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Dear VideoLAN users,

The VideoLAN team is happy to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.5.

Highlights of the new features and improvements:
* MacIntel support
* Statistic system
* Linux DV input
* Audio CD improvements (CDDB)
* Many new and improved video filters
* New AJAX HTTP interface
* Drag'n Drop and VLM in windows/linux default interface
* Winamp 2 skins support
* Cook real audio codec
* MSN and Growl "Now playing" plugins
* XSPF playlist support
* Mozilla plugin support on Mac OS X (PowerPC only)
* New default skin
* Loads of bugfixes.

You can get a complete list by reading the release notes:
http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS

Binary packages for Windows and MacOS X (PowerPC and Intel) are
available. You can download those and the source code as well on:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Help concerning this new VLC version is available :
* Documentation - http://www.videolan.org/doc/
* The Forum - http://forum.videolan.org/
* The Wiki Pages - http://wiki.videolan.org/
* The User Mailing Lists - http://www.videolan.org/support/lists.html
* IRC - #videolan on Freenode

Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after
upgrading from a previous version.

For the VideoLAN team,

Bug report : The subtitles don't display properly : they don't display for a few seconds, then they display normally, then they don't .... (Sometimes during the movie, subtitles don't display at all whereas they should)
I've already tried to reset the settings, problem still here
I didn't have this issue with the previous version of VLC.


Edit : It was a problem with the accents in the subs, solved by setting encoding to ISO-8859-1, thank you dionoea

Bug Report: I still have the problem with adding files in the playlist with german "umlauts". The Wxwidgets Playlist version didn't have it.

Hi,
The uninstall doesn't work

Hi,
The uninstall doesn't work

You need to provide some more information, like:
* Dont work, in what way? What happends?
* Which operating system do you run?

Hi,
The uninstall doesn't work

You need to provide some more information, like:
* Dont work, in what way? What happends?
* Which operating system do you run?

It's under WinXP with SP2, because uninstall.log is empty.
Only axvlc.dll, uninstall.log and uninstall.exe are deleted.
And it is impossible to select checkbox "Delete preference and cache".

when installing, two errors come up

Error opening file for write:

C:\Program Files\VideoLan\VLC\plugins\libdshow_plugin.dll

Error opening file for write:

C:\Program Files\VideoLan\VLC\plugins\libvout_directX_plugin.dll


is it my retardedness or is it truely a bug?

I am installing with the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins chosen, and almost all filetype associations selected (except .mps, .aac and a few others so it doesn't mess up iTunes), and set to delete old preferences.

I had to Reset Defaults for VLC to work (otherwise it would crash), and I was going from 0.8.5 test-3 to 0.8.5 final. That's weird :-/

The previously reported issue about writing TS stream to file in ASF container is still reproducible on 0.8.5 release version.

Bug report:
In the playlist, it is not possible to delete multiple files at once by selecting them (or by any other meathod that I know of)

Deleting the last playlist entry (regardless of what you have selected) deletes the entire list.

I am running WinXP SP2, and I dont really know if this extends to other systems, though I assume so.

I posted this in the windows forum, but got no reply.. if this post is overkill, sorry for the double post.

I am very happy with the test4, I am downloading the newest version right now. This is the best version since .8.1 (mainly due to the fact that the playlist is usable again, but also due to the improved video handling).

Since I havn't used the release version just yet, I can't comment on the two issues I found with test4. But even those issues where minimal, just a minor inconveniance. Even if the release version is an exact copy of the test4, it definetly takes first prize in my book.

Good job everybody, man but I love VLC.

Bug Report: I still have the problem with adding files in the playlist with german "umlauts". The Wxwidgets Playlist version didn't have it.

Could someone answer me, wether this problem is fixable?

New VLC Player is skipping between Audio CD tracks. Previous version played it quite smoothly. What's up?

Bug report : The subtitles don't display properly : they don't display for a few seconds, then they display normally, then they don't .... (Sometimes during the movie, subtitles don't display at all whereas they should)
I've already tried to reset the settings, problem still here
I didn't have this issue with the previous version of VLC.


Edit : It was a problem with the accents in the subs, solved by setting encoding to ISO-8859-1, thank you dionoea

how to change it ?

When you select the file of subtitles, to the right is a button that says to "advanced options", you do click and in the window that to you appear it looks for in codification option ISO-8859-1, accepts and this already.

Excuses by my low level of English.

Bug report : The subtitles don't display properly : they don't display for a few seconds, then they display normally, then they don't .... (Sometimes during the movie, subtitles don't display at all whereas they should)
I've already tried to reset the settings, problem still here
I didn't have this issue with the previous version of VLC.


Edit : It was a problem with the accents in the subs, solved by setting encoding to ISO-8859-1, thank you dionoea

how to change it ?

Well, that's very uncomfortable since 0.8.4 works fine without having to do that

Hey, i'm having problems trying to play a xvid encoded avi at 800*600 res.
url as follows: colors are lost, it plays in black and white, and the display is repeated like four times O_o0 (full height, 1/4 width, repeated horizontally four times)
Tryed to took a snapshot from within vlc itself, but it looks ok... the "bug" or whatever it is it's not shown. :S
Vlc 0.8.5, windows xp sp2. Same with latest nightly.
Why does this happens?

Bug report:
Video cropping to 1.56:1 instead of 1.77:1(16:9).
Previous version do this correctly.

Steps:
1. Open any video file.
2. Right-click on the video and select "Crop/16:9"
3. The Video now has an aspect ratio on around 1.56:1

Hey, i'm having problems trying to play a xvid encoded avi at 800*600 res.
url as follows:

Code: Select all

ftp://ftp.untergrund.net/breakpoint/2006/misc/fr-049-xvid.avi

colors are lost, it plays in black and white, and the display is repeated like four times O_o0 (full height, 1/4 width, repeated horizontally four times)
Tryed to took a snapshot from within vlc itself, but it looks ok... the "bug" or whatever it is it's not shown. :S
Vlc 0.8.5, windows xp sp2. Same with latest nightly.
Why does this happens?

Ok, fooled around a bit more and this also happens with another totally different video, in this case, Spiderman 3 teaser downloaded from apple's page. HD, 480p version. Audio is mp4a (aac?) and video is avc1 (h.264, right?) res is 852*480, paketiser is MOV.
message window: ...and kept on the fifos thingy until it hanged up vlc.
***If played normally (without the message window opened), vlc does not hang up.***

Almost forgot, same thing seems to happen with 0.8.4a and latest nightly from today (vlc-0.8.6-svn-20060702-0000-win32.exe).
Here's acapture made with an external program:

085 wont even launch under OSX 10.3.5 - nothing happens.
Earlier versions still seem to work fine.
THE FAQ does not say which OSX versions are supported.....
I tried deleting the prefs, as well as home/library/preferences/VLC (the config file)
Trying to see if a bunch of MKV files can be made to play and i couldnt even get VLC 085 to even come up <sigh>

085 wont even launch under OSX 10.3.5 - nothing happens.
Earlier versions still seem to work fine.
THE FAQ does not say which OSX versions are supported.....

Might be that it is not mentioned in the FAQ. But it is certainly mentioned in the download page:

Hi every body, actualy I have a problem to hear the audio's tv from a FlyVideo 2000 saa7130 Chipset, to present a wide view My Sistem is Debian Sarge (stable)

>> uname -r
2.6.8-2-386

>> lspci |grep SAA7130
0000:02:0a.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors
SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

>> lsmod | grep saa7134
saa7134 91344 0
video_buf 20356 1 saa7134
v4l2_common 6400 1 saa7134
v4l1_compat 13572 1 saa7134
ir_common 5124 1 saa7134
videodev 9856 1 saa7134
soundcore 9824 3 saa7134,snd
i2c_core 22416 2 saa7134,tuner

>> lsmod | grep oss
snd_pcm_oss 48168 0
snd_mixer_oss 16640 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 85384 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd 50660 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,
snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
>> ls -l /dev |grep audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 2006-07-12 15:09 adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2006-07-12 15:09 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2006-07-12 15:09 dsp
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 2006-07-12 15:09 mixer
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 10, 135 2006-07-12 11:26 rtc

>> dmesg

intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 51218 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.12 loaded
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 225
saa7130[0]: found at 0000:02:0a.0, rev: 1, irq: 225, latency:
132, mmio: 0xc0101 000
saa7130[0]: subsystem: 5169:0138, board: LifeView FlyVIDEO2000
[card=3,insmod op tion]
saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 38500
saa7130[0]: registered input device for IR
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus saa7130[0]
tuner: type set to 39 (LG NTSC (newer TAPC series)) by saa7130[0]
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 69 51 38 01 10 28 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 10: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 20: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: i2c eeprom 30: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0
saa7130[0]: registered device radio0
tuner: TV freq (268435455.93) out of range (44-958)


I have installed
alsa-base 1.0.8-7
alsa-utils 1.0.8-4
alsa-headers 1.0.8-7
alsa-source 1.0.8-7
alsa-oss 1.0.8-1

Well now that you have an idea of my sistem, i installed VLC 0.85 and work perfectly streaming a video file... then when I try to stream a video signal from the Capture Card, I obtein Video but no Sound..... Is peculiar that when ran xawtv i can wath and hear tv perfectly...... And after to try and try a run
>> v4lctl volume mute off
and a can hear and watch tv on VLC but when I try stream it.... only video, not sound again

I apreciate your help, i'm really tired about this mistake.....

Thanks

Hello,
Mozaic and mozaic wizard not goes well. I try to create mosaics in windows xp and they not goes well.

I write a lot of messages in this forum avout thies problem.


I love VLC