VLC drops out of fullscreen at the end of movies

Steps to reproduce error:

1. You're watching a movie on VLC, in fullscreen.
2. You fall asleep, mid-movie.
3. VLC wakes you up at the end of the movie because it drops out of fullscreen and essentially turns your LCD TV into a big-ass flashlight in your otherwise sleep-friendly bedroom.

Fix: Don't mess with the user's choice to have the app in fullscreen mode. If they want fullscreen, please let them have fullscreen. The end of a movie is typically dark and sleep-friendly. Please just pause at the end and don't drop out of fullscreen.

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assigned to @fenrir and unassigned @jbk

This is not a mistake. This is normal. What you want is to keep the last frame paused.

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For the purposes of using VLC as a movie playing application, the current behavior doesn't make sense.

Dropping out of fullscreen should be a choice made by the user, not the software.

Original author: minitonka

Works like you want it on mac with latest nightly of 2.0. Although I am logging a new ticket for this since the player is not quittable after that.

That's --play-and-pause.

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closed

mentioned in issue #5852 (closed)