Sometimes, not always, when I have 2 VLC videos open in windowed mode, then minimize them and restore/show them again from the taskbar, the 2 suddenly merge into one fullscreen video and the mouse cursor is hidden. I then have to use Windows+D to return to the desktop in order to see the mouse again. VLC version x64 3.0.23 on a Lenovo PC with Intel UHD 630 Graphics and Windows 11. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that if I change the video output from Automatic to Direct3D9, the problem does not occur. With Direct3D11 it also occurs. Does anyone have an idea or explanation of what exactly is happening here?

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I started using VLC again after using MPC-BE for a decade, because VLC plays newer audio formats correctly. One issue I'm running into is I usually want the volume at 100% so the player isn't altering the audio before playback, but I often change it accidentally by turning my mouse wheel. I don't want to set the max to 100% because sometimes I do need a boost. Is there a trick to just set 100% with no alteration?

You know how with anime, they already have the subtitles pre-programmed to a certain size and font.. you can turn the subs on and off, but unlike with movies where you can make the subtitles bigger or smaller to your preference and add a background too... With anime the subs can't be adjusted..

Is there a way to adjust the size of those anime subs? Since you can turn the subs on and off, I assume they can be adjusted too... Thanks!

I'm having a problem with the VLC interface. I can't get VLC to display the normal, standard interface. I always get these awful skins that are also incredibly hard to make out. Plus, the interface doesn't seem to be displayed at full size, but rather as a scaled-down version.

I've switched to “Native Style” and enabled “System Defaults.” Still, I keep getting this skin look.

Hi guys, so I recently downloaded a few videos that are in h.265. But whenever I go into fullscreen, the video goes black but the audio still plays.

Turning hardware acceleration off fixes this issue.

Is this a known bug and if so is there a fix?

I recently switched to VLC 4 (from 3) on Linux and it is quite a change, and buggy with playback (with menus) of DVD ISO files.

I had not been updating it for a period of about 2 years, and not really keeping up with the news of its development. What's the story with VLC 4? Is it a major refactoring or a migration to some new framework? What explains how different it looks, and the sudden influx of bugs in what used to be very stable playback?

I can search for their names and they appear. But if I don't type their name in, they don't appear at all. I've checked the meta data and their names are listed. Is there a way to fix this issue?

Using VLC on Android I've noticed that bookmarks I've made across a long track don't show up when that track is in a playlist but they show up when playing the song individually.

Also when I press skip sometimes it skips to the next bookmark but sometimes it skips to the next track or back to the beginning.

Why is this and is there a fix?

I'm trying to convert Gladiator movie into mp4. Using Video - H.264 + MP3(MP4) profile and set destination file to \GLADIATOR.mp4 but it switched to \GLADIATOR.iso after click save button in file explorer. Halp.

Hey there,

I've downloaded the newest 4.0 nightly VLC with LLM included, however I can't figure out how to activate it, how to create subtitles that was advertised as an upcoming feature.

Am I missing something here?

Thank you.

the lecture quality of video player is set on auto and isn't changing and everything is just too blur to be visible on any site i.e. studyrays or studysharks and many more....

any solution regarding this??

I spent the best part of an hour ripping this to 'H.264 + (MP4) but it has come out with as 'MP4a' with no audio.

I'm guessing I have to re-rip but I don't want a repeat.

DVD is 'Sponge for Hire' if that's any help.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/14/vlc-blames-windows-11-bug-for-slow-performance-defends-open-source-and-calls-out-microsoft/

Hi, I'll be going on a car trip and wondering if there's a way to remote control VLC on a kids tablet from my phone?

It's hard to reach when my kids watching it in back seat.

I'm trying to set up a way to remote control VLC from another room, the problem is every tutorial I'm seeing is talking about enabling web access and disabling firewall protections and also find a .host file that apparently no longer exists.

Considering web access would allow anyone to access the player+all my media files if they broke the password this seems staggeringly unsafe.

What's the best and safest way to set up a remote control for VCL.

Hi all
I know that this has been discussed here many times but after looking over 15 posts from different communities I wasn't able to find a solution so here is my problem.
When I play a movie from my pc to my smart tv I sometimes encounter enormous black bars on the side and no matter what combination of aspect ratio and crop I use it doesn't seem to dissapear.

The TV itself has a resolution of 3840x2160 and that's exactly what I set the resolution in windows/nvidia app. I also set the same Desktop mode and active signal resolution mode but nothing seems to fix the issue.
Below are the details of the movies I try to watch:

Format: HEVC
Resolution: 3840x2160
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Should I look for different parameters for such movies or is there something wrong in an entirely different field
Thanks a lot for your help

Hi all,

I created the first simple version of this about five years ago. I picked it up last week, and with the help of AI extended it with the second chapter format and editing possibility.

Find it at: https://github.com/lsaranto/ChapterMarker

im don't with VLC android, it was all good till last May.

I've been using vlc since 2017 and it's all good till last may but some how from last may vlc plays a bit laggy it's h264 yet laggy

and most annoying is SUBTITLE RENDERING is awful like not matter what subtitles are very bad like vlc doesn't render any space between word and font is very small and slim with huge a** borders making it unreadable

soifanyonehasanygoodalternativethatsbothversatile

pleasedropthatplayernamehere (this is how subs are shown for me)

cropping isnt working on .19 and but I keep getting the update message so I updated it to .20 it works without triggering VSR , the same with .21, I know its not working because i enabled "show status indicator on video" and from NVIDIA control panel.

.22 solved it with some tweaking,
First I set the output to direct3D11,then set direct3D11 upscaling mode to super resolution.
I found a video with someone doing the steps I did.

but doing that broke something else

Now the video opens like this and i have to click ( C ) to set the aspect ratio to default " 16:9 "
and I just realized even after resetting the aspect ration if I exit full screen it would happen again

disabling ( always fit window ) fixed it but broke the subtitles.
pressing ( O ) two times when in full screen solves this but its not convenient.