Vista and VLC Player

That application might has some dependency on Java which has been known to
disable Glass if the latest version Java 6 SE is not installed. Try that and
see if it resolves the problem:
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Riley Churchill" <riley.churchill@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi ,
>
> If you use VLC Player on Windows Vista it takes away the aero effect.
>
> I was wondering does anyone know how to either keep the aero effect with
> vista ( im guessing you cant ),
>
> or can anyone recomend another player that plays almost all movie
> extensions like vlc does, and still keep aero effect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Riley

Yes I have the new java,

And yes Tim, it does not loose aero UNTIL you play a video, then aero is
lost.

So...what could be causing this?

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> That application might has some dependency on Java which has been known to
> disable Glass if the latest version Java 6 SE is not installed. Try that
> and see if it resolves the problem:
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "Riley Churchill" <riley.churchill@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:64DBD996-1BA1-4347-8801-C058E33DDA14@microsoft.com...

>> Hi ,
>>
>> If you use VLC Player on Windows Vista it takes away the aero effect.
>>
>> I was wondering does anyone know how to either keep the aero effect with
>> vista ( im guessing you cant ),
>>
>> or can anyone recomend another player that plays almost all movie
>> extensions like vlc does, and still keep aero effect?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Riley

>
>

Tim,
Andre's correct; some applications need the new Java 6 to resolve that
Aero problem.
Tim & Andre,
Think this is the link that you're looking for.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp

Goes right to Java 6; and it's under :
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 Release Candidate
The Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) allows end-users to run Java
applications.

It may help

Jeff
:-)


"Tim Draper" <veehexx@NOSPAM_btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> im running VLC v0.8.5
> aero running fine here. not played a video through it, but it opens/closes
> fine with no loss of aero.
>
> tim
>
> Riley Churchill wrote:

>> Hi ,
>>
>> If you use VLC Player on Windows Vista it takes away the aero effect.
>>
>> I was wondering does anyone know how to either keep the aero effect with
>> vista ( im guessing you cant ),
>>
>> or can anyone recomend another player that plays almost all movie
>> extensions like vlc does, and still keep aero effect?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Riley

Riley,

Some apps just aren't set up to run with Aero,
if you are running Java 6- not the Java 5 update 6;then
it's the application itself.

Jeff


"Riley Churchill" <riley.churchill@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4F40EEE3-8577-4251-8F52-42A8A1CFB7A1@microsoft.com...

> Yes I have the new java,
>
> And yes Tim, it does not loose aero UNTIL you play a video, then aero is
> lost.
>
> So...what could be causing this?
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e1%23pDyZCHHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

>> That application might has some dependency on Java which has been known
>> to disable Glass if the latest version Java 6 SE is not installed. Try
>> that and see if it resolves the problem:
>> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>> "Riley Churchill" <riley.churchill@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:64DBD996-1BA1-4347-8801-C058E33DDA14@microsoft.com...

>>> Hi ,
>>>
>>> If you use VLC Player on Windows Vista it takes away the aero effect.
>>>
>>> I was wondering does anyone know how to either keep the aero effect with
>>> vista ( im guessing you cant ),
>>>
>>> or can anyone recomend another player that plays almost all movie
>>> extensions like vlc does, and still keep aero effect?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Riley

>>
>>

>

"Riley Churchill" <riley.churchill@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:4F40EEE3-8577-4251-8F52-42A8A1CFB7A1@microsoft.com...

> Yes I have the new java,
>
> And yes Tim, it does not loose aero UNTIL you play a video, then aero is
> lost.
>
> So...what could be causing this?
>

This will be an effect that we will see with a lot of legacy video players.
I use VLC myself, but haven't got it installed on this Vista machine yet.

Any programs that use plian video overlay will cause Aero to switch of while
the app is in use. I've seen this happen when I am using DScaler.

New versions of VLC, etc, will have to start using VMR instead, which allows
more than one windows to use overlay (or something like that).

ss.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e1%23pDyZCHHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> That application might has some dependency on Java which has been known to
> disable Glass if the latest version Java 6 SE is not installed. Try that
> and see if it resolves the problem:
> http://java.sun.com/javase/6/

I have seen Aero being fixed in this way since the Java update. I didn't
realise why some of my apps, like ArchiCAD 10, started behaving properly
until now.

However, the problem with Aero and video apps is a seperate issue as I have
explained in my other post in this thread.

ss.

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:10:19 -0000, Riley Churchill
<riley.churchill@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi ,
>
> If you use VLC Player on Windows Vista it takes away the aero effect.
>
> I was wondering does anyone know how to either keep the aero effect with
> vista ( im guessing you cant ),
>
> or can anyone recomend another player that plays almost all movie
> extensions like vlc does, and still keep aero effect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Riley

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=27321