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What i did on my older windows2000 htpc: In VLC i select: Tools->preferences->Video->Output:OpenGL video output. Then i got treu graphics card hardwareacceleration for video to Monitor & my plasma tv(2nd monitor). To select video quality: go to graphics card settings. (select preformance to pla...

can VLc be configured to use the freeMPC video decoder & thus use suitable graphics card hardware decode for H264 ? No. is it even possible ? No. ok , thanks anyway, saves me wasting time tryinf to configure it. So - Q will hardware decode via graphics card (such as radeon HD series ) be suppor...

can VLc be configured to use the freeMPC video decoder & thus use suitable graphics card hardware decode for H264 ? I have MPCvideodec.ax registered on this PC & working with Zoom player ( where is does greatly reduce CPU usage) , but I can't see how to get it working with VLC - is it even p...

the default VLC layout is absolutely fine - I'd jsut like to make it x2 large when playing a music file !

because on a large screen ( 1680x1050) it appears quite small.

ok thanks for checking - I have put the "A" key for cycle through aspect ratios on my remote so I can quickly flick through the choices - I can live with that.

I'm now looking at a diferent file with possibly a different bug, It is a vob taken from a concert dvd 4:3 ratio and converted to avi with DIVX converter. but in this case the AVI also looks wrong. Gspot says it's now 13:10. (628x 480) but that the VOB was 4:3 (720 x 480 with par 0.89 ). I will reru...

Skins2 and default QT4 interface are two different interfaces modules for VLC. With Skins2 you can builds custom skins where you can naturally have e.g bigger play buttons. You can also customize QT4 interface via View -> Customize interface... but you really can't get any bigger buttons. OK thanks...

have to be a paid up member to upload on those ? Both are free. ok, I did not realise that. I am uploading a vob file to rapidshare. this is supposed to 4x3 aspect but appears vertically stretched in VLc - you'll see the differece if you force 4x3 in aspect raio controls. NB I should have picked a ...

Rapidshare or Megaupload or similar service is OK. have to be a paid up member to upload on those ? yousendit is free for up to 100mb but has to be for a specific recipient email address. maybe simpler for you to just test with any.VOB files you have to hand e.g. from inside any DVD video_TS folder

Those are the skins for skins2 interface. OK thanks - a bewilidering choice, but I don't see anything that is like the original, only bigger - they all seem to have same sized buttons ? to use a skin do I have to go to preferences- interface & tick skin2, or do I just select a skin from main pr...

1. Is skins2 interface OK for you?

I'm looking here at lots of skins but nothing called skin 2 ???
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php

You have some short sample file you could share to us?

unfortunately no nothign small enough to attach here - - I have some that are 4x3 aspect but which appear vertically stretched & which are just under 20Mb so I could send one of them to a given address via yousendit if that would help

is there a problem in 1.02 with .vob file default aspect ratio ? I am currently using a 2 step DVD to avi conversion process, which preserves original audio and which removes the annoying black bars from some DVd rips, that other rippers leave behind: step 1: I make vob from DVD files using VOB pass...

I am using VLC for MP3 playback, with a microsoft remote control, and/or with a logitech cordless trackball, + intelliremote software to control my remote interface. All this in Vista. two issues would make life easier. 1. a skin which has bigger start, stop etc buttons or an option to enlarge the d...

Hmm - I'm not quite there - here's my folder address: J:\Lessons\Guitar World - heroes (best of)\VIDEO_TS ( external HD) but I put vlc.exe dvd:// on the front of that & it doesnt work - needs some quotes maybe ? I get all this: playback failure: DVDRead could not open the disc "J:\Lessons\G...

I want to create some shortcuts with meaninful names, that will ,when clicked,play DVDsfrom a hard drive folder in VLC. I used to do this with Powerdvd & WMP by making & renaming a shortcut to the relevant Video_TS.ifo file in the VIdeo_TS folder but this does not work for VLC. I can make a ...

pressing many times too quickly and/or too often on next frame kills VLC - it freezes & has to be killed via task manager before it will work normally again.

overflowing key buffer issue ???

it seems that the save recent media list does not remember files that were played by double clicking on file name ( with VLC set to be the default for opening that file type)- it only remembers files opened from within the player or launched via drag & drop ? version 1.01 - windows xp. is this a...

VLC 1.01. video renderer dirext x ( i.e. the one which allows wallpaper mode). Xp pro - 1360 x 768 screen. playing xvid/divx .avi files I have VLC set to start in full screen & mostly it does that, no problem but occaisionally it takes over the full screen but then puts the video into top left h...

UPDATE this utility does the trick
http://www.themesheaven.com/2007/05/06/ ... avi-files/

I have to turn off the default "ask" setting for AVI files that VLC does not like, as it does not like most of my old ones. ( i.e. anything ripped from DVD with IMTOO software) ! It would be more satisfying though to run a repair process - in batch ideally as there are lots of files - so t...

there is a hot key for advanceing one frame at a time but I see no way of stepping backwards one frame at a time - is this possible. and is there any way to get some kind of slo motion forward & back onto the mouse wheel. I transpose a lot of music & this would be most helpful when working w...

Normal hotkeys only react when focus is on VLC itself. Global ones should work when VLC doesn't have focus (like when you play World of Warcraft).

thanks _ I thought it was something like that. but do VLC global keys last after I shut down VLC or only while VLC is still open ?

notepad++ or wordpad

thanks it IS readable in wordpad.

so what is the difference between setting a global hoteky & a regular one - let's say I make ENTER the regular hotkey for play/pause but make SPACE the global one - what have I then done & has it affected anything other than VLC ?

You can manually edit %appdata%\vlc\vlcrc with text editor and uncomment global-* options and assign keys to them.

thanks - I did not know that, but vlcrc is pretty unreadable in notepad - what text editor do you suggest ?