0.9 test builds

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

OK, so far, blocking issues:
- resizing with Big videos
- Capture cards name ? Can't test this so far
- SRT segfaulting? Does it always happen ?

I'm still unable to open _any_ DVD using 'dvdsimple' (without DVD menus). http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/1782 I'm testing branch-20080907-0204 under Win Vista HP SP1.

This is NORMAL. The contribs haven't been updated on Altair.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hi,

Another bug with test version:
audio decoding for format wma2 (sample rate 44100Hz, bits per sample 16, bitrate 64kb/s) is broken in 0.9.2 test. It works fine in 8.6i. The sound is distorted with some artefatcs.
If you need a sample tell me I can upload one.

I know that one. I don't know yet.

[secarica]

There are some graphical glitches in the Open Disc interface: [...]

In fact there *is* a way to reproduce this bug:

• open that dialog
• check the Show more options box (Afficher plus d'options respectively)
• put the mouse cursor at the top or bottom of the window so it becomes a vertical resizing cursor
• resize the window to make it smaller on vertical size

Perhaps this happens always if the user's vertical screen resolution is smaller than a certain value.

(later edit) Happens the same on the File, Disc and Capture device tabs of that dialog.

Cristi

[vlcCole]

I have a problem with playing mp4 files (edit: h264 files created with x264). The first frames are blocky, then playback is fine. But for quality testing (of video files) it is vital that also the first few frames are displayed well. I have a 5MB testfile which I could upload for verifying.

[Lotesdelere]

OK, so far, blocking issues:

- resizing with Big videos
- Capture cards name ? Can't test this so far
- SRT segfaulting? Does it always happen ?

Resizing any video doesn't work properly. You can't get the size of the VLC window to be more than 690*539 with a video size of 682*406.

I have only one capture device so I can't test that as it seems to happen when several capture devices are available, sorry.

SRT subtitles are working fine with the current latest nightly build (vlc-0.9.2-win32.7z 07/09/2008 02:39) so it seems to me that this problem occurs with your build only.

There are some graphical glitches in the Open Disc interface: [...]

In fact there *is* a way to reproduce this bug:

• open that dialog
• check the Show more options box (Afficher plus d'options respectively)
• put the mouse cursor at the top or bottom of the window so it becomes a vertical resizing cursor
• resize the window to make it smaller on vertical size

Perhaps this happens always if the user's vertical screen resolution is smaller than a certain value.

Yes now I know how it happened.
I have used the 'simple' advanced menu so the position and size of the window have been saved. Then in the preferences I've enabled the option to always show the advanced options. And then I use the advanced menus again the advanced options are shown but still using the same window size of the 'simple' advanced menus thus stretching some text to fit in the window. Manually resizing the window fixed it.

audio decoding for format wma2 (sample rate 44100Hz, bits per sample 16, bitrate 64kb/s) is broken in 0.9.2 test. It works fine in 8.6i.

I am also experiencing HUGE audio/video sync problems with WMA2 audio, the sound being far behind the video.

[dorfd1]

I have the hvr 1800 which does not have a line out, so how do I tell this version to stream the audio coming into the hvr 1800? My sound card is the only thing that shows up as the audio source. I tried play the hvr 1800 all I get is video. How do I get audio?

Nothing to do with this thread.

I downloaded the build to see if my hvr 1800 problem was fixed but it was not.

[keypad]

Hello,

Hello,

I'm a french Delphi developper.
I'm using vlc 0.9.2 and libvlc.dll.

Unfortunately, i have an error when i try to call :
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_destroy', @libvlc_destroy);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_get_input', @libvlc_playlist_get_input);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_input_free', @libvlc_input_free);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_input_get_position', @libvlc_input_get_position);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_input_get_length', @libvlc_input_get_length);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_video_get_parent', @libvlc_video_get_parent);

The other calls are OK like :
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_new', @libvlc_new);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_exception_clear', @libvlc_exception_clear);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_add', @libvlc_playlist_add);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_add_extended', @libvlc_playlist_add_extended);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_clear', @libvlc_playlist_clear);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_items_count', @libvlc_playlist_items_count);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_isplaying', @libvlc_playlist_isplaying);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_play', @libvlc_playlist_play);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_pause', @libvlc_playlist_pause);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_stop', @libvlc_playlist_stop);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_next', @libvlc_playlist_next);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_playlist_prev', @libvlc_playlist_prev);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_toggle_fullscreen', @libvlc_toggle_fullscreen);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_set_fullscreen', @libvlc_set_fullscreen);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_get_fullscreen', @libvlc_get_fullscreen);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_video_get_width', @libvlc_video_get_width);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_video_get_height', @libvlc_video_get_height);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_audio_get_mute', @libvlc_audio_get_mute);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_audio_set_mute', @libvlc_audio_set_mute);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_audio_get_volume', @libvlc_audio_get_volume);
VLD_GetProcAddress('libvlc_audio_set_volume', @libvlc_audio_set_volume);

I don't know why !! ???
Can you help me please ???

[Lotesdelere]

I have some MP4 files with AAC audio (with or without video) which are giving me no sound with the nightly build vlc-0.9.2-win32.7z 07/09/2008 02:39 but the same files are playing fine with JB's preview build.

More details can be found in this post:
viewtopic.php?p=159786#p159786

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I have some MP4 files with AAC audio (with or without video) which are giving me no sound with the nightly build vlc-0.9.2-win32.7z 07/09/2008 02:39 but the same files are playing fine with JB's preview build.

More details can be found in this post:
viewtopic.php?p=159786#p159786

I am going to give you some new builds soon.

[Lotesdelere]

I have some MP4 files with AAC audio (with or without video) which are giving me no sound with the nightly build vlc-0.9.2-win32.7z 07/09/2008 02:39 but the same files are playing fine with JB's preview build.

More details can be found in this post:
viewtopic.php?p=159786#p159786

I am going to give you some new builds soon.

The files are playing fine with your build so don't break that

[Lotesdelere]

There are some graphical glitches in the Open Disc interface: [...]

In fact there *is* a way to reproduce this bug:

• open that dialog
• check the Show more options box (Afficher plus d'options respectively)
• put the mouse cursor at the top or bottom of the window so it becomes a vertical resizing cursor
• resize the window to make it smaller on vertical size

Perhaps this happens always if the user's vertical screen resolution is smaller than a certain value.

Yes now I know how it happened.
I have used the 'simple' advanced menu so the position and size of the window have been saved. Then in the preferences I've enabled the option to always show the advanced options. And then I use the advanced menus again the advanced options are shown but still using the same window size of the 'simple' advanced menus thus stretching some text to fit in the window. Manually resizing the window fixed it.

BTW since I had to manually resize the advanced menus window because of the problem explained above, VLC always crashes on exit when I've used or even only opened any of the advanced menus.

[crilian]

I just tried the new version v0.9.1,
and in Minimal view mode, there is a minimum width constrain that prevent to adapt the window width to the video size.
The same also happens when zooming out.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

BTW since I had to manually resize the advanced menus window because of the problem explained above, VLC always crashes on exit when I've used or even only opened any of the advanced menus.

Sorry, you are NOT clear.

Advanced menus ? Advanced Toolbar ? Advanced Preferences ?
If you want me to fix some bugs, you need to be clear.

[Lotesdelere]

When I'm playing this file:
http://www.stfcc.org/misc/transformers.sample.m2ts
I have another window called "VLC (hardware YUV DirectX output)" which is popping up on my screen. This window remains black during the playback while the video is playing in the main VLC window.
Any idea why ?
(BTW the audio of this file is E-AC3 so you won't get any sound in VLC, this is normal)


Something else:
In the statistics the FPS counter is always showing 0 FPS. Doesn't matter which container I'm using and which video format is played.

BTW since I had to manually resize the advanced menus window because of the problem explained above, VLC always crashes on exit when I've used or even only opened any of the advanced menus.

Sorry, you are NOT clear.

Advanced menus ? Advanced Toolbar ? Advanced Preferences ?
If you want me to fix some bugs, you need to be clear.

Everything is explained here:
viewtopic.php?p=159597#p159597
and here (2nd part):
viewtopic.php?p=159671#p159671

Advanced menus are the menus showing advanced options.
I've never used the word Toolbar. I hate toolbars, all of them.
Advanced Preferences are the... advanced preferences I'm always using in opposition to the simple preferences which is the default setting in VLC.

[Arite]

When I'm playing this file:
http://www.stfcc.org/misc/transformers.sample.m2ts
I have another window called "VLC (hardware YUV DirectX output)" which is popping up on my screen. This window remains black during the playback while the video is playing in the main VLC window.
Any idea why ?

There are two reported video tracks, or at least VLC detects two.

Arite.

[VLC_help]

When I'm playing this file:
http://www.stfcc.org/misc/transformers.sample.m2ts
I have another window called "VLC (hardware YUV DirectX output)" which is popping up on my screen. This window remains black during the playback while the video is playing in the main VLC window.
Any idea why ?

There are two reported video tracks, or at least VLC detects two.

Arite.

MediaInfo and tsmuxer report the same. So the file has both SD and HD video tracks. There are also multiple audiotracks and other stuff.

Displaying all the video tracks same time is a "feature" of VLC.

[Lotesdelere]

There are two reported video tracks, or at least VLC detects two.

MediaInfo and tsmuxer report the same. So the file has both SD and HD video tracks. There are also multiple audiotracks and other stuff.

Displaying all the video tracks same time is a "feature" of VLC.

Yes, I've also noticed the two video tracks, but as the Video Track menu is showing them and supposed to allow to select only one at a time, I expected to see only one window. I didn't know about this 'feature'

However I have some TS files containing several video tracks but I can select them from the Playback -> Program menu and not from the Video Track menu and only one window is displayed and not five.

I have some MP4 files with AAC audio (with or without video) which are giving me no sound with the nightly build vlc-0.9.2-win32.7z 07/09/2008 02:39 but the same files are playing fine with JB's preview build.

More details can be found in this post:
viewtopic.php?p=159786#p159786

I've just noticed that these MP4 videos start playing with the sound disabled for some reason
If I activate the audio track then I can hear the sound. It's strange that the sound is enabled with some videos and not with some other ones and it doesn't matter the way I'm using to play the video: double click (MP4 files are associated with VLC on my system), Open With or drag and drop.

The audio only file still doesn't want to play at all though.

EDIT:
I think I've found the bug. If I have a Audio Language set in the options, the audio streams which have a specified language won't play if this language doesn't match with my prefered language.
If I remove this option and leave the Audio Language option blank then all files are playing fine including the audio only file.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

New builds!

http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Builds/0.9.2-rc1/

About your mp4 samples, this is just YOUR issue because it wokrs for me.

[Arite]

New build is great. Only thing is that album art doesn't seem to display. According to folder.c on Windows "Folder.jpg" and then "AlbumArtSmall.jpg" (not sure if it ic ase sensitive or not) are checked, however that does not seem to happen. Then right clicking the album art space in e.g. the playlist will sucessfully download (in AppData etc.) the album art, however it is not displaced in the Qt4 interface (just blank space remains).

Cheers, Arite.

[Lotesdelere]

New builds!
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Builds/0.9.2-rc1/

About your mp4 samples, this is just YOUR issue because it wokrs for me.

About the MP4 files with no audio:
I've just downloaded and installed your new build.
I've deleted the whole VLC preferences folder.
First run, I've changed absolutely NO setting so it's using all of the default ones. Only thing I'm doing is to move the main window from the center of my screen to the top left corner.
I close VLC.
I open the GetSmart_HD.mp4 video. Perfect, it's playing fine. I open the audio only file mp4_he-aac160_51.mp4. Perfect, it's also playing fine.
I close VLC.
I run VLC again and in Preferences -> Audio I set the Prefered Audio Language to FR. I save the preferences and exit VLC.
I open the GetSmart_HD.mp4 video. No sound, it's disabled in the Audio menu. If I select the Audio Track 1 then the sound is playing fine.
I open the audio only file mp4_he-aac160_51.mp4. No sound. And no way to enable the audio as it's an audio only file.
I close VLC.
I run VLC again and I remove the FR from the Prefered Audio Language so I leave the field blank. I save the preferences and exit VLC.
Now both MP4 files are playing fine again with sound enabled by default.

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In the statistics the FPS counter is always showing 0 FPS. Doesn't matter which container I'm using and which video format is played.

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Something else now:
This video contains several subtitles languages:
http://streams.videolan.org/streams-vid ... titled.mkv

Most of them are SSA subtitles and two of them are SUBT.
The SSA subtitles are not working with VLC 0.9.2 (any build) but they are working fine with VLC 0.8.6 and VLC 0.9.0 (an old nightly build from June 2007) even though they appear with a small size.
The SUBT subtitles are working fine though.

However the SSA subtitles from this video:
http://rapidshare.com/files/113536801/S ... _.mkv.html
are working fine with VLC 0.9.2.

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But it's a great build
The video size is now working as expected, good job

JB, I guess you and the devs team are a bit stressed and under pressure these days because you want to release v0.9 as soon as possible and there is still some work to do.
But be sure that I'm not blaming any of you, I'm only reporting annoyances and strange behaviour that I may notice. I'm trying, at my level, to help you to make VLC better and bug free, if possible. I wouldn't spend time testing stuff if I didn't think that VLC is one of greatest pieces of software around

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

New build is great. Only thing is that album art doesn't seem to display. According to folder.c on Windows "Folder.jpg" and then "AlbumArtSmall.jpg" (not sure if it ic ase sensitive or not) are checked, however that does not seem to happen. Then right clicking the album art space in e.g. the playlist will sucessfully download (in AppData etc.) the album art, however it is not displaced in the Qt4 interface (just blank space remains).

Cheers, Arite.

Normal. Qt isn't built with jpeg support. Will fix that later.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

New builds!
http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Builds/0.9.2-rc1/

About your mp4 samples, this is just YOUR issue because it wokrs for me.

About the MP4 files with no audio:
I've just downloaded and installed your new build.
I've deleted the whole VLC preferences folder.
First run, I've changed absolutely NO setting so it's using all of the default ones. Only thing I'm doing is to move the main window from the center of my screen to the top left corner.
I close VLC.
I open the GetSmart_HD.mp4 video. Perfect, it's playing fine. I open the audio only file mp4_he-aac160_51.mp4. Perfect, it's also playing fine.
I close VLC.
I run VLC again and in Preferences -> Audio I set the Prefered Audio Language to FR. I save the preferences and exit VLC.
I open the GetSmart_HD.mp4 video. No sound, it's disabled in the Audio menu. If I select the Audio Track 1 then the sound is playing fine.
I open the audio only file mp4_he-aac160_51.mp4. No sound. And no way to enable the audio as it's an audio only file.
I close VLC.
I run VLC again and I remove the FR from the Prefered Audio Language so I leave the field blank. I save the preferences and exit VLC.
Now both MP4 files are playing fine again with sound enabled by default.

-----

In the statistics the FPS counter is always showing 0 FPS. Doesn't matter which container I'm using and which video format is played.

-----

Something else now:
This video contains several subtitles languages:
http://streams.videolan.org/streams-vid ... titled.mkv

Most of them are SSA subtitles and two of them are SUBT.
The SSA subtitles are not working with VLC 0.9.2 (any build) but they are working fine with VLC 0.8.6 and VLC 0.9.0 (an old nightly build from June 2007) even though they appear with a small size.
The SUBT subtitles are working fine though.

However the SSA subtitles from this video:
http://rapidshare.com/files/113536801/S ... _.mkv.html
are working fine with VLC 0.9.2.

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But it's a great build
The video size is now working as expected, good job

JB, I guess you and the devs team are a bit stressed and under pressure these days because you want to release v0.9 as soon as possible and there is still some work to do.
But be sure that I'm not blaming any of you, I'm only reporting annoyances and strange behaviour that I may notice. I'm trying, at my level, to help you to make VLC better and bug free, if possible. I wouldn't spend time testing stuff if I didn't think that VLC is one of greatest pieces of software around

Well, none of those seems to be very important, so, we may release anyway.

[Arite]

New build is great. Only thing is that album art doesn't seem to display. According to folder.c on Windows "Folder.jpg" and then "AlbumArtSmall.jpg" (not sure if it ic ase sensitive or not) are checked, however that does not seem to happen. Then right clicking the album art space in e.g. the playlist will sucessfully download (in AppData etc.) the album art, however it is not displaced in the Qt4 interface (just blank space remains).

Cheers, Arite.

Normal. Qt isn't built with jpeg support. Will fix that later.

OK thanks for the info.

Arite.

[Lotesdelere]

When playing a video if I put the mouse cursor over the progression slider and use the mouse wheel for fast seeking, I can see the slider moving but no seeking is performed, the video just keeps on playing in a normal way.

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I've uploaded a file named ARchange.ts to the FTP.
It's a simple MPEG2 TS but with an aspect ratio change in the middle from 4:3 to 16:9.
This file crashes VLC 0.9.2 RC1 on the aspect ratio change. The file is playing fine with VLC 0.8.6 though.
I'm going to do more tests about that later because it might be a major issue when watching at some DVB channels. For instance they often change the aspect ratio for ads in the middle of a film (e.g. film @ 16:9 -> ads break @ 4:3 -> back to the film @ 16:9).

[Maloke]

Just a minor bug here. I'm running 0.9.2, and also noticed this in an earlier nightly build from a couple weeks ago. When you run fullscreen, the mouse wheel is set to scroll forward and backward in the video. However, it also adjusts the volume up and down as well, and I've yet to figure out a way to stop it from doing this.