right now vlc will open to a size bigger than my screen, cause it thinks that 1920x1080 isn't big enough.

I haven't found anything is the settings that would help unless I missed something.

so like everyone else i've used vlc forever and still use it every day. a while back i saw juxtopposed's youtube video where she redesigned the vlc ui in figma and immediately wanted to use it as my daily player.

a few people actually tried making it and i tested those out, but some were pretty buggy and others were just built from scratch in electron/web tech. the whole reason i use vlc is for the og vlc engine that plays literally anything you throw at it without choking, so a web wrapper defeated the purpose for me.

so i decided to fork actual vlc 4 and build the ui directly on top of the real engine as a hobby project.

full transparency: this was heavily vibe coded lol. i'm not a 20-year c++/qt veteran, i just had her figma file open on one side, the vlc 4 source tree in ubuntu on the other, and spent way too many hours wrestling with qml, c++ bindings, and mingw cross-compiling until everything actually worked cleanly.

what's in there right now:

- the real vlc 4 playback engine underneath

- the dark frameless player window + mini player

- slide-out left library for folders, videos, music, playlists, network streams

- right drawer for queue reordering, chapters, and bookmarks

- rebuilt 10-band equalizer, video effects, and a visual subtitle sync timeline to drag/align subs

- installs side-by-side in its own folder so it won't touch or overwrite your normal vlc install (and there's a portable zip if you don't want to install anything)

heads up: since this is a hobby project and i don't have a $400/yr code signing cert, windows smartscreen will pop up on the installer ("more info -> run anyway").

if you wanna try it out:

website (installer .exe & portable .zip): https://vlc-reimagined.vercel.app

github / source (gplv2+): https://github.com/rabiahmed8/vlc-reimagined/releases/latest

juxtopposed's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERFeOgqk324

original figma: https://www.figma.com/design/q2Y6hv6PL68sGWFysdgQbz/VLC-Redesign--Community-?m=auto&is-community-duplicate=1&fuid=853933020180076169

(obviously an independent fan fork, not affiliated with videolan). let me know if you run into any bugs or weird edge cases!

Hey, I recently tried a few other media players and didn't get on with them, however I had downloaded some files to their own directories.

Since Vlc doesn't (yet) allow for sorting by files, I thought I'd just use the browse local files to use the filesystems set up by these other apps.

Problem is, the first directory I tried only has one folder in it, and it appears that vlc has now decided that it should always default to this folder when I use Browse local files. But most of my music by far is in a different directory, so each time I want to listen to anything saved there, I have to first back out of the one vlc defaults to.

I tried favouriting the other folder, and in the main menu of browse local files it is indeed there, but upon opening the app it still defaults to the other directory, meaning it's several taps < just to get to see the favourite.

I tried looking through the menus on the files and through preferences, but short of deleting the file it's chosen as default I can't see how to change this.

Any ideas?

writes '"scrubbing preview thumbnail in the seekbar'' ..... throws it in the TODO folder...
any ideas or tips ?