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Is there a way to make the VLC playback window completely borderless (no title bar, no other borders)?

Ideally, I would like the playback window to be completely borderless and then a separate window that has the controls (play, pause, timeline control, etc).

UPDATES:
I cannot use full screen mode, I would like playback window to be sized the same as the video, which is usually about 300x300 px. Also, I need to be able to position the window anywhere on the desktop.

I'm using the Windows version of VLC.

Rob Thomas
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This would do it :

vlc --no-video-deco --no-embedded-video

Video will stay on top-left on Windows. Add this for aligning:

--video-x=X --video-y=Y

e.g.

--video-x=120 --video-y=300

For command lines : VLC command-line help

Pradip
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Open VLC preferences, goto Video Options --> disable the checkbox 'Window Decorations' Next go to the "Interface options" --> disable the "embed video in interface".

This will play the video in a borderless window (works on Windows as well) the only thing I haven't figured out is how to set the size of that window).

Update: You can force the width and height of the playback window by adding "width=640 height=480" to the shortcut properties in windows (or the command line on other systems for example).

TimothyP
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"View" menu > "Minimal View".

That hides all the buttons and menus, but leaves the window border and windows minimize/maximize/close buttons.

May I ask what you're trying to accomplish with this?

Force Flow
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use this to play your borderless video @ 100:100 of screen with size = 500x400

vlc -I dummy --width=500 --height=400 --video-x=100 --video-y=100 --no-video-deco --no-embedded-video test.avi
Bakhshi
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Window borders and title bar are drawn by your window manager. Maybe you could use a tiling window manager like awesome which doesn't draw any borders.

I was able to run borderless vlc window containing only the movie played with command:

alltray --borderless vlc --qt-minimal-view movie.avi

This was tested under Ubuntu 10.10. You will need to install alltray which isn't available by default:

sudo apt-get install alltray
Paweł Nadolski
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maybe you can try using

vlc -I dummy <video.avi>
Simon Sheehan
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Facundo Garat
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double left click in the video window for full screen for windows or linux

alan harris
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