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by Synetech
21 Jul 2019 18:26
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: VLC 3 corrupted video playback (not VLC 2 or lower)
Replies: 7
Views: 616

Re: VLC 3 corrupted video playback (not VLC 2 or lower)

Here's another one: mediafire.com/file/gffdik4idbggavj/VLC_3_Corruption_Problem.mp4

I'm using a laptop with Intel integrated graphics. Other video players use hardware acceleration as well without this issue.
by Synetech
04 Jan 2019 22:42
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: Saved window size/position includes chrome
Replies: 0
Views: 182

Saved window size/position includes chrome

A behavior of VLC that has been annoying for years is that it can't quite seem to save and restore the position of the window between sessions. One problem that sometimes happens is that each time you run it, it shrinks the window more and more. Another is that it is placed at the wrong place. The r...
by Synetech
01 Jan 2019 05:04
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: VLC 3 corrupted video playback (not VLC 2 or lower)
Replies: 7
Views: 616

Re: VLC 3 corrupted video playback (not VLC 2 or lower)

I found two videos that exhibit this behavior so far. The logs are each 30Kb (the post limit here is 2Kb): pastebin.com/4C83S2iw pastebin.com/q23A4U8n Here are the two clips: mediafire.com/file/jmytdb8xudcw78t They both work just fine in 1.1.11 and 2.2.8 and have corruption in 3.0.5. They're both h....
by Synetech
24 Dec 2018 22:15
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: VLC 3 corrupted video playback (not VLC 2 or lower)
Replies: 7
Views: 616

VLC 3 corrupted video playback (not VLC 2 or lower)

VLC 3 has an issue where for some videos, the picture gets garbled, then clears up, then repeats. The same videos play just fine in VLC 2 and lower. (I'm sure this has been reported before, but it's too hard to describe or pin-down so it's hard to search for existing threads. Hopefully this thread c...
by Synetech
24 Dec 2018 21:52
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: VLC 3+ snapshots with subtitles are wrong dimension
Replies: 0
Views: 185

VLC 3+ snapshots with subtitles are wrong dimension

In VLC 3, taking a snapshot while subtitles are active horizontally squishes the capture. Snapshots without subtitles are correct. In VLC 2 and below, snapshots are correct with or without subtitles. This behavior exists for DVDs and video files of all containers and encoders, as well as internal an...
by Synetech
24 Dec 2018 21:39
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: Snapshots without subtitles
Replies: 5
Views: 2579

Re: Snapshots without subtitles

there is a workaround with key remapping for Mac users. There should be an equivalent keyremapping applicaton for windows. AutoHotkey is good on Windows (and Linux). now everytime I press the "menu" button on my Apple Remote, BTT sends to VLC a: "S" (toggles subtitle track 1 to ...
by Synetech
03 Jun 2018 00:27
Forum: VLC media player for Linux and friends Troubleshooting
Topic: Subtitle position not working properly
Replies: 1
Views: 4195

Re: Subtitle position not working properly

It's because you have set a negative value for the subtitle position and version 3+ uses negative values as relative to the top of the screen. That's good, but it also makes it impossible to lower the subs below the (too-high) default. I have always set it to -80px so that it is flush with the botto...
by Synetech
20 Sep 2015 06:30
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: display title & chapter numbers for DVD ?
Replies: 13
Views: 13613

Re: display title & chapter numbers for DVD ?

You can get them easily, not in the toolbar. Exactly. This basic information is indeed available, but only by jumping through hoops. Worse, when you right-click the video and select a sub-menu, it often ends up opening a different sub-menu before you can select a sub-sub-menu, so in addition to hav...
by Synetech
23 Jul 2015 15:44
Forum: General VLC media player Troubleshooting
Topic: Random ugly fat gray illegible subtitles (Pride and Glory)
Replies: 30
Views: 95756

Re: Random ugly fat gray illegible subtitles (Pride and Glor

I suspect mastermik125 above has provided enough info as to exactly what's causing it, and it seems to mostly (only?) be an issue with Warner Bros DVDs. Hmm, there definitely does seem to be a pattern. I just had this issue again with Argo which is indeed a WB movie. I did not notice any logos for ...
by Synetech
22 Jul 2015 20:49
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: DVD titles (volume-labels) are not used
Replies: 1
Views: 394

DVD titles (volume-labels) are not used

When playing a video file, VLC will correctly list the filename (or title extracted from the file) in the title-bar of its window and use it in snapshot filenames in place of the $N variable, but not with DVDs. When playing a DVD, it will detect the disc’s volume-label (e.g., in the Open Media dialo...
by Synetech
22 Jul 2015 20:15
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: display title & chapter numbers for DVD ?
Replies: 13
Views: 13613

Re: display title & chapter numbers for DVD ?

the only way that I can see of finding current title & chapter values during DVD playback is to go to playback drop down menu - then to sub menus ( twice) to see what is highlighted for each of title & chapter. is there a quicker / easier way to get this info on screen or into main toolbar ...
by Synetech
18 Oct 2014 18:44
Forum: VLC media player Feature Requests
Topic: Youtube DASH - Load audio .m4a for companion .mp4 video
Replies: 11
Views: 7506

Re: Youtube DASH - Load audio .m4a for companion .mp4 video

It auto adjusts if the quality is set to "auto", if you set it to just "720p" then it'll only buffer that, but it still won't buffer all the way which is stupid. Oh okay, I didn’t even notice there was an auto-quality setting. I use YouTube Center to always force 240p since that...
by Synetech
18 Oct 2014 17:00
Forum: VLC media player Feature Requests
Topic: Youtube DASH - Load audio .m4a for companion .mp4 video
Replies: 11
Views: 7506

Re: Youtube DASH - Load audio .m4a for companion .mp4 video

It's not to discourage downloading, that's just a nice coincidence for them. DASH playback is Youtube's form of adaptive video streaming. Having two separate streams for Video and Audio allows the player to buffer 1 audio track, but change the video quality on the fly without interrupting playback....
by Synetech
11 Oct 2014 17:10
Forum: VLC media player Feature Requests
Topic: Youtube DASH - Load audio .m4a for companion .mp4 video
Replies: 11
Views: 7506

Re: Youtube DASH - Load audio .m4a for companion .mp4 video

I wonder why youtube began to serve their videos in two streams (dash case)? what were the reasons? Probably to discourage people downloading the videos. They prefer people to waste bandwidth (on both sides) to watch videos online so that Google can profit from ads (assuming you haven’t blocked the...
by Synetech
07 Sep 2014 21:17
Forum: VLC media player Feature Requests
Topic: Youtube DASH - Load audio .m4a for companion .mp4 video
Replies: 11
Views: 7506

Re: Youtube DASH - Load audio .m4a for companion .mp4 video

Raccoon’s idea is good, it is just like how VLC loads subtitles. It has nothing to do with Youtube, they just happen to be the current use-case scenario, otherwise this could apply to any video/audio pair.
by Synetech
03 Sep 2014 23:13
Forum: VLC media player Feature Requests
Topic: “Magnet Subtitle Positioning”
Replies: 0
Views: 495

“Magnet Subtitle Positioning”

It is very annoying when watching a movie or something with subtitles on and the subtitles obscure the picture. Subtitles are supposed to be sub -titles, as in below the picture, or above the picture, but certainly not on top of the picture. Manually setting the subtitle position is no good because ...
by Synetech
19 Aug 2014 03:36
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: Subtitle offset (forced position) doesn’t work when cropped
Replies: 1
Views: 1859

Re: Subtitle offset (forced position) doesn’t work when crop

It happened again. I was trying to watch Exodus (which is an old movie), but because the movie has a letterbox built into the picture, I had to crop to 16:9 to get it to show full-screen, but that completely cut out the subtitles which made it really hard to watch because the audio is a little flat ...
by Synetech
26 Apr 2014 17:45
Forum: VLC media player Feature Requests
Topic: Toggleable Options to Remove VLC from Taskbar & Alt-Tab List
Replies: 7
Views: 1972

Re: Toggleable Options to Remove VLC from Taskbar & Alt-Tab

Of course, it's an open source tool, with a small team. So features that are very rare or not really mainstream do not get selected by the core team. Fair enough, but this is hardly rare; the ability to have the player sit unobtrusively in the corner of the screen without being in the taskbar or Al...
by Synetech
26 Apr 2014 17:42
Forum: VLC media player Feature Requests
Topic: Windows 7+VLC
Replies: 9
Views: 3383

Re: Windows 7+VLC

Code it. I think it's a bad idea and distracting. Again, just because it’s distracting to you doesn’t mean that nobody else wants it (otherwise this thread wouldn’t even exist). Like I said, the solution is to simply make it disabled by default, and that goes for any and all options which you think...
by Synetech
14 Apr 2014 21:20
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: Subtitle offset (forced position) doesn’t work when cropped
Replies: 1
Views: 1859

Subtitle offset (forced position) doesn’t work when cropped

If you crop the video, then the subtitle offset (forced position) is completely ignored. This is really frustrating because the subtitles are then cut off. For example, I am trying to watch Quiz Show . The movie is widescreen, but it is old, so when they made the DVD, they made it fullscreen. That i...
by Synetech
14 Apr 2014 21:00
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: Problem with crop and subtitles in VLC media player
Replies: 3
Views: 3713

Re: Problem with crop and subtitles in VLC media player

You have to change subtitle position from VLC settings. (You can also setup hotkeys for subtitle up and down) That’s the wrong way to do it; the user shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to do something that should be obvious and automatic. The correct way to fix this issue (and it is still an issu...
by Synetech
09 Apr 2014 19:43
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?
Replies: 9
Views: 1841

Re: Enabling the taskbar progress indicator?

It would be annoying, since a media player icon would almost always have it running and it is distracting. Ah ha! I knew I had seen this topic before. Like I said in the other thread, just because you may find it distracting is not a good excuse to prevent everybody from having it. Just make it def...
by Synetech
09 Apr 2014 19:41
Forum: VLC media player Feature Requests
Topic: Windows 7+VLC
Replies: 9
Views: 3383

Re: Windows 7+VLC

- Progress indicator: no way, it is confusing. To whom? Just because some people may not like it does not mean that everybody should be purposely deprived of it. Simply make it default to being off, then anyone who gets “confused” by it or finds it distracting or whatever won’t even notice it exist...
by Synetech
26 Mar 2014 04:26
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: Volume Adjustment Affects Mute Incorrectly
Replies: 0
Views: 364

Volume Adjustment Affects Mute Incorrectly

In VLC 1.x, adjusting the volume in either direction would un-mute, and in VLC 2.x, neither direction un-mutes. Both methods are half-correct and half-incorrect. It is convention that when something is muted, pressing volume-down leaves it muted, but pressing volume-up un -mutes it. This is logical ...
by Synetech
26 Mar 2014 04:12
Forum: VLC media player for Windows Troubleshooting
Topic: Resize Delay When Leaving Fullscreen in 2.x
Replies: 0
Views: 310

Resize Delay When Leaving Fullscreen in 2.x

With VLC 2.x, whenever the video is switched to fullscreen, it resizes just fine, but when it is switched out of fullscreen , there is a delay (~0.5~2 seconds) before the video is resized back down to the window. Here are some observations: The delay is much shorter ( almost , but not quite unnotice...

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