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I haven't found that in the settings, so I'm hoping for a hacky way to get it working.

When I start VLC, sometimes the window is tiny-tiny and sometimes almost full screen. When the latter occurs, it often gets placed so that the right part of it is outside the screen.

Of course, by pressing Enter I can make it to full-screen but I'm a bit annoyed because I feel that the computer gets to decide and I'm not in full control.

Is there a way (in the settings that I've missed or by editing some file or registry) to always start VLC at a certain position and with a certain width and/or height?

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I had the same problem, since I use a TV for video watching. The VLC refused to remember its screen, which I defined as No. 2, its size and position. Thus, I thought something had been changed in the later versions, but I was wrong.

Windows can remember exactly where and at what size to start VLC if one holds down the Ctrl key and closes the software's window with the X button in the right top corner.

There's one condition, however. It does not work if the VLC window has been maximised. Click the middle button, and set size and position before closing VLC.

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Tools> Preferences - Simple view> (under "look and feel")> [ ]deselect "resize interfce to video size"> [/] select integrate video in interface> save> manually resize screen to your preference> Media - select quit to lock setting.

Reopen video and it will open to ehatever size you left it at.

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Sadly, the fact that --width and --height don't actually work and haven't since VLC v2.1.0, it looks like this won't be fixed now.

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/9931

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  • Link only answer is useless, especially when it will be broken. Can you elaborate on this a little more?
    – Toto
    May 18, 2018 at 11:58
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    It's Videolan's bug tracking system so it'll be around for a while. There's a report from November 2013 in which someone raises the point that --width and --height don't work. A few additions of reports since then and someone pointing out that the problem is still not resolved in V3.0.0. Finally someone chiming in in December 2017 asking if there's any progress. At no time was there any participation from Videolan as far as I can see.
    – G. Stewart
    May 18, 2018 at 12:16
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You can set command line parameters --width and --height. https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Command_line/#Video_options

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Open VLC. Go to tools/preferences/interface.
Uncheck "resize interface to video size". That should fix the problem.

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