Gary Dale wrote:
Christophe Mutricy wrote:
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2009/4/6 Gary Dale <garyd...@rogers.com>:
The separate control and video windows can't be turned off,
That to works around a race condition causing crashes. Better detached
video than no video
Perhaps, but I never had any problem before.
the video window doesn't remember where it was the last time it was
opened,
not sure if it is a window manager or vlc bug but yes quite possible.
The control window remembers but the video window doesn't. The player
doesn't remember volume or mute settings either.
the playback speed controls are missing,
They are on each side of the timeline and by right clicking on the
"x1.00" in the status bar
Not obvious if they are there. Why did you remove the normal
double-chevrons? All I saw were the jump to previous/next videos.
Removed the current version and went back to the Etch version.
Re-tried the Squeeze version of VLC. I found the fast-forward/reverse
buttons. Silly place to put them. Why not leave them with the other
transport controls? And making them so small relative to the other
controls is not user-friendly.
the video seems to use more resources / is choppier than in the
previous version,
All videos? can you specify with which codec it happen? which video
output do you use ?
Also I notice you're using unofficial ffmpeg and libav* that could be
what bit you here.
I've been playing back avi, mpeg, wmv, mpeg2, DVDs, etc.. Doesn't seem
to matter which one. As for the unofficial, I just used whatever
Debian or debian-multimedia provided.
Playing back any file now gives me a b&w 1/4 width picture in a
full-width window (the right 75% of the screen is black, the rest of the
picture is squashed into the left 25%). And Aptitude seems to think I
have the latest versions of ffmpeg & whatever libav files I'm using.
Could be Debian Multimedia uses something else, but I've never had any
problems with their stuff before. It's just VLC that is acting up.
the new control bar has ugly icons,
1) test and color are a personnal thing
2) make sure you're qt4 theme is correctly setup (cd. qtconfig-qt4)
3) use the skin interface (or ncurse) if you really dislike qt4
Skins don't seem to work (see next problem)
However the problem I'm complaining about is that the tools |
preferences don't seem to do anything.
You'll have to be more precise than that. what kind of settings ? have
stop/start what you're playing after applying the setting? have you
stop and restart vlc ? Are the permissions on ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc
correct? does the file get modified when you save a preference
I have no indication that any of the preference settings actually do
anything. As for testing, I'll have to "upgrade" back to the current
version which I detest. :)
As for the permissions, they have me as owner with me as the group
also. Only the owner has write permissions. The files were last
modified on April 16, which sounds about right.
Some settings do seem to work now. I just made an incorrect video
setting and couldn't get back into VLC. I had to blow away the vlcrc
file. So yes, I am able to write to the files. However, it still doesn't
help me much. The player is still a bug-ridden, unfriendly and now
useless piece of garbage. I'm going back to the Etch version.
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