capture device clock reset

[airmanwrinkle]

Is there a way to reset the elapsed time count VLC shows for a capture device, such as a webcam, opened via the menu item Media-->Open Capture Device...? I would like VLC to restart the elapsed time at 0 each time I open a new stream.

Since I first began monitoring a USB webcam this way, I've noticed that the elapsed time does not begin at 0 each time I open the capture device or even each time I start VLC, but instead continues from a preexisting value. That preexisting value is greater each time, running up into the hundreds of hours, much longer than the time I've actually been streaming the captured video feed and much longer than I've had VLC open (unless, that is, a background process remains open even when I think I've completely exited VLC).

I can't say whether the clock will count up forever, into the thousands of hours and beyond, because the most recent time I opened this capture device I found the elapsed time at "just" 16 hours, suggesting that either some event reset the clock or it ran into a display limit and started over at 0 like an automobile odometer. The computer in question isn't restarted very often, and the user in question isn't logged out and back in very often, and those would seem reasonable events to suppose responsible for resetting the clock--but restarting does not reset the clock.

Thanks ahead for any help!

p.s.: This problem is also known in the Windows version of VLC, see viewtopic.php?f=14&t=108243

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

In VLC 2.0, the V4L time is the system uptime. In VLC 2.1, it was "corrected" to the time since starting the current capture.

[airmanwrinkle]

Aha, well I've got version 2.0.8 installed, so I'm delighted to learn I'll no longer have this issue when I upgrade to 2.1.

Very glad someone was aware of how it worked--thanks, Remi!