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I don't seem to have that issue with VLC 3.0.3 when using the trackpad of a mid-2012 MacBook Pro Retina running macOS 10.13.6: the horizontal and vertical two-finger gestures work for me as described both in windowed and in full-screen modes. Could it be some VLC, user or system-wide customization (...

I believe that libmpeg2 is in charge of decoding MPEG-2 streams. Given your file's extension it would seem that the video is within an MPEG-2 Transport Stream container. If so, unless VLC has an alternative library for decoding such media, disabling libmpeg2 (which can be done when building VLC from...

I have duplicated a .mp4 a couple of dozen times, dragged the file list into VLC 2.2.5.1 (using macOS Sierra 10.12.5 on a MacBook Pro Retina, Mid 2012), jumped forward from a playing video to the following one using Next (both from the menu, using keyboard shortcuts and using the fast forward arrow,...

They do look familiar. When I saw the ticket's description (Videotoolbox-related) I tried hardware-disabled playback (using “VLC -vvv --codec="avcodec,none"” as you suggested to me with the flickering issue) and the video played fine; that would also explain why I am not seeing the problem...

Hi, When I was looking for videos triggering a flickering issue I was experiencing, I came across a couple that on my system display mostly in green since VLC-3.0.0-20170421-0445. Steps to reproduce: Download a recent VLC nightly, starting with build 3.0.0-20170421-0445 Visit the Kodi samples page a...

It does indeed seem that native resolution is the term to use when talking about the LCD's physical properties, and that what you are looking for is a 1:1 pixel mapping. There are third party utilities that allow setting the logical resolution of a Mac's screen to the native one of the display, whic...

I hadn't updated VLC until today yet it seems that the day after the last post a patch landed that fixed the issue (commit 46a04850f90134b01074205dc8126d0f60292672). Thanks!

It is likely that the aspect ratio (the proportion between the width and height of the image) defined in that recording is not the correct one. Under the Video menu you have several aspect ratios to choose from in order to override the one detected (the 4:3 one is what standard television used, so i...

VLC's behaviour seems to be to act in the same way the rest of video players do, using the logical resolution of the screen (which is ordinarily lower than the physical one — half on each dimension by default for Retina displays, I believe — which is why the videos appear larger that you would like)...

I believe that the change was intentional . I haven't personally found an issue on how it used to work (for example, if the video is large and hides the main window you can simply drag the video out of the way on current VLC versions[*]), but I imagine that the decision was not taken on a whim, so i...

Using a single machine, If I configure Kodi 17.3 to act as UPnP / DLNA server, VLC (both the 2.2.5.1 release and recent 3.0.0 nightlies) can browse and play its contents; testing this would seem an easy first test to check that your macOS VLC can talk with that particular UPnP / DLNA implementation....

Disabling hardware decoding as proposed is indeed a workaround for the described issue (as well as the one mentioned in the footnote).

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here might relate to the following problem. When I attempt to use current VLC 3.0.0 nightlies to play certain videos the main window does two things: it starts flickering (between what seems solid black or solid white and whatever it the window was showing before—such a...

By screencapping do you mean taking image snapshots of the video being played, as can be done through the video menu, or is it some other procedure (perhaps capturing sections of the video) that absolutely requires using a shortcut? I suggest that you open the messages window, try taking a ‘screenca...

It also happens on Windows but apparently not on Ubuntu. I have reported the behaviour in ticket 18245.

I believe that whether adjusting subtitles is possible or not depends on the subtitle type (it would be impossible if the subtitles were hardcoded, i.e. part of the video frame, but it might also be problematic with soft subtitles). You could open the Media Information window and share the details o...

Perhaps whatever is the issue VLC is having with those files has been solved in an unreleased version, so you could try out your luck using a recent VLC nightly . If that doesn't work, I guess that it would be necessary to look into the problematic videos themselves. If it is not appropriate or poss...

I believe that when you transcode using an MP4/MOV encapsulation the .m4v file is an MPEG-4 (part 14?) container, so if the operation was successful, simply changing the extension to .mp4 might work, as long as the output video and audio formats are readable by Final Cut Pro.

Out of curiosity I downloaded Kodi 17.1. I can reproduce local files using it but I see no built-in way to make it play videos using VLC. As for sports highlights, I believe that there are several Kodi add-ons that match that description, but I don't know enough about the program to know which to ch...

Hi, I am experiencing the following behaviour: since version 3.0.0-20170405-0445 of the macOS VLC nightlies the first encountered subtitle of some .MKV files is not displayed. Steps to reproduce: Download a VLC nightly starting from version 3.0.0-20170405-0445 (also tested with the latest nightly at...

How do the subsequent runs work? Fine, both after restarting and with a couple of different soft-subbed MKV files: the fontcache files are checked and there is no access to the fonts directory. Changing the font cache directory back to being read-only and even making the files belong to root (like ...

No fontcache could be created: the /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig mode is 755 for root:wheel. I now realize that the fd returned for the cache files was -1, which I assume means that they failed to be opened (in rw mode), so your hunch about the source of the problem seems correct. A chmod o+w on the...

Can you check that a fontconfig cache file is created somewhere? Examining the file activity on a running VLC (a subtitled file had already been read) process through Instruments, I see the folllowing: The subtitled MKV is read. A /usr/X11/var/cache/fontconfig file with a seemingly random name is o...

On my machine (Intel Macbook with Mac OS X 10.4.11) the opposite has happened (unless a reboot is necessary): fullscreen does not work on the secondary monitor with VLC 0.8.6e whereas I had no problems when using 0.8.6d. I thought I had deleted the preferences after having erased a file named ~/Lib...

Well.. on my machine, it started working again after the VLC 0.8.6e was installed. On my machine (Intel Macbook with Mac OS X 10.4.11) the opposite has happened (unless a reboot is necessary): fullscreen does not work on the secondary monitor with VLC 0.8.6e whereas I had no problems when using 0.8...