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What version of VLC is used?

2.5.5. The version that was available when I posted the message.

It's annoying that it refuses to see a file that it's capable of playing.

Sorry, I don't understand.

When asking VLC to open a file it won't admit .wmv files exist--they are not on the list of files to pick. However, if the phone is told to play the .wmv file with VLC it plays fine.

It plays them just fine if it's made to do so but it won't admit they are there to play in the first place. Any fix or do I just have to recode them in a more android-friendly format?

then i regard this as a serious bug that needs to be fixed.

Then submit a patch.

Not all of us speak C.

Situation: I had a couple of instances of VLC running to compare two files to see if they were really the same file in different formats. The power went out and I found out that the external drive wasn't plugged into the UPS. One instance correctly told me the drive wasn't responding anymore, the ot...

I have seen some foreign-made DVDs with this problem--they have bad data in a header and VLC swears it doesn't know what to do with them, but an actual DVD player plays them fine.

Most display devices only support Overlay on primary monitor. So on multimonitor setup the best option is to disable it. The overlays work on all monitors in my system--with it turned on I can run VLC on any screen without difficulty. The problem comes from trying to move it from one to another. Th...

You can only have one Overlay. So you can't have overlay on both desktops. Obviously--you only see the image on whatever monitor has most of it. The problem is that when you move it to a new monitor it generally doesn't work on the new monitor. I think there must be a bug in the code for moving to ...

Deactivate Overlay.

That does it. What's the problem?

This has been a problem with the more recent versions. If I'm watching a movie on one screen and drag it to another it's always been a bit temperamental, sometimes the video goes blank until it's returned to it's original screen. It's gotten much more obnoxious, however. These days if I drag a scree...

It should be in under vlc-0.9.0 folder (assuming you have downloaded nightly builds).

No wonder I didn't find it. I saw the VLC source but I was looking for the stuff to work with it, not the source itself. Thanks.

With C you can use libs and headers found from sdk folder.

Where do I find this sdk folder??

Another Delphi programmer here, even more stumped. The only wrapper I have found seems to only use depreciated functions, it doesn't seem like that's something to start with. It's also horribly documented--a lot of the communication seems to be by setting variables--and I see no docs on what it's ex...

Actually, I would think the problem would be the second monitor on the AGP card. But I have never had 3 monitors to try to work this one out. If it is workable considering Microsoft's statements. 1) It works *MOST* of the time. It always can be recovered by dragging it back and forth. 2) It very oc...

Grab the source! I just described what I'm aware of and what has resolved the issue for other users. :P Did you try it?? VLC is not like other players in that everything needed to play the file is started and released at the end or when you press Stop. Resizing is a part of the process. I'll have a...

In 0.8.5 the player is resized to the video rather than in prior versions where the video was sized to the player. For some users depending on the hardware this is a problem. You can revert to the way prior versions did this by going to preferences, Video and scroll down to Window properties. Then ...

I also see a bug on the nightly build with the slider. When trying to select the first third of the movie the slider jumps about and cannot be accurately positioned (and sometimes disappears). If you can get the slider to the last third of the movie it behaves perfectly and can be dragged and posit...

I haven't tried the nightly, just the current release version.

I've also found that it's not 100% but I haven't identified what causes the difference.

The situation: I am watching some .avi files that are a series of files. As one ends (there is some extraneous stuff at the end I'm not watching so the movie doesn't actually end) I use quick open to select the next one. Sometimes VLC resets to the native size of the file, sometimes it remains at th...

But I'm moving from the PCI to the AGP--a Windows bug that gives priority to the AGP shouldn't cause a problem.


Incidently, it happened moving from #3 to #1.

Unfortunately I can't trigger this reliably. My hardware configuration is 3 monitors. Monitors #1 and #2 are connected to the primary video card, an AGP card. Monitor #3 runs off a PCI card. They are physically arranged #2, #1, #3. If I launch Videolan on monitor #3 and then drag it to monitor #2 so...