problems with 0.8.4-test1a
Posted: 11 Oct 2005 07:10
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.
(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.