VLC wishlist

[david101]

Hi,

First of all I would like to congratulate all concerned with the VideoLan project. It's simply fantastic!

Perhaps I can help by making some suggestions from the point of view of a DVD watcher....
(I'm using it mostly on windows boxes both xp and w7.)

1) A way to save settings like de-interlace mode. I have to set this manually every time I use it. Going into preferences and selecting SAVE has no effect.

2) Commonly used features on the console:-
* Turn subtitles on/off (once loaded). To do this at present requires quite a lot of mouse clicks which becomes very distracting when you just want to check a line or two...
* DVD player style rewind and fast-forward buttons. This is quite a tricky operation using the slider, you often end up up loosing your place completely. If you don't catch a mumbled line, first you have to tangle with the slider to go back a few seconds, then perform a lot of clicks to turn subtitles on, re-play the line, then perform a lot of clicks to turn subtitles off again.
* A clock showing real time. At present you have to minimise VLC to see the windows clock.

3) Larger fonts on the console. VLC is often viewed from a distance and the console fonts are just too small.

I hope this input is useful. With more and more people now watching videos on their computers a player with most of the features found on a $20 DVD player would be good.

Also, a feature found on slightly more expensive DVD players is remembering the position in a prematurely stopped program, ie - the program starts where you stopped it (like a video tape).


Thanks again.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

1. works for me in VLC 1.2
2. Use the hotkeys to do all those. Clock? no way.
3. No idea what you mean by console here.

[david101]

Sorry, by the console I mean the window with controls that pops up at the bottom of the screen when in full-screen mode when you move the mouse or touch a key.

The font in question is the time/time remaining text. (Hard to read from across the room)
I don't mean put a clock on the screen but on the "console" along with the time/time remaining text.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Use the OSD or the 't' key to get the time.

[david101]

Tried 1.1.2 but still does not keep de-interlace setting - I still have to enable it every time (ie turn ON).
Also this version stays in memory, ie does not unload properly in (xp pro sp2)
Gone back to 1.1.11

[VLC_help]

Use VLC 1.2.0, not VLC 1.1.2

[david101]

Use VLC 1.2.0

Where do I find it?

[Arite]

Nightly builds:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

Win32 >> Newest "branch" directory.

The current one:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/win ... 0111-0203/

Arite.

[david101]

Great, Thanks.

[david101]

Tried 1.2 but still does not keep de-interlace setting - I still have to enable it every time (ie turn ON).

Also right-clicking the screen ( to get to these settings) produces strange effects where a rectangular section of the image corresponding to where the right menu should appear becomes frozen.

[nkoriyama]

Preferences -> Video Setting -> Deinterlacing: Off/Automatic/On, Mode: Discard/Blend/Mean/Bob/Linear/X/Yadif/Yadif (2x)/Phosphor/Film NTSC (IVTC)