Latest version of VLC no longer shows Buff %

[BeckiM]

In previous versions of VLC, when listening to the BBC listen again streams, it used to show Buff % in the status bar where the time elapsed is before it started so i could see what was happening. Is there any way to get it to display this again? I have searched preferences but cannot find anything there.

Please help,

Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

This hasn't changed. Are you correctly using 1.1.4 ?

[BeckiM]

Yes 1.1.4, i have noticed it occasionally shows a decreasing shadow in that area which i assume indicates the buff, but it is so intermittent, not showing more than it shows, it isn't much help. I just upgraded from 1.0.5 which always showed it as 'Buff --%'.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

1) the buffering is now showed by the gradient
2) the buffering is done better and faster in VLC.

[BeckiM]

1) The problem is that this only shows when the focus is on VLC, and even then only half the time. When it's not showing i don't know whether the players buffering or not, it does sometimes just stop. I wouldn't mind the gradient instead of a % if it was reliable. Any indication of what's happening would help.

2) I'm not sure what you mean by this, i haven't noticed any other difference in the buffering. I use if for listening to BBC radio programs like this one: mms://wm.bbc.co.uk/wms/bbc7coyopa/bbc7_-_saturday_1300.wma
It's not the most reliable stream so being able to see the buff does help.

[BeckiM]

As it doesn't seem likely that this will be fixed or even seen as a problem please could someone tell me exactly which version this change was made. I'm finding the buff just doesn't work as well for the BBC programs i use if for. It's not just that it's not showing the % most the time, it's also buffering from the beginning completely before it will buffer from the point choose to start from.

Thanks.