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Hello, You asked about displaying the time remaining, duration, etc... On top of the playing video. I used to really live that feature, and I have tried using the Time.lua extension but cannot get it to work. Any chance of it being fixed or put back in the marquee function anytime soon? Thanks for y...

Hello Appy, I just wanted to say that I too have been unable to get the marquee function to work correctly for going on a year now. I currently can get the free text I type to display but none of the other things that you mention (elapsed time, time remaining , etc). I miss those dearly! Have you ha...

Hello. Any updates on the marquee bug? I use it often I really miss it in vlc 2.1. Certain functions still work: free text and all the % functions (I.e hour %H, time of day, etc). It's the metadata $ functions that don't work at all like $t to display title and the elapse time and time remaining. Th...

Hello. New here but have been using vlc for years (since .84 I think) to run video playlists from ripped DVD images using DVDsimple. My playlist has about 2000 entries and has worked well. I recently discovered syntax changes (/// instead of // ) when using dvdsimple and # instead of @ to start at a...