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Why wouldn't it work? (startrek.website)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You've activated my hyperanalytical brain. I have to know exactly how that worked

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know the exact technicalities but you can think of it as there is a color that's "VLC video", like a green screen. VLC itself consists of a window filled with this color and projects the video to the coordinates. Once you minimize the window, the video disappears, not because it isn't projected anymore, but because there is no "projection surface", except if the color happens to appear somewhere, be it paint or the background. I hope that makes it clear as far as I myself understand it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fascinating. Follow up question, did your computer have a second graphics card for 3D graphics/decoding video?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is almost 2 decades ago, so I doubt it