VLC playing still images

[billiec1]

I've used VLC many years. One feature seems to have changed: Previously, when I brought up a still image (JPG) , it stayed up, no time scroll. If I used the skip Forward or Back, it would move to the next still image in the folder. It treats the JPG as a video. It did not do this previously
Could not find anything in preferences to address this. Assuming it was due to a recent VLC upgrade I reinstalled several earlier versions of VLC but the behavior continues.
I've changed nothing else in my computer settings (Win 7 if that matters).

I looked through the forums but didn't see any info.

Apologies in advance if this is a noob question.
Thanks

[RRodion]

Yep. I have the same problem. I'm pretty sure I was using an old version of VLC and it worked well for me. Straightforward, bare bones image display. The computer with that version crashed and I can't see any way of duplicating the old functionality. Looks like I'm going to have to learn a hole new interface with on a different product. Right now I'm trying ImageGlass9, but it doesn't have the control of image order by date that the old VLC had.
People take over a program and do all sorts of new and cool things with it the work for them, and don't really care how others might be using the same program. (Why would you do that?) If anyone can point me to where to get the old VLC functionality, I'd welcome it, but I'm not looking for an old version as-is, since it might not understand newer image formats.

[badmuzo]

to billec1 / RRodion :

I'll recycle the advice I received in my post "Delay in playlist for fixed images".

There's two ways that you can circumvent the new behaviour of VLC.

First answer by Lotesdelere :

Menu Tools -> Preferences -> Show settings: ALL
Input/Codecs -> Demuxers -> Image
Then in the right panel you can set the Duration in seconds
Save the preferences then exit and restart VLC for the change to take effect.

My experience is that I didn't have even to restart VLC, unless I did without paying attention. You can put an insanely long delay and then press a key or click to go to the next image.

Second answer by Unidan :

You should be able to change the duration this way with xspf:

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<vlc:option>image-duration=4</vlc:option>

In both cases, set the duration to any long duration, i.e. 10, 60, 99, 120, 999, 9999, and go to next image with a click or a key.

Thanks to Lotesdelere and Unidan.