problems with 0.8.4-test1a

[eblade]

I have just recently started using VLC on my primary computer, as I decided that it was probably the secondary computer that was making it run like garbage. (the other computer has some serious power issues, and VLC is unusable on it) .. and, I've noticed the following problems:

(1) In wxWidgets mode, when listening to streaming audio from a Shoutcast server, every few songs, or perhaps every few times it's brought to the foreground, the volume slider will move 4 pixels (or so) to the right. Eventually, it slides off the window. Resizing the window finds it, then it moves off again. Having left it play all last night, the volume control was nowhere to be found when I went looking for it again.
- Switching to skins2 then back to wxWidgets returns the volume to it's proper place
- Using skins2 is not such a great option, as when listening to streaming audio, none of the skins seem to support showing the title of what you're listening to. Telling me I'm listening to http://65.192.146.318:8293/ is totally useless.
- The available skins all do to VLC what shouldn't be done: turn it into some bizarro weird application with a totally different interface than any other type of program. This is part of the reason I want to use VLC, is because it doesn't look like someone's trying to make the media player look like a cool appliance, rather than the program that it is. (and they also turn all the fonts to a rather unreadable size)

(2) Integration of Service Discovery and the Playlist is a really bad thing. The service discovery should be in a totally different place, with an option to add things you find there to the playlist. Having a 3000+ entry playlist, which I'm searching through to find things that I like, then finding no way to store just the things that I like, is bad. Also the fact that while VLC is playing that stream, the window wants to make sure you can see that entry in the playlist every 10-20 seconds or so, means that you're uselessly scrolling around because your position in the playlist window will change constantly, unless you stop the player. It makes it impossible to play a stream, and look for another stream you might like, as well.

(3) The playlist is lacking of necessary components, such as "search for media", or even "add directory" with a recursive option.
- Removing 2990 or so of the 3000+ entries that service discovery dumped into my playlist took my 1.8GHz machine with 768MB ram nearly 30 minutes before VLC would start responding to requests again.
- The skins that I attempted to use briefly made the playlist even less functional than it already is

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I saw no other place to provide feedback, so I'm guessing that this is the place.

[eblade]

Is there any way to do freeze frame video in VLC? A frame forward/frame backward would be insanely useful, and I can't seem to find it on ANY Windows video players.

[eblade]

One more question, as well.

Since WMP does not play audio on some files, or not play video on some other files, on this computer, and VLC does seem to play ALL of them, is there some way to install VLC as a plugin to IE and the other browsers?

[eblade]

I think I nailed it down more specifically while attempting to freeze frame part of this week's Lost episode...

Every time "Pause" is pressed in the wxWidgets interface, the volume slider moves about 5 pixels to the right.

[xtophe]

The volume slider problem has been fixed since test1.

It is possible to use VLC in Ie or mozilla or firefox just rerun the installer and select them.

which service discovery do you use with 3000 entries ?
I think service discovery should stay in the playlist and user should have reasonable expectations. Sort your movies/audio and just open the good folder ( btw, there is an add folder command) or make playlist and save them.

[eblade]

Yes, there is an add folder command, but it's not recursive.

The Shoutcast discovery that comes default with it, loads up over 3000 entries. And then, after you delete all the entries you don't want (in my case 2995 or so), it repopulates them the next time you load, even if you have service discovery turned off, unless you erase all of them.

Solution: go to each website, download their wmp playlist data, and save that.

The playlist should be for things you want to play. Shoving 2995 things I don't want to play into it for me automatically is asinine. Should have a seperate window, where you can play a stream, and then select "Add to Playlist" if you want it.

[revetwelch]

Is there any way to do freeze frame video in VLC? A frame forward/frame backward would be insanely useful, and I can't seem to find it on ANY Windows video players.

See:
viewtopic.php?t=12802&highlight=frame