Fullscreen: keep black screen after video ends?

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Fullscreen: keep black screen after video ends?

Postby dswhite42 » 15 Feb 2012 22:06

Hello. I have a dual-monitor setup with Windows XP (actually, a laptop screen, and an LCD projector and screen, with Windows in Extended Desktop mode) and am using VLC 1.1.9 to display videos using the projector.

My method is to start VLC, open a video and pause it, drag it to the projector/screen, hit "F" to fullscreen it, then rewind the video (which starts with black) so that I can easily start the video at the right time by hitting <SPACE>.

This works just fine, except that when the video ends, fullscreen mode disappears, and the large screen is suddenly filled with the laptop's desktop wallpaper and the VLC player interface.

For a more professional look, I'd prefer VLC to stay in fullscreen mode at the end of the video and simply display either 1) a black screen or 2) the final frame of the video (which has usually faded to black), rather than have it jarringly return to non-fullscreen mode.

Can this be done?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

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Re: Fullscreen: keep black screen after video ends?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 15 Feb 2012 23:13

Use the "keep image at the end" option.
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Re: Fullscreen: keep black screen after video ends?

Postby dswhite42 » 16 Feb 2012 04:00

Thanks, Jean-Baptiste, but where do I find that option? (A Google search for ""keep image at the end" turns up exactly 1 page: this thread!)

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Re: Fullscreen: keep black screen after video ends?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 16 Feb 2012 09:56

Advanced-> playlist
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Re: Fullscreen: keep black screen after video ends?

Postby dswhite42 » 16 Feb 2012 22:27

Jean-Baptiste, maybe I'm just dense, but even after upgrading to 1.1.11 I'm still not seeing anything like what you mentioned under Tools -> Preferences -> (Show All) -> Advanced:

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However I did discover an item under the "Playlists" menu called "Play and Pause", which seems to do the trick. So if nothing else, I can use that.

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Re: Fullscreen: keep black screen after video ends?

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 17 Feb 2012 00:42

Yes, Play and pause is the thing.
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