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I've been combing through VLC 2.01's endless advanced settings but am somehow missing the relatively basic feature of taskbar icon progress as a video plays in Win7. All sorts of programs do this now, from browsers to other media players. Where is it hidden?

It is not hidden, it is just not existing.

How about any means of adding it? This is not a far-out, obscure feature; it's expected at this point, and not just in video players.

It would be annoying, since a media player icon would almost always have it running and it is distracting.

It would be optional, like 8000 other things are in VLC. And also useful for some people, since you can tell where you are in a video when it's minimized....

Actually that would be a pretty handy feature. It would give easy and immediate visual access to how much of the video has elapsed and how much remains without having to activate the video window and press I or double-click the video window to look at the full-screen controls. Some networks even provide a progress indicator in-show! Obviously people like to have progress information (especially for tedious videos).

It would be annoying, since a media player icon would almost always have it running and it is distracting.

Ah ha! I knew I had seen this topic before. Like I said in the other thread, just because you may find it distracting is not a good excuse to prevent everybody from having it. Just make it default to being off, then everybody wins.

Just to be sure, since I'm not seeing it, is it not in 3.0?

is this available in 3.0.6 or is it planned for v4.0?

Not in 3.0.6, unless very well hidden.

At this point, I doubt we'll ever see it. Whoever runs the show clearly hates the feature (hard to believe there's a technical limitation considering how common the feature is across Windows apps where it's appropriate to have the feature in the first place).