A quick tech-question for the technologically inclined. [img]smile.gif[/img] Whenever I open a new video file in the VLC Media Player, it opens in nine seperate windows, rather then just one. Who knows how to merge these windows?

No idea why it would open 9? My VLC by default doesn't do this...

I've counted again. The actual number of windows it opens is closer to 18, but some of them overlap. ;) Since my videos are spread out over all these windows, it makes watching them impossible. :(

[ 01-01-2007, 07:07 PM: Message edited by: Dreamer128 ]

Is it opening the same video 9 or 18 times, or are they all different videos? Might be some spawn setting in VLC or something like that...

<font color=8fbc8f>First, what OS are you using?
Second, are your videos all one file, located in the same directory?
Third, why not use a native player, like Xine, or gXine, or Totem, or winders media player?

How are you using it? From a start menu, CLI or from the video file, open using?

Are your *codecs* up to date?</font>

VLC is generally handier than using "native" players since it can run pretty much anything short of RealMedia, so it saves you having to screw around with half a dozen players just to run every sort of video on your computer. It can also play DVD's, niftily enough.

Also, not sure, but try this:

Preferences, video, filters, image wall. Reducing the numbers so you'd get a "wall" of one single window might help, but keep in mind that this is pure guesswork. Or just under the "filters" option you may have "wall" checked.

Best suggestion I can come up with.

I've only seen something like this once before.

Before I upgraded my hard disks, and reinstalled XP, when playing WMV files in VLC (and only in VLC) I would get VLC's window and a second window with the title bar "YUV window".

When I reinstalled XP this disappeared. My guess is that it's a codec related problem.