The VideoLAN Forums

VLC does depend on msvcrt.dll in your WINDOWS/System32 directory. My copy has the date August 4, 2005 (4/8/2004). If there's another copy ahead of that one in your PATH Vlc might have a problem.

You find out what they mean by posting the log here and asking.

Did you Save the preference change, Close VLC, then restart? That's how preferences get saved permanently. Also, if the app you're switching to also thinks it should "stay on top" it will be equal to VLC and whichever has the focus last will be on top. It's just a style bit in the main win...

I assume this is a feature request, and it's not a good one. There are enough programs in the world that require Administrator security to run without adding another. Current user app data folder is definitely where settings should go.

sgross

Make sure your current working directory is the directory containing libvlc.dll when you launch your executable.

I suspect this is part of Microsoft's push to add DRM restrictions even to unprotected audio and video paths, with the end goal being to have everyone switch to Linux. The clever ploy may work on me shortly.

The latest 0.8.6 activex source is here:

https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/b ... ame&desc=1

I know this sounds silly, but in your Prefences, Input/Codecs main page, Advanced options on, there's a "Stop time" field. You didn't save some value in there did you?

This is exactly what the new http://www.team-mediaportal.com TV server is meant to do. You have to use their TV server but can use VLC as the client. VLC doesn't have a well-developed TV (DirectShow) capture component right now, in particular it won't get audio with capture cards that send audio and...

It's probably best to do what you're doing (no re-compression) to save the video from the network onto your hard drive. Anything you do to reduce the file size will take a lot of CPU time and might make it impossible to keep up with the video stream from the network. Once the file is on your hard dr...

You can use dumpbin.exe /exports on libvlc.dll to get the functions that are exported and build your own .def file with the ordinals of the functions you want to import. Ignore all the functions that begin with an underscore: they're c++ mangled names that won't work from Borland C++. The other func...

I've been writing a player app and have found a few missing features I'd really like to see in the ActiveX API: in the video object: int VideoTrackCount (get) int VideoTrack (get, set) int GetVideoTrackId (int trackIndex) int SubtitleTrackCount (get) int SubtitleTrack (get, set) enum VlcAspectRatio ...

Those instructions re-encode the video into another file with a different video codec which is more widely supported than MJPEG, leaving the audio stream alone. If it works, great. MJPEG is stinky anyway, and is only used by cameras because they don't have much processing power to encode and also le...

I saw your post on the various x264 option issues. When the promised changes are entered perhaps you'd start a thread on the various encoding speed vs. image quality vs. bit-rate theories you've come up with. I'm just using the defaults.

Switching to dvdsimple fixed my problem, I guess it just didn't occur to me to try that radio button when figuring out the script by playing with the gui. Silly me. I have the DVD on my harddisk in its original form using a 3rd party ripper so VLC works fine for this task. The reason I wanted to use...

Further testing reveals that if I try to play or transcode a single title of a DVD at the end of the title VLC jumps to the DVD Menu and starts playing that. When transcoding (or re-encapsulating) a title the menu gets stuck on the end of the created file.

I tried to transcode the first title from a DVD to h.264 with the following command line: VLC dvd://"c:\abc\DVD\VIDEO_TS"@1 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mp4a,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=mp4,dst="c:\abc_1.mp4"}} This normally takes 3...

DJ, I don't think fixing this problem should in any way be a priority for the VLC devs. Using Outlook Express is an open invitation to malware writers so I don't have much sympathy there. However, the problem is almost certainly Windows MIME-type handling, which is different from file extension matc...

This may have something to do with the way VLC is handling command line arguments in Windows. The path to the temporary file that Outlook creates to launch a player is usually far down a directory tree with lots of spaces in the name, and VLC isn't the most robust in handling long command lines. I k...

I installed VLC as an Administrator, but I run as a normal User 99% of the time and have no problems playing/transcoding with VLC as a non-Admin.

First of all, fantastic work getting this improvement in. Finally videos from my home theatre capture program show the correct length in VLC, and the commercial detection bookmark file I've integrated with a VLC ActiveX player works correctly. I'm still having problems with videos created at a less ...

If you're in Windows, and can program, the ActiveX control will keep you informed of the current timestamp. I wrote a small app that creates an xml file with the timestamp when I stop playing and restarts me at the same place if I restart the video at a later time.

I've been writing a GUI for using VLC as a TV-connected video player, and since trying 0.8.6-test1 I had to re-write quite a bit of the code since the new ActiveX object model has significant improvements: It went very well, the new interface is a big improvement, but one function that I had in 0.8....

Microsoft had to cripple IE in this way because someone else (I forget who) owns the patent for the idea that you could put an object in a web page and have it automatically load and run.

Thank the software patent supporters.

I understand that trusting the end time-code is dangerous, but at this point VLC is only decoder out of dozens I've tried which gets the time wrong, and it gets it wrong on every single MPEG2 file I've ever tried. Sure an index would be the best solution, but in the meantime an option flag to indica...