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This is a strange result. Everything in IE does sort of live in a sandbox, and I wonder if something is configuring DirectX differently when VLC is running as a dll in the IE process space. Your video drivers might have profiles for certain applications where the gamma and other color adjustments ar...

In preferences, Advanced Settings (Advanced Options on) did you accidentally check "Allow only one running instance"? Subtitles have worked well for me in 0.8.6, better than 5. Of course all my subtitle files have the same name as the video file with .srt extension, so I haven't tested a l...

Pretty much a no. Time to dig out the mpeg-2 editor. Unless you really meant to say titles instead of chapters. VLC has no trouble pulling specific titles out of a DVD.

Other than making sure you're using DirectX output and turning off all deinterlacing and other filters, there's not much you can do. I think we can all agree that CoreAVC is a wonderfully efficient decoder. 720p h.264 on a Celeron is just amazing.

For me the subtitles menu item appears as a submenu of Video

Have you tried adding the parameters "gamma" (values 0-10) and/or "brightness" (values 0-2) to your object? (higher is brighter for both)

MAK if you're using this interface you can probably drop wxwidgets, skins2, x264 (no h.264 for you), freetype(if you don't care about sub-titles). Anything that has dvd in the name if you don't care about them.

I found this on the M$ website: The Default Interface Every public member (any member not marked as private or friend) of a class is part of that class's default interface. Important things to note about default interfaces: 1. The default interface of a class is the only interface that scripting lan...

sgross and osmanosman, I made a function that should work for setting config variables (see below). To do what osmanosman wanted, you'd call SetConfigVariable("motiondetect-history", "5"); This will only work after Initialization like everything else, so put calls to this functio...

nkarnold, I believe you need to set the parent of VLC to be your form and set its position and size to something reasonable, like ClientRectangle. Also, initialization of the native vlc only happens when the form the VlcUserControl is a child of is shown, so you can't do playlist calls immediately a...

I've had an issue with Chinese DVDs not showing subtitles at all as well. I was forced to rip mpgs from the DVD titles and use SubRip to create .SRT files with the subtitles.

The other players use codec packs, not VLC fortunately. Good luck sorting them out.

2^32 = 4294967296

I'd be willing to bet quite a bit that someone is multiplying the value by 1,000,000 in order to convert to micro-seconds and storing it in a 32-bit unsigned int.

The ActiveX control still supports the IVLCControl interface, it's just that the IVLCControl2 interface is now the default you get when you create the object. I'm not sure how you'd get Javascript to do the QueryInterface on the ActiveX object to give you the old interface to call though, sorry.

The following is the code that's handling your 2nd parameter from 0.8.6\activex\vlccontrol.cpp. It's passed in as a variable (VARIANT *options) and converting the SAFEARRAY to an array of C strings (char ***cOptions) of length (int *cOptionCount). Make a function around this code yourself and try it...

The 2nd parameter needs to be a zero-length SAFEARRAY of BSTRs wrapped in a VARIANT. I'm sorry but you'll have to look all that stuff up if you want to program ActiveX in C++. It's a giant pain, which is the main reason M$ moved to .Net.

VLC doesn't use the external codecs you were trying to tweak, they're all built-in so Sherlock and G-Spot just tell you what codecs will be used by DirectShow players and what the files were encoded with, not what VLC will use for decoding. For your performance problem, I'd check and see that in Pre...

A .cmd file will do the ripping for you: "C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\VLC.exe" %1 :no-sout-video :sout=#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=256,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=raw,dst="%~dpn1.mp3"} } vlc:quit Just save a track from the dvd as an mpg file and drop it on the .c...

Thank you DJ, I understand that will work for transcoding, but I'm just trying to play locally, and it doesn't work in that case.

I still don't know what format your files are in. Could you bring up the information window and copy that down here? I suppose I could give you a sample of the command-line arguments to transcode a file to mpeg-2 suitable for burning to DVD, specifying which audio track to use, but I don't even know...

If you really want Windows to do nothing when you insert a disc in the drive, follow the suggestions from
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-018

I strongly suggest that everyone do this to prevent nasty stuff like the Sony BMG rootkit installation from last year.

Not many containers accept multiple audio (or any subtitle) tracks that Vlc supports. I'm amazed that you accidentally got more than one audio track, amazed. 99.9% of the time the issue would be that you could only pick 1 audio track on a transcode. There's certainly easy command line parameters to ...

Whenever I turn on a de-interlace filter, the crop keys no longer work. My 1080i recorded TV shows need de-interlacing but also often have a couple rows of garbage pixels at the top and there's no way for me to fix both using Vlc that I can find. Any ideas? I tried using command line args like -crop...

Sometimes -- works with options, sometimes :. Try the time options starting with a colon instead.

To put the time overlay in the top center with moderate-high opacity and time format Hour:Minute:Second you'd add the following to the end of your command line. --time-opacity=200 --time-position=4 --time-format="%%H:%%M:%%S" Notice the %% instead of % which is necessary if this is in a Wi...