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--player-args "--fullscreen" with VLC breaks playback

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Bug Report

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Description

VLC has a built in --fullscreen argument for auto opening in fullscreen mode. But when using --player-args "--fullscreen", vlc will open, but it does not play the stream. Just goes to default playlist window.

Expected / Actual behavior

VLC should open streams in fullscreen mode when ‘–fullscreen’ is set as an argument.

Setting ‘–fullscreen’ as an argument causes the stream to not open at all. Just VLC to the default window.

Reproduction steps / Explicit stream URLs to test

run streamlink --player-args "--fullscreen" <streamurl> best

Log output

>streamlink --player-args "--fullscreen" <streamurl> best
[cli][info] Found matching plugin okru for URL <streamurl>
[cli][info] Available streams: 240p (worst), 360p, 488p, 720p (best)
[cli][info] Opening stream: 720p (hls)
[cli][info] Starting player: "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

2reactions

beardypigcommented, May 4, 2020

@bastimeyer sounds like a version 2 feature 😄

1reaction

bastimeyercommented, May 4, 2020

@gravyboat Maybe we should rename this to playerinput or so (with filename as fallback), which should make this much more clear.

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