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autoscale is mostly useful in fullscreen mode (either the video scales to fill up the whole screen or remains at original size with black borders). Your concern is more about not resizing the window containing the video, and autoscale is not helpful in that matter. For your issue, on Linux or Window...

I'm trying to modify existing Skins with VLC Skin Editor 0.8.5, to disable the right click function on all of the area of the vlc main window. This is so that the default mini menu does not show. Don't want the Interface function enabled. As of today, right-clicking on an image control in a skins w...

I'm no expert in sound, but a quick look at the code shows the following: - qt4 : Volume ranges 0-200% or 0-400% depending whether the --qt-volume-complete parameter is turned off or on - skins2 : Volume only ranges 0-200% (the parameter is ignored) I guess one would expect skins and qt4 to address ...

Well, if many of you do think it is important to support old skins with respect to video, one thing is possible, which is to add a --no-skinned-video parameter. With this parameter, skins could simply deactivate video management, and fall back to the already existing vlc -I dummy behavior. Therefore...

Well, I would not say it doesn't work .... Audio works as it used to, and video is still available in fullscreen mode ('f' hotkey on the main skins window or right-click mouse). For a windowed video, the only viable solution is to implement it at the skins level (reuse the playlist bitmaps to decora...

The scroll bar can be deactivated ( Preferences / All / Input Codecs / Access modules/ Fake / Duration in ms = 0 ) You can also do it through the command line ( vlc --fake-duration 0 ). 0 means infinite ! For scaling, you can use the 'o', alt-'o' and alt-shift-'o' hotkeys. (especially when in fullsc...

This is a known issue. (and eligible for a trac entry)

Image are stored in playlist with the file:// prefix prepended to them. Once retrieved, they are regarded as video files.
For jpeg, it means a single picture and no length (fleeting display). For others (png,..), it means an error.

Erwan10

What do you mean with "cant see osd when using a skin" ? Can you elaborate a bit more ? To my knowledge, osd is a feature of the vlc core and works with skins as well as qt4 interface. (hotkeys use them for instance) If it refers to marquee, it can be reached with Interface / Effects and F...

try Alt-o and alt-shift-o to increase/decrease zoom in fullscreen mode

Erwan10

Some functions have just been added in the development branch (vlc1.1) New keywords are : - vlc.canRecord ( true if current video can be recorded / false otherwise ) - vlc.isRecording ( true if recording is underway / false otherwise) - vlc.toggleRecord() (function to toggle recording / no recording...

Well, there is the following solution that is meant to do what you wish, but it has side effects that are not very nice (especially when transitioning from one chapter to another in fullscreen mode) vlc --crop="4:3" --vout-filter="crop" --autocrop dvd://G: --vout-filter="cro...

The following code has been tested successfully on WinNT with latest vlc 1.0.2-git. You get a series of snapshot in png format under C:\
Erwan10

key-snapshot refers to the hotkey for taking snapshot (default is Shift-S) ! Not really useful in your case

If you want to take a series of snapshots, you can use the scene video filter (see vlc -H for options). You can also use --start-time to target the right part of your video.

Erwan10

On Linux or Windows (vlc1.0.x), the following settings (in first panel of preferences) can help you : - uncheck "Resize interface to video Size". - select "Complete" as display_mode. These settings allow you to resize vlc as you wish and not be bothered by automatic resizing. Erw...

By adding --sout-keep to your command, your should get a movie out of all the *.jpg concatenated.

Erwan10

Yes, these security measures are often very frustrating !

There is no workaround ... but to send a request for autocrop to be removed from the unsafe list !

Erwan10

Do you really need to change the aspect ratio parameter ? This parameter is only intended to force the original aspect ratio in case vlc failed to detect the right value. This should not occur that often ! (and anyway, this parameter can be passed as an option in libvlc_new if you really want to fix...

Hi, The following command line works on Linux with vlc1.0 (tested) and should also work for other platforms. command => vlc file.vob --vout-filter="crop" --autocrop The video starts with black borders and then resizes without black borders within 1 second. As for your tests, no conclusions...

Are you sure to properly close slider tags ..... <SLIDER .... /> means it doesn't expect </SLIDER>. Maybe there are some trailing / to remove, since sliderbackground must be within <slider> ... </slider> tags

Erwan10

Okay, I gave it a try on the latest vlc1.0.2-git ... but my results are a bit different With a simple .vob file (720x576 16:9 with black borders) command => vlc --aspect-ratio="5:4" file.vob Result is as expected (both playback and snapshot are 720x576 and black borders are exactly the sam...

You mean take snapshots of a video while it's being played back. (Video /Snapshot menu or Shift-S hotkey)

Erwan10

What do you mean "ajust the format to 5:4" ? You don't need to adjust format. Everything is taken care of automatically. 720x576 images come with a sar parameter that tells vlc how to stretch it in order to retrieve the original aspect ratio. Also, as it is done today, snapshots are always...

A few more remarks: - beware, new settings in preferences are taken into account only after you quit and restart vlc. - For vlc to really never change in size, two parameters can be used : - untick "Resize Interface to Video Size" so that video size doesn't take over - select "Complet...

720x480 is the resolution for standard TV in the US. But, your math is wrong, because those are not square pixels, and it is meant to be stretched to 4:3, so that the initial aspect ratio is preserved. Usually, such a resolution will be seen full screen without black bars only on 4:3 screen. On 16:9...

Yes, it is just code ! The key parameter is the resize parameter of an image tag (excerpt from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins2-create.html) resize Since VLC 0.8.2. Specify the behaviour of the image when it is resized. Possible values are 'mosaic' (the image is repeated as many times as necessary...