HOW DO I LOOP VIDEOS????? PLEASE HELP!

[samarastein]

Hi, I am making videos of houses for a real estate company and want to use VLC Media Player to loop the videos. I will have videos that are .avi and .mpeg.

I was using windows media player, but it wont loop .mpeg only the .avi files so I need to find a player that will loop both.

I am using Adobe Premier to make the videos or we are outsourcing them. I am on Windows Media Center OS.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated as my boss is riding me to get this figured out.

Thank you kindly!

[DJ]

Open your playlist and loop the set of videos or one video. If you save and name the playlist you can do just about anything again and again. If the order needs to be changed you can edit the playlist with a normal editor like note pad. The options are repeat all or repeat one. If you choose repeat one you will need to highlight it first. VLC will not care about mixed file types in the playlist.

[nonamevlc]

DJ,I think enabling Looping in VLC is a bit strange.

Lets say I want to loop a single file. Currently the way to do this is to open up the playlist manager (even if i have only one file) and press the repeat one button. This seems to be the only way to do it.

If I go to Settings->Preference->Playlist in the main menu & check the "Repeat all" & "Repeat current item" after I have opened a file in VLC,Still it doesnt loop the file.

Repeat function needs to be easy to do.Eg: Repeat button is there in the main player window in Winamp.

I hope future VLC versions make it easier.

[DJ]

Ya! I believe this was changed between 0.8.4 and 0.8.5 and the Preferences selection should be gone in 0.8.6 Playlists are also being rebuilt for 0.8.6 so you just need to cope for a while longer.

[nonamevlc]

Is there any tentative release date for 0.8.6?

[DJ]

It was originally projected to be end of summer early fall, but the tests have not begun yet so it could still be a couple of months. There will be some major changes in this release so it should not be pushed through.

[funman]

UPDATE: 0.8.6 will be a bugfix-only release (originally called 0.8.5.1)
and 0.9.0 (originally 0.8.6) will contain all the enhancements

[nonamevlc]

Useful update!

I was wondering how nighltlies progressed to 0.9 version & yet 0.8.6 is not out.

Clears that!

[nonamevlc]

I just checked the roadmap page.

It says

Milestone: 0.8.6

Due in 7 hours (10/01/06)

Does that really mean its gonna be out in 7 hrs !! ?

[Unkown user]

Open your playlist and loop the set of videos or one video. If you save and name the playlist you can do just about anything again and again. If the order needs to be changed you can edit the playlist with a normal editor like note pad. The options are repeat all or repeat one. If you choose repeat one you will need to highlight it first. VLC will not care about mixed file types in the playlist.

If I set the repeat option (multiple or single file) VLC will crash with an access violation at address 0 after some loops. Doesn't matter if I have one mp3 or more in the playlist.
I don't know if it matters, but I drag the files from explorer and drop them in VLC.