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Currently using the scroll wheel to track forwards or backwards in a movie is the opposite of how I think it should intuitively be. To go forward I have to scroll up, and to go back I have to scroll down.

To me, scrolling down should progress forward, while scrolling up should go backwards. Think of scrolling through a document: you scroll down to see more content ahead, and scroll up to see previous content.

yes, but going up increases the "time"

It is another way of seeing it

VLC follows the "logical" mathematical convention which has right and up as more, and left and down as less. I'm afraid your way of thinking is the least common. I have to disagree with you here.

Besides, changing an existing interface convention would be bound to annoy existing users. Existing users are more important, because we can only loose them; while prospective users probably have their own media player and they're unlikely to make a switch in favor of VLC.

To J-b: With that "logic", you could argue that you should scroll the wheel up in a document to increase the offset from the top, but that's clearly not how it's done.

To Remi: How can you say that my way of thinking is not common? Viewing web pages is pretty common, and you scroll down to see more. Open any document and you scroll down to see more. Open a movie in VLC and you try to scroll down to see more... OH WAIT, it's going backwards! You approach it from the mathematical perspective of scrolling up increasing the 'time' variable, but that reasoning applies only to programmers working with the source code, and is not how typical end users perceive it.

Would it at least be possible to have an option to reverse it for those that want to?

Patch is welcome

Just registered to support and request this, still waiting for it after 7 years.

I don't feel the need for this feature, but since it doesn't harm anyone to make it optional, I filed a ticket 19116. I can't say when it will be added.