Stupid programmers and stupid interface designers.

[theweaselking]

So, due to a security hole in the old version, I patched VLC Media Player to the latest version, today.

BIG MISTAKE.

Now, I can't get it to display fullscreen video on my second monitor. Monitor #1, sure, fullscreen away. Monitor #2, no.

Previously, I moved the player onto monitor #2, hit the fullscreen button, and it went fullscreen on THE MONITOR I SELECTED.
Now, it "helpfully" goes fullscreen on MY PRIMARY MONITOR.

Regardless of the fact that monitor #1 is a 14.1" laptop screen and monitor #2 is a 37" HDTV.

Help me, interweb. Why did VideoLan get stupid, and how to I fix their broken-ass product?

EDIT: It's a bug in 0.9.8a. Reverting to 0.9.6 fixes it. And leaves me vulnerable to the buffer overflow in malformed .rm files, but that's okay, since I never use RealAnything and I play video files not of my own creation only very rarely.

Comments

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

go read this and see if that helps

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=49520

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

First: There IS NO "video device" under the video menu.

Second: If I set a device manually, then it will only play video in windows on that screen - but hitting fullscreen still tells it to use primary monitor, and simply leaves me with a black main screen (because no video is allowed there) and a black second screen (because that's where the video window is).

Third: Forumdude says "If you select 'default' it will fullscreen on whichever monitor the viewer is on."
This is a filthy lie. That was the OLD behaviour, which is no longer does. The new behaviour does not care what screen the viewer is on.

[jerril]

I think you're looking in the wrong video menu or he's not clearly indicating the correct video menu.

Tools -> Preferences -> Video -> Display Device

Does wallpaper mode help?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No. It's a bug in the new edition. Reverting fixes it, with the same settings.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

However, the forums have led me to a dozen other people having the exact same symptoms with the exact same version.

Since the security hole is a buffer overflow in .rm files and I never play those, I may be willing to go backwards on this one.

[mrbankies.livejournal.com]

Yup. I did some further digging and found the same thing myself. I also don't have a two monitor set up to futz with it to see if there's a way to beat it into submission.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I've got two two-monitor setups. And it was happening in both.

[blake-reitz.livejournal.com]

Best way to fix it: go back in time to moments before you "upgraded", then stop yourself. By ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Tempting. Very, very tempting.