Highlighted progress bar showing already downloaded parts

[Nameless]

Hi

VLC is a nice stream player, but one useful GUI feature is still missing.
It would be nice to see the already downloaded parts of the video stream by a highlighted progress bar like in many flash players (e.g. Youtube).


Bye,
Nameless

[VLC_help]

VLC doesn't do that kind of preloading. So if you press pause, VLC won't load the rest of the file to hard drive.
EDIT:
Also this wouldn't work for endless streams (like livecams).

[Nameless]

VLC doesn't do that kind of preloading. So if you press pause, VLC won't load the rest of the file to hard drive.

Is this behaviour changeable in the settings?
Most video streams you can't continue after a several minutes pause and up to now you have to begin anew. A preloading with reduced bandwidth - just enough to retain the streaming connection after pressing pause and to ensure a proper resume.

EDIT:
Also this wouldn't work for endless streams (like livecams).

Of course, this only concerns video streams with a specified length.


Bye,
Nameless

[VLC_help]

Is this behaviour changeable in the settings?

No.