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Hi,

For some reason VLC doesn't seem to be able to show length for Transport Stream files. It plays them without problems but any function that relays on time stamps doesn't work. For example SKIP doesn't work.

This is a real big source of irritation for me since my main use for VLC is playing Transport Stream videos (TV-recordings from my netbased recorder) with my HTPC (Mac Mini) and using the slider to skip commercial breaks or to find the correct spot without time stamps is a real pain. Using SKIP would be MUCH easier.

So is it possible to add ability for VLC to understand the length of Transport Stream files?

Other programs (atleast Mplayer) seem to understand it, but I'd prefer to use VLC.

Thanks,

-Katz

This has been discussed earlier. Support should come eventually.

I tried searching the forums, but most of the topics went so much over my head that I had no idea what they were about.

Anyways, is this feature being worked on at the moment so that it could be coming in near future or is the schedule for it totally undefined

Thanks in advance,

-Katz

does anyone know if any progress has been made on this? this feature would be really important to me

No progress AFAIK.

im not sure if this is even helpful, but the direct show filter haali media splitter can return the length of a .ts file in windows media player, is it possible to get VLC to use that somehow? (http://haali.su/mkv/)

Also this link might contain infomation on how to get started? helpful http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums ... cd383f3610

VLC cannot use DirectShow filters. And problem would still exist on Unix, Linux and Mac OS X platforms.