it...

Some people in here have absolutely no right to complain about software that is FREE and developers donate their time for FREE to make a FREE video player for us to download.

Would I love to see this feature? Yes of course, but I have no right to expect it, only a polite request. We should be thankful VLC is free.

[mkdr]

This post is just a perfect example, why you should all just abandon this garbage software. VLC is dead. It is still on the same terrible "tech level" as of 1999. VLC is a dead fossil. It lacks simple features since 20 years. This is a perfect example of one of them. Every software has a borderless window mode where you can drag it around, every other video player, also Chrome/Firefox PiP mode can do this. But oh no, it can be done in VLC. Right.