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As far as I know, this is the only software unrelated to video or audio play - in this case a video game - that has built-in controls for VLC media player, by using MPRIS and dbus. It can do 2 simple things only: pause / play and 4 second skip-back. Any more functionality would reserve precious keys...

Yes, and option to include that metadata in subtitle files with specially formatted subtitles for those times. Video viewers not supporting that feature would just show a weird subtitle on that time and move on.

I want this for taste reasons / because dark gray would be nicer and closer to average color.

Give options for 3 color channels, color number from 0 to 255. Also, html color codes. Also, Qt has feature to take color names like "green" from the user.

wow what a strange / peculiar / rare need, I never would have guessed I think better to have something more general that enables implementing that dancing need. In theory, it might be possible to write a 50 line c++ program that uses MPRIS inter process communication to do it. Is it so? Would be a g...

One way to ensure backward compatibility to at least current options, is to put all new config options to new config file that has a different name. Bit arbitrary to make 2017 the break year, but still.

At least in ubuntu and openSuse configuration files here:

/home/mydirectory/.config/vlc

Why not use them.

show hidden files first

So are you confirming that there is no such software for Qt or software in general, from Qt developers or anyone(regardless of them being associated or not with Qt )? Lots of github projects out there. On what category would that belong? You could at least say that such software would be nice and yo...

Maybe have another, tiny program that gets the texts by inter process communication from VLC and that other program's window has to be kept visible near the VLC window, or maybe on a second monitor when VLC is full screen. Option to have different language texts in different windows.

There should be a software that can be used to configure at least part of any software, with product-specific definition files that tell how to edit config files for VLC and others. This especially for key bindings. Is there? This could be meant to be common for Qt software. Using that kind of softw...

Yes. Indexing could start after opening file, in a separate process, take only set amount of CPU core like 50%. Option to save thumbnail 16x16 grid files on the same directory, so they can be used the next time.

If this mode is activated: When VLC senses that the computer has not enough computing power to show a file in the current configuration, VLC could automatically try different settings until it hits a combination that works with 10% of computing capacity to spare, or it has to inform the user that th...

"During these times it'd be nice if VLC could 'sense' that,"

What does that mean?

"Other players does this."

Which? How their websites describe that feature?

Especially useful with .mkv files when subs are within file.

Also, option to extract subs from a video file to a separate text file, with or without time codes.

When this mode is activated, without needing to press any button, moving mouse on the Y axis or X-axis should change volume in proportion to the coordinate change. This would be better than using mouse wheel. Also something similar with joystick and gamepad. New Qt has support for gamepads. Maybe th...

Especially when using external storage, it would be nice if it could be removed after few minutes, without copying files. At least 2 options to choose: VLC could take the whole file to RAM as is, or the file could be uncompressed while reading from storage, occupuying much more memory space but bein...

Related thing: if there are bars, color of those should be adjustable in settings. Maybe have 3 rgb numbers from 0 to 255, html color codes and/or something else.

This should be on by default partly because it would help deal with malformed files when looping autoplay is on. Good feature to have anyway. Opt-out and adjustment of pause delay should be on settings.

Have loop autoplay on, and try to load some file type that does not make sense to load with VLC, like a text file. I believe I don't have to describe what happens, other than you might have to use system monitor to send sigkill to VLC. That kind of thing also happens when a video file in external ha...

I noticed that this page was deleted, unfairly, years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Remote_Interfacing_Specification Situation must have changed so that everyone sees the relevance and notability of MPRIS. Whatever is or should be on the wikipedia page should be in some documentati...

This is not for me, but some might like it.

That kind of thing might bring money to vlc developers from record companies. That is one thing they should not do for free. Just some quick thougts here. no expert

I don't know what it means "not to make sense in games". Let's say I am playing some game while listening to audio with VLC. If I skip back 4 seconds by pressing one button in keyboard or even on a joystick, game controller / game pad / Steam controller, that "would not make sense&quo...

I see it now. Previously I used the help search with wrong keywords with too little effort in checking and also because I haven't seen any other software use those features, I guessed that they do not exist. I want to integrate that kind of control in my software for Linux and request such features ...

2 main purposes for having (especially audio file) playback control available from other software by inter-process communication: 1.When using some other software, that may be a video game, web browser or spreadsheet, while listening to audio with VLC, there would not be need to change software focu...