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Hi all, I just made the following patch (not yet committed) : - a loop parameter is added (default value is 0, meaning infinite number of loops) - the last frame becomes the static image once the animation is over. - animation is automatically started again when visibility is toggled for the control...

Hotkeys should work with skins exactly as they work with qt4 interface. (same keys, same actions)
The hotkeys susbsystem is independent of the GUI interface.

OS ? vlc version ? you may be using a wrong or broken version.

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Is there the possibility to let the window move automatically to the horizontal center and vertical bottom of the screen? Okay. not yet implemented, but it could indeed be an option. In today's implementation, the fullscreen controller position is saved when quitting vlc. Is there the possibility t...

Hi skins devs and others, A proposal for a skinnable fullscreen controller has just been committed in the dev branch (v1.1) Skins devs who wish to add a fullscreen controller to their skins will be able to implement one more window in theme.xml. This window just needs to be declared with id="fu...

Your're right. this "little feature" is not as straightforward as one could think. at first sight, I would say: - after a certain number of loops, a animated bitmap is just transformed into a static bitmap, using let's say, the first subimage of the series of nbFrames images. - the timer s...

this feature request makes sense. It can be added to the TODO list .... when I have some time, I will look at it.

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Yes, it's weird, and the culprit seems to be the qt4 dialog provider : in modules/gui/qt4/dialogs_provider.cpp : switch( de->i_dialog ) { case INTF_DIALOG_FILE_SIMPLE: case INTF_DIALOG_FILE: openDialog(); break; case INTF_DIALOG_FILE_GENERIC: fileSimple() and file() actually end up executing the sam...

Weird, indeed. And not easy to figure out, as neither WinXP or wine(Linux) have this problem. @xanax : do you still have the navaga skins you sent me (the one with the nbFrames syntax error). I am curious to know if this skins (where animated bitmaps were in fact disabled) also shows the problem. By...

Thanks aLtgLasS , that's interesting. I've got some more questions if somebody can test them (I've got no Windows7 at hand) - Is it only the video window that shows the problem ? What about the playlist windows ? - Does other skins also show this problem or just Navaga ? - is it only those bitmaps t...

Actually, AlphaBlend is found, but a call to this function returns false. if( AlphaBlend && !AlphaBlend( m_hDC, xDest, yDest, width, height, hDC, 0, 0, width, height, bf ) ) { msg_Err( getIntf(), "AlphaBlend() failed" ); } MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/dd183351%28en...

Thanks for your inputs. I'm afraid you just discovered a bug related to your Windows7 being a 64 bit OS. The problem is the following : skins2 error: AlphaBlend() failed skins2 error: AlphaBlend() failed skins2 error: AlphaBlend() failed in the source code, a 'msimg32.dll' dll is explicitly loaded. ...

I experienced this very problem on Linux with some ffmpeg svn version a while ago. It seems the libswscale library that scales bitmaps to fit a given window frame fails to do the job. If so, 'vlc --verbose 2' should be helpful But, whether on Linux (latest git for vlc and svn for ffmpeg) or on Windo...

In vlc1.0, as long as the various items of your playlist are similar (same height, width and chroma), you won't have any such problem. BUT, if those are heterogeneous items (different size or chroma), vlc resets the vout submodule when transitioning from one item to the next. This results in the beh...

In vlc1.0.x, for vlc never to resize the main window (qt4 interface), you can do two things (both in first panel of preferences) :

- uncheck "Resize interface to video Size".
- select "Complete" as display_mode.

Erwan10

The following command for the rc interface has been tested successfully on WindowsNT and vlc1.0.3 :
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Would you put that on a public webpage? As I see it, it would open up for anyone to send commands to your vlc? No, it doesn't ... php is run on your server (only 127.0.0.1 is used). End users on the public domain won't be able to issue commands for vlc. They even have no means to know that you're u...

Actually, I got something running on Windows with wampserver2.0 (Apache2.2) and vlc1.0.3 Here is the bat script : PATH=D:\tmp\vlc\vlc-1.0.3-win32\vlc-1.0.3;%PATH% cd D:\tmp\vlc\vlc-1.0.3-win32\vlc-1.0.3 vlc -vv --ignore-config -I rc --rc-host 127.0.0.1:1234 --vout dummy --snapshot-path F:\\MyProject...

Question: Can I somehow modify the conf so I also see a still picture at http://localhost/cam0.jpg? The picture should be the most recent frame, so when I press F5 in the browse, I should see a new picture. I found a solution to your question for Linux (should also work on Windows with some changes...

This is a known limitation.

As of today, only image files that have got no prefix can be detected by the fake demux and then displayed as still images.

images adressed in the form of file://image.jpg or http://image.jpg are run as video files, and result in a fleeting image being displayed.

This is a known problem, it occured when making the video behaviour in skins mode more stable, I think it'll be changed in the next version. Until now, use a skin that provides a video control, like the default skin. Next version will have it, and those who wish to test it can already download a re...

This is a known limitation. Up to now, an image is stored in a playlist with a file:// prepended to its name. When it is read again, vlc sees it as a video file with a zero size instead of a still image. Btw, you can also drap&drop still images on vlc and the 10 second default can be configured ...

points 3/ and 5/ were known bugs in vlc 0.9.X and have been corrected in vlc 1.0.

When using skins, I strongly advice you to use vlc1.0 (corrects a whole bunch of bugs)

Erwan10

a few vlc skins already display audio bit-rate and sample-rate on the main window (see for instance chaos, Modern, Colibri2, ...)

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Ok, changes committed tonight on both vlc1.0 and vlc11 branches (tested on Linux, but should work on Windows too.)

Nightly builds should be available as soon as tomorrow. Feel free to test and comment if needed.

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No, nothing is done so far

@jb and aLtgLasS ..... do you think it is something that should be included in vlc1.0.3 ? (not much work, just a "political" decision)

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