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I submitted the latest 1.1 installer to VirusTotal and got two detections. Antiy-AVL 2.0.3.7 2010.07.15 Trojan/Win32.TDSS.gen TheHacker 6.5.2.1.320 2010.07.19 Trojan/TDSS.binb Appears to be the same malware detected by both scanners. While I'm sure this is probably a false detection, it should be in...

I have a bunch of videos that have an incorrect playback speed. I went to use VLC to play them at a reduced speed setting, and found out that VLC has fancy-dancy audio stretching that keeps the audio at the same pitch regardless of playback speed. Is there a way for VLC to play back at a different s...

Ya, uninstalling and reinstalling did the trick. Don't know what was different between that and telling VLC to reset its preferences to defaults, but it works now.

Thanks.

My mouse driver developed a bug between 0.9.2 and 0.9.4? Unlikely.

That's correct. No matter what I do, I cannot get the pop-up controls to appear in 0.9.4. Not since I upgraded from 0.9.2. I've turned off and on the setting for it in the preferences, and also set the preferences to defaults. Nothing seems to work.

In 0.9.4 I can't get the full-screen controls to pop up at all. So I guess this bug was fixed.

I have the need to be able to launch VLC to handle MMSH: URLs. As it stands, VLC doesn't install a protocol handler for this. Has anyone got this to work? I see links to many people asking, and one old firefox-specific method for fixing that doesn't work any more, but nothing Windows specific that a...

I have been curious for a while about VLC's logo. Specifically, I am wondering what it is supposed to be. The fact that the mouth on it, and the fact that VLC is generally associated with movie playing makes me believe that the intention was for it to be an old-fashioned movie director's megaphone. ...

This causes VLC to alter the frame rate of the source. This might work around the bug, but it also causes poorer quality output. It means a loss of about one in every six frames and inter-frame timing for the rest of the frames is then off by 16% of what the original was. This causes a noticable stu...

I have just tested 0.8.5-test4, and this bug still exists.

No offense, but I'm feeling like a broken record being the only one posting in this thread. Is there a bug tracking system for VLC? Is there any way I can tell that someone official has even taken notice of the report?

My guess is that what VLC calls transcoding is required for playback to anything but the computer monitor Not normally, no. Normal playback and streaming are totally separate in VLC. If you are playing a video, even if you are playing it to a TV output, no reencoding of the video is required. Here ...

This doesn't affect playback - only streaming/transcoding. VLC will play NTSC frame rates at no problem. It's only when you try and encode with the mp1v/mp2v codecs that the problem shows. The only time playback woult be affected is if you are trying to view the video at the same time you are transc...

I would like to suggest directshow and/or vfw input plugins for video and an acm input plugin for audio under Windows platforms. They could be placed lowest on VLC's priority so that they are only used if none of VLC's other internal codec plugins can decode the incoming video or audio streams.

First of all, have you tried the skinned interface rather than the simple wxWidgets one? Second of all, when you are watching a video, do you look at the video player's interface, or are you watching the video? The best thing about VLC is its ability to take a video stream from almost any source and...

I can press play/pause and not have any noticable lag. You might be running into the time it takes for a CD or DVD drive to spin up.

It will be a lot easier to uninstall and reinstall without the link.

For each and every video extension, delete the keys:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\(extension)\shell\PlayWithVLC
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\(extension)\shell\AddToPlaylistVLC

Make sure you don't miss any extensions.

@Reven: can you tell us a bit more about this bug? I've never heard about this before. In all versions I've tested (0.8.2, 0.8.4test1a), no video frames will be output during a stream/transcode if the input video source has a frame rate greater than 25fps when either the mp1v or mp2v codecs are use...

Keep in mind that an aparent bug in VLC prevents you from writing mpeg1/2 at more than 25fps. Bad news if you are in North America.

VLC does not make use of VFW or ACM system codecs in Windows. VLC makes use only of whatever codecs are built-in to it. Thus, if a particular file won't play in VLC, or is missing audio or video, there is nothing you can do. You cannot install a codec to fix the issue. This has good and bad points. ...

Searching through the forums, I found someone else who reported encoding problems with mp1v at frame rates higher than 25 fps, so I decided to check to see if that was the problem I was seeing, and it was. It seems that both the mp1v and mp2v simply refuse to output if the frame rate is higher than ...

I have just started doing a lot of video capture. I found one little annoyance in VLC's gui is the requirement when opening a capture stream, I have to click on the refresh list buttons for the video and audio device name dropdown combo boxes. It would be nice if that was done automatically when the...

[edit: The original subject was "Problems encoding mp1v/mp2v with certain video sources", but as discovered the source of the problem was the frame rate, I changed the title.] I have had problems encoding mpeg videos. With certain inputs, mpeg encoding works fine. With others, I cannot get...

This thread really belongs in the Windows forum. That being said... The binaries that are shipped are not Cygwin - they were made with MinGW. Cygwin is nice, but not practical for production purposes. There are obviously automated scripts (the daily builds) used to build VLC in a MinGW environment. ...

There isn't any way that I know of to directly do what you are asking. VLC cannot use any installed system codecs - it is multi-platform and doesn't support using any particular OS's installed codecs. There should be no issue with including an XViD library with VLC, though. That has my vote - I pers...