I suppose it is a splash screen.
When the program opens It says
Media VLC Player Portable
PortableAppscom / go/ VLCPortable
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dsxI9uP2Yp2w7iMWLKoNOitqvq7dzNW7/view?u...
It disappears after a few seconds, and normally this would not annoy me, but it does in this case because it is superimposed on the video I am playing.
Who knows how to disable this? I'm guessing it is in an .ini file, but I wasn't able to find anything that I could identify as related to this.
Tx, everyone.
Please see here: https://portableapps.com/support/portable_app#disable-splash
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Thanks, Mr. Haller.
Clearly I didn't read the entire Portable App Support page when I started using this product or, more likely, forgot most of the details.