PAL x0,96 slowdown on OSX

[roger jonsson]

Just downloaded vlc 1.0.0 rc2 OSX. Still no x0.96% slow down. I found a function (faster fine /slower fine) among the quick key settings. But it only works at +-0,1 steps which are way to much (x0,9 is way too slow).

Sigh. This is an important fuction for us watching movies transferred to PAL-video. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us a x0,96 slow down in some way. Why not make an "faster extra fine"/"slower extra fine" or change the current faster fine /slower fine to finer increments by a factor 10. A single setting slow down to x0,96 (roughly but OK) would be equally Fine.

This is not cool toy functionallity, this is a serious quality thing to be able to play movies at the correct speed.
You already have the function working, PLEASE MAKE IT USEFUL! I can not understand why you do not!

What can I do to make this happen?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Use Windows

[roger jonsson]

Funny guy.
There are reasons why I prefer OSX on my home entertainment system. At the moment I am mainly using Mplayer OSX extended, for playing movies and it works with 95% of the DVDs I try to play with it and with some fiddling even more. Maybe I should just forget VLC?

Really, -What is the problem in making this adjustment to the OSX version?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

VLC on Windows has a speed slider that goes to 0.96x
VLC on mac hasn't yet. Waiting for some coders to do it.

[roger jonsson]

What I mean is there a way to influence the priority?

[The DJ]

Yes, you hire a developer to implement the feature for you.

[roger jonsson]

OK. I'll take that as a no.
To hire a developer to rewrite VLC, will be much harder than having someone tweak Mplayer for track playing capabillity (Mplayer can already do what I want, but only via terminal commands). I think I will have to start in that end, since interest over here is so low.

I must say it is quite strange that this feature is missing "the" video player dated 2009. I can not imagine any difficulty for a VLC-coder to change the stepsize of the speed command to make it useful for quality watching, but if there isn't much of a real way to influence the decision of making it happen, not much I can do about it, I guess.

[snover]

Turning the speed down to 0.96× works in 1.0.0-RC2, except that the audio is slowed down but kept at the same pitch, regardless of whether or not scaletempo filter is enabled. Am I missing something, or is there no way to have it reduce the rate of the audio too?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Yes, deactivate the pitche rescaling. AND don't HIJACK threads...