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Has anyone tried running VLC on the Asus Eee PC?

FYI There was a bug in my NativeLibVlc class that I fixed recently: the Stop function was actually calling Pause. This led to the inability to properly clear the playlist and occasion bugs where a new item would be added to the playlist but then the previous item would play instead. It is around lin...

I have a similar problem with filenames that have French-accented characters in them on my English Windows XP machine: Vlc just won't open the file. I think it isn't doing the unicode->user-code-page conversion correctly so that when it tries to do the reverse conversion when asking the Windows file...

VLC doesn't know how long an item is, or how to seek within it, till it's started. You have to wait till you see the status is playing before you can set the time. Vlc is multi-threaded, so it's an asynchronous thing you have to poll for. You can try using a parameter in the AddTarget call: "--...

Config variables are foir a few special cases of VideoLAN settings that can be set globally. I've never used them myself but someone on the forums asked me to add the functions so I did. I've always put options in the options array when adding an item to the playlist. Look at the Advanced Long Help ...

Is there any way I can get 2 audio tracks into an MPEG TS using VLC? Or some other application that you know of, DJ? I can do 1 audio track fine. VideoHelp.com wasn't much help on this question.

I'd like to create a file with the main movie, several audio tracks and a (.srt type) subtitle track created by SubRip from a Dvd. I'm pretty familiar with VLC and can extract an MPEG PS or TS file with a single video and audio track quite easily. I also know how to extract a 2nd audio track using R...

This is just sad. Are you telling me that if you made a .cmd file with just "C:\Program Files\VideoLan\vlc\vlc.exe" %1 --audio-track=2 and dropped the file on the icon it plays fine, with the audio track you want, but when you add the transcode parameters it somehow fails? I assumed you go...

Read the manual that came with your DVD player, or look up the player model on the web of course.

If I wanted to start track 3 of my dvd from the hard-disk directory "x:\three times" I'd add the following mrl to the playlist:

dvdsimple://"X:\Three Times"@3

Note the careful use of quotes.

To start at chapter 2 would be:

dvdsimple://"X:\Three Times"@3:2

--audio-track=2 should be outside the #transcode block, just before vlc:quit. That was probably the problem all along with audio. Oh and --no-video needs to be outside as well. And you can't put just audio in a PS encapsulation. I'd say go back to: "C:\Program Files\VideoLan\vlc\vlc.exe" %...

I'm not sure VLC is clever enough to do partial extracts from a DVD track. Try converting to an MPEG PS file as an intermediate step. The quality will be the same, just leave the trans-code video and audio sections disabled and pick MPEG PS encapsulation in the wizard. Save to a file with extension ...

There have been people who've compiled VLC under windows without using the Unix emulation libraries but it requires editing the code a fair bit. The developers aren't interested in this, so you'll have to search the forums for more information. This isn't a supported way to build.

I've never heard of this bug before. It may be a problem with your video card drivers or DirectX version. What are your system specs? Some video cards require that directx windows be sized to a perfect power of 2 (2, 4, 8, 16, etc). VLC may not know this. Can you resize the window to see the subtitl...

The only time I've seen this is when the cable from my computer to the monitor is loose or a pin is bent.

If you have a bad subtitle - start or end time too big or small - VLC will lose the ability to display subs at all. I'd open the .srt file in a text editor and check around 1:30 for a bad entry. Simple overlapping won't cause VLC to fail, though you should probably clean that up, but if one entry ha...

Saving track 3 of a CD in my E: drive to a file z:\test.wav would look like this:

Add --audio-track=1 to the conversion. Or 0 or 2, whatever's right for your file. The command-line arguments are numerous but worthwhile learning to search if you're going to use the tool.

Since Deinterlace was moved to the new style filter and the rest left as the old style they don't cascade properly any more. It's a programming problem. You can't Crop and Deinterlace either, for example.

The short answer is to wait for me to write the code, or look at the ActiveX source code and move that to C# yourself. I haven't looked into Messages.

Sorry I don't do VB.NET, but in C# you'd create a new Windows Application project named Foo and save it. Then copy VLanControl.dll, VLanControl.pdb, libvlc.dll, and the plugins directory to the Foo\Foo\bin\Debug directory of the new project. Add a reference to VLanControl.dll in the new project by B...

Well I think if there's only 1 program Id it doesn't show up on the menu and you can just leave off that parameter. Some of my HDTV ts files have that problem and I thought your issue with other video software was related to it. If there's only 1 program in the stream just drop the video file on the...

I've put a sample C# project which uses libvlc.dll in the wiki http://wiki.videolan.org/.Net_Interface_to_VLC. It's quite a bit of work to call libvlc from .Net.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/batchcmds.htm

It will tell you to use "%~p1%~n1.ts" instead of "D:\MyVideos\DreamShare\stream.ts"