Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger Build 8A425) and subtitle problems

[Hodag]

VLC 0.8.1

When trying to play any any .avi with an .srt or any subtitle file, or a .mkv or .ogm with bundled subtitles, the subtitles selection in the Video menu is grayed out. In addition, any additional audio tracks (other then the first) are inaccessible as well, as the audio channel selection menu item is also grayed out.
Any ideas?

[simon]

have you tried compiling it under 10.4?
that might fix it, but honestly i have no idea.

[Hodag]

Yup, compiled under 10.4 and tried the latest nightly as well. No joy.

[robUx4]

Do the same files work in 10.3 ?

[The DJ]

Yes i was recently made aware of this issue. It will be solved in a next version, but i still need to get Tiger first, so that is the issue here. I'll be burning it today, and then i have to install it on my 2nd mac, which then needs to be updated to the current vlc development build environment.

So it will still take some time before it is finished

[Hodag]

Thanx for the status report! Any workarounds for the time being?

[The DJ]

Nope. Well, use the preferences perhaps to make it default to another device.

[The DJ]

i fixed the issue for the next release.
For 0.8.1 there is a workaround.

When you first click on the Help menu and then with the menu open, move to the Control, Audio or Video menu, you will see that the menu is suddenly there

It's not very handy, but it will get the job done.

[Hodag]

Cool! What was the problem? (If you don't mind me asking.)

[The DJ]

Apparently menu's got smarter. So where the program used to get notified of any menu opening, now we only get notified of the menu that you actually open. We were using the Help menu as the key menu to do some checks, and in Tiger that no longer works.

[Hodag]

Well the workaround works just fine. Thanks for the quick info and I can't wait till the next rev.

[Stevesien]

I also have tiger installed, and many menu items are greyed out but your FIX of opening the Help menu first then go to the other menu heading worked for me too. Thanks
Steve

[milo]

Using Tiger, the help menu fix was really great to get the other grayed out menus back.

However, I now have problem of vlc crashing whenever I go from full screen view back to windowed view. When I first open a movie and view full screen, it is fine. When I go from full screen back to a windowed view, it goes back, the top window where the close/minimise buttons are for the video goes white, and I get a spinning ball until it eventually crashed not long after.

Any ideas?

[guest0l0]

I also have the problem of vlc crashing when going from fullscreen to windowed view.

just to second the report.

[invité]

I also have the problem of vlc crashing when going from fullscreen to windowed view.

just to second the report.

use vlc 0.7.2

[avrelus]

The pb of accessing to video and audio menu is ok for me when i goes from help menu to video.

But i have the same problem when going from full screen to window screen.

VLC crash !

here is the console message :

[[32;1m00000001[0m] main vlc error: [31;1moption rt-offset does not exist[0m
[00000001] main vlc error: option rt-offset does not exist
Apr 30 01:36:44 avrelus crashdump[825]: VLC crashed
Apr 30 01:36:50 avrelus crashdump[825]: crash report written to: /Volumes/data/avrelus/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/VLC.crash.log


With VLC 0.7.2 : same pb of menu acces but it don't crash when exiting full screen mode...

[White Phoenix]

Another workaround: you can toggle between the audio and subtitle tracks using the keyboard. Using the default configuration: l to cycle through audio tracks available in the file, s to cycle through audio tracks.

Additionally, will a new version of the XviD codec be included with the new Mac binary release of VLC? I'm starting to notice that more and more of my video files are becoming jerky, and I have no idea how to install a new version of the XviD codec into VLC to get around this problem.

[Guest]

Now that Tiger has been released, any timeframe for a VLC update? Most annoying bug is the crashing when switching from Fullscreen to Windowed mode.

[UTB_Avid]

I have noticed that if I use the VLC controller to switch from full screen to windowed, instead of hitting escape, that VLC won't crash.

[Ganteng]

Same thing happened with my Mac OS Tiger when using VLC 0.8.1

when is the newer version going to be launched?

[judacris:temp]

It seem it does. It's very jerky, with or without subtitles.
The same file works perfect with the workaround on 0.8.1 to show subs.

[dc2610]

I can't get subtitles to work. I tried everything in this thread. I get a message that says that subtitles aren't available. In menu subtitles stays greyed out no matter what I do. When I start the movie I get an error message that says an error occurred with regards to the subtitle file. I have Tiger.

Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this?

[dc2610]

I also get this message when I start the movie "main: no suitable access module for `file://'

I don't know what this means.