VLC media player 0.8.5-test4 beta release (was test3)

[ivanbuto]

@ivanbuto

my english is bad i'm from germany but originally form turkey
so i was in the office of my uncle.
it was not Windows 98 "SE"! only Windows 98!

Well, that doesn't really matter. I think you need to install the Microsoft Layer for Unicode: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... laylang=en

[MrZapper]

Hi,

I am using vlc 0.8.5-test3 to create a mosaic channel. I use twelve MPEG2 IP multicast channels for input to create one mosaic channel. Unfortunately vlc crashes after a while (within the hour). I can see the following error message in the event viewer (windows 2003):

Faulting application vlc.exe, version 0.8.5.0, faulting module libts_plugin.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00004c28.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

I tried to transcode to different codecs etc. but that doesn't seem to make a difference.

Is this a known bug?

Thanks in advance.

With kind regards,

MrZapper

[little_gritche]

Hi,

I have forgotten to say that the crash which occurs everytime I try to read that *.mov file occurs on a Windows XP SP2 machine. I have not tested under another OS. A Windows popup appears saying that VLC crashed and then VLC is automatically closed.

Thanks

Best regards

[Dandruff]

someone re-added the portaudio module to the latest builds (0.8.5-test4 and the 0.8.6 nightlies)!? should be removed again (because it doesn't work anymore since version 0.8.2).

[Guest]

Are the builds in testing/vlc-0.8.5-test4 something I should be using?

[Khamelion]

When I'm trying to to add files with "umlauts" like the german ö ä ü in the playlist, it does not play that file. But when I'm playing it directly it has no problem with that.
Someone recommend me to read this thread : viewtopic.php?t=14685 but it does not help me.

[usbhell]

Just tried vlc-0.8.5-test4 and found a bug with the Activex plugin. The volume property still only returns the value it has been set to and not what the actual volume level is, if it has been changed with the volume hotkeys.

cheers

[dionoea]

Yes, test4 is something you should use. We forgot to announce it :/

[Guest]

dionoea, et al: Is there any info available about the new OS X (Mozilla?) plugin?

[usbhell]

Apologies if this is a known problem but I never noticed it before. When I play TS files I've recorded off the tv with multiple aspect ratios 4:3 & 16:9. VLC switches between them fine if I just play the whole file. If i use the slider to skip through the file the aspect ratio doesn't change. So for instance the adverts are in 16:9 but the main prog is in 4:3, but it ends up getting stretched if I try and skip the ads with the slider.

cheers

[dionoea]

dionoea, et al: Is there any info available about the new OS X (Mozilla?) plugin?

Sure, browse the test4 macosx/ppc/ folder. You'll see one dmg for the standalone version of VLC and one for the mozilla plugin. (i don't use a mac so i can't guarantee that it works ... but it should :p)

[pasha1507]

I use Windows XP professional edition SP2, vlc-0.8.5-test4-win32
Hardware Semrtron 2500 video Ati Radeon 9600 pro

When I create playlist with defferend video and sound qality files
(some DVD qality some VHS) and just play it everything good all files play ok. But when I start streaming ( mms in local network ) and
catch it with Windows media player fist file from playlist always play Ok,
but next files often play slower or faster then need. I notice that such things happen when files from playlist have different qality and different codecs. But problem exist when I catch playlist streaming, if I just play this playlist whithout streaming everything ok.
Whats wrong?

[Guest]

dionoea, et al: Is there any info available about the new OS X (Mozilla?) plugin?

Sure, browse the test4 macosx/ppc/ folder. You'll see one dmg for the standalone version of VLC and one for the mozilla plugin. (i don't use a mac so i can't guarantee that it works ... but it should :p)

Does it *require* Mozilla? Because if it does, it should disable itself under browsers it's not designed for (if it's not compatible with Safari, it will simply cause interference).

I loaded it onto my test Mac, opened up Safari (Firefox not installed on my freshly imaged test Mac) and it says it's installed. Only problem is that QuickTime tends to register itself for every MIME type that the VLC plug-in supports, even if it can't handle all the codecs used.

Not sure how to get VLC to handle certain media instead of QuickTime. Removing the QT plugins would be one way, but that would mean losing support for all the other things that QT registers but VLC doesn't (eg: audio/aac, video/flc...).

I did disable my QT browser plug-ins and threw a couple of files at it, and wound up with differing results. Depending on the file type, mostly Safari either caused a window to open up in the Finder, showing where the file was (Safari acting as if it had "downloaded" the file rather than handling it internally), or a black browser window with "(no picture)" in it.

Which all leads me to believe that it is probably Mozilla-only?? So, yeah, disabling itself under other browsers like Safari would be a good idea.

[Guest]

All of the 0.8.4-test* versions of VLC will not fullscreen on my second monitor. I tried deleting preferences, etc, etc, but it always full screens on my main monitor. I tried video device 0, 1 and 2 in the interface section of the preferences.

Is this a known issue?

PowerPC, 10.4.6

If you need any traces or logs of any sort, tell me how and you shall receive.

cheers

[Guest]

so is the 8.5 Version (Final) going to be released in 3 Days

when i Drag the Time Scale thing to go later into a movie it freezes (Not the player) the movie and i have to start it from beginning.

is that a problem with VLC Media Player and is it fixed in this new version...

or is it a movie file problem.

[Guest]

Hi,
just installed the test4 version and unluckely there are some big problems.
I was able to make vlc show all my videos on my second monitor, but while playing a movie vlc starts a second instans of the movie-showing window causing both, the old and the new one to show nothing but a black screen.
The problem wasnt where in test3.

The Problem doesnt happen randomly but at spezial points in the movies and videos. Sound is not disturbed by that at all. I also tryed different videos with different codecs and they are all the same.

In the end I just wanted to meantion an other bug.
If I try to play a video with h263 or how that stuff is called no video will appear. I have to change the output device to standart, restart vlc and the video will play. after what I can even drag it to the other monitor without a prob.

Please excuse my bad englsih but an first Im not a native english speaker and secondly do I have a terrible headache.
with best regards
p90

[FORCE]

Is that normal (messages01.log) i just play music and these errors will run but everything works fine so this is not problem but problem is playng VLC own transcoded ac3 (test.ac3).
messages01.log
test.ac3
Later if i get hardware player then i test more heavily transcoding.

[Quovodis]

Does it *require* Mozilla? Because if it does, it should disable itself under browsers it's not designed for (if it's not compatible with Safari, it will simply cause interference).

the plugin does not require mozilla, it's called that way because it supports the mozilla plugin architecture and Safari supports plugins designed for mozilla.

I loaded it onto my test Mac, opened up Safari (Firefox not installed on my freshly imaged test Mac) and it says it's installed. Only problem is that QuickTime tends to register itself for every MIME type that the VLC plug-in supports, even if it can't handle all the codecs used.

This problem is not specific to MacOS X, it is a limitation of the plugin design, when 2 plugins supports the same mime type, the browser has to choose one, typically Safari will always prefer Quicktime over any other plugin (guess why !) where firefox would use either.

Not sure how to get VLC to handle certain media instead of QuickTime. Removing the QT plugins would be one way, but that would mean losing support for all the other things that QT registers but VLC doesn't (eg: audio/aac, video/flc...).

VLC has its own unique mime type: application/x-vlc-plugin, if you configure your web server to returns this mime type for all multimedia files, the Safari will choose VLC over QuickTime.
alternatively, in your HML pages you can use the OBJECT tag (instead of EMBED) as per following example:

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<OBJECT DATA="mymovie.avi" TYPE="application/x-vlc-plugin" TITLE="My Movie" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=100>

I did disable my QT browser plug-ins and threw a couple of files at it, and wound up with differing results. Depending on the file type, mostly Safari either caused a window to open up in the Finder, showing where the file was (Safari acting as if it had "downloaded" the file rather than handling it internally), or a black browser window with "(no picture)" in it.

the back window with the "(no picture)" means that the plugin was loaded by safari but for some reason, the plugin is enable to retrieve the multimedia data

Which all leads me to believe that it is probably Mozilla-only?? So, yeah, disabling itself under other browsers like Safari would be a good idea.

the plugin was coded for Safari actually, it works with firefox as well (but not as well, more testing is required)

[FORCE]

Discovered massive bug what caused wmv open in almost several windows (i saw even 6 windows open) CRITICAL log here
error01.log
I can provide this wmv if needed.

[Guest]

Issue with the last beta (test4) with subtitles : Sometimes during the movie, subtitles won't display for a few seconds, and then will display normally, and then won't display...
I haven't this problem with the latest stable version.

[Guest]

Video playback will freeze up but the audio keeps playing when I enable video post processing (any level). This is on a Mac Powerbook G4 running 10.4.6. If I disable post processing, video (.avi) plays fine. Note that VLC 0.8.4 does not have video problems with I select post processing.

[Guest]

So regarding the (no picture) problem in Safari - I have this problem; I've even tried reverting back to 0.8.4 and trashing prefs to no avail - is there a way around it, so I can watch QT files, MP3s, WMAs (you name it) in Safari?

[ivanbuto]

If I uninstall and install 0.8.4a again everything works. Have you dropped support for win9x?

We haven't dropped it intentionaly but we don't really bother to test anymore. I'll try to see if this can be fixed.

Thanks for fixing the issue for Windows 98 on the 0.8.5 final release!

[AlanM]

Hi,
Has anyone experienced the ActiveX control video going black when the control is resized? I have a dual screen system and moving the control from one screen to the other brings back the video stream, however stopping and playing the stream (in code on resize) doesn't work.

Could this be an issue with multi screen systems? Is it possible to change the decoder used?

System:
.NET 2
Nvidia Quadro FX 540 driver 7.2.2.3.