You have to edit lua\http\.hosts. http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=98243#p328292 On default setting, you can access only from local ip(localhost, 127.0.0.1). If you want to access the http interface from another computer on your private LAN, you need to modify lua/http/.hosts file....
Well, on my environment, I can see properly Sinhala subtitles using LKLUG Sinhala Unicode Font. Screenshot (it says Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Sinhala): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7574919/vlc/vlcsnap-2012-02-21-00h19m51s244.png Sample file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7574919/vlc/SampleM...
Do you set suitable default encoding setting and font setting in the preferences?
Default value of font setting is arial, and it doesn't contain Sinhala glyphs.
As you said, short cut key for jumping to specific time is not exist on VLC 2.0.0, but still you can do it with double click on the time.
Can you enable status bar? (View -> Status Bar)
On default setting, you can access only from local ip(localhost, 127.0.0.1). If you want to access the http interface from another computer on your private LAN, you need to modify lua/http/.hosts file. If your private address is 192.168.x.x, you need to uncomment the line 192.168.0.0/16 And you can ...
Btw, any plans to incorporate an encoding menu for subtitles (as in currently used subtitle)? I find it rather tedious converting .srt files to UTF-8 manually...
Do you mean VLC should detect subtitles file encoding automatically?
When you play with Cyrillic subtitles, you need to set the font contains Cyrillic glyphs. Similarly when you play with Chinese subtitles, you need to set the font contains Chinese (CJK) glyphs. VLC does not have fallback mechanism like choosing another font when the font has no glyphs for the langua...
Blu-ray menu is not supported on the current version, but a patch has already been submitted to vlc-devel mailing list, so it will be supported on the feature version. I don't know when it comes.
ATM, Blu-ray Disc support is *experimental*.
Not to rain on the parade, but clearing the fontconfig folder doesn't work for me in 17 Feb nightly. In fact, if I hit 'play' it will simply restart the process. Are there any plan of actually fixing the Freetype or CoreText subtitle renderers? What's your problem? We only plan to fix the problem t...