0.9 test builds

[EdwinHoegen]

I've also tested the new build. It looks great by the way, but I discover 2 problems
- In the previous versions I had large problems with playing AVI files. When I played serveral small AVI files from a playlist (let's say 3 or 4) and repeated this playlist, after a while the video's started to jerk and they scipped frames. In the new version that looks a lot beter. But sometimes a video stil starts with a small "hickup" perhaps this is something that can be checked. By the way the Media Player Classic with the latest FFDShow codes runs without any of these hickups.
- Further I notice that there is no seamless playback anymore. Every AVI file is loaded seperately. This is a problem because I use the DVMax tool from matrox and that means that between every movie the Overlay disapears which results in a sync flash on my TV-out. Is there a option to turn seamless playback on again?
Further perfect! Looks very nice. Greatings from The Netherlands.

[howdr]

Just tried 0.9 RC1 9/10/08 on Vista SP1 and it is unusable, it went to Direct output for the AVI,

0.8h was working fine with same AVi

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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).

Fixed since that version.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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.

Fill a bug.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Just tried 0.9 RC1 9/10/08 on Vista SP1 and it is unusable, it went to Direct output for the AVI,

0.8h was working fine with same AVi

Can you be MORE VAGUE ?

My car is broken... It used to work...

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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.

Fill a bug on that one, please.

[hoblingr]

Hi,

Nice build!!!
One VERY small cosmetic bug: when you click "show extended settings" next go to "video effects" the last tab is selected by default instead of the first one.

Thanks a lot for your efforts!

Regards,

Stephane

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Hi,

Nice build!!!
One VERY small cosmetic bug: when you click "show extended settings" next go to "video effects" the last tab is selected by default instead of the first one.

Thanks a lot for your efforts!

Regards,

Stephane

Fixed.

[howdr]

Just tried 0.9 RC1 9/10/08 on Vista SP1 and it is unusable, it went to Direct output for the AVI,

0.8h was working fine with same AVi

Can you be MORE VAGUE ?

My car is broken... It used to work...

Sorry, I have tried several of the RC and the Nightly builds on my Computer, Vista SP1 release and the RC from the 10th is the only one not to start up right and go into Direct X play

as far as the Control / preference panels they have been not working correctly, I get a double panel effect.( this is in all 0.9 builds so far.)

Sorry I'm new at testing and do not know how to properly report I guess.

I should just leave it up to all of you I guess.

I'm going back to the 0.8h release it worked the best so far.

I love VLC by the way

[Lotesdelere]

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).

Fixed since that version.

Erm which version ? What is fixed ? Or do you mean you have already fixed it in your own debug build ?

I've just tried DVB-T with VLC 0.9.2 RC1 and it crashes on aspect ratio change or when a new aspect ratio information is sent (looks like they are sending the aspect ratio info each time the program is changing even if the aspect ratio itself won't be different).

Log:

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ts debug: EITCallBack called libmpeg2 debug: 720x576 (display 720,576), aspect 576000, sar 16:15, 25.000 fps vout_directx debug: DirectXCloseSurface vout_directx debug: DirectXCloseDisplay vout_directx debug: DirectXCloseDisplay clipper vout_directx debug: DirectXCloseDisplay display vout_directx debug: DirectXCloseDDraw main debug: thread ended main debug: thread times: real 2m50.859375s, kernel 0m0.015625s, user 0m0.000000s main debug: thread 6820 joined (../../src/video_output/video_output.c:478) vout_directx debug: CloseVideo vout_directx debug: DirectXEventThread terminating vout_directx debug: DirectXCloseWindow vout_directx debug: WinProc WM_DESTROY main debug: removing module "qt4" main debug: thread ended qt4 debug: Video is not needed anymore main debug: thread times: real 2m50.859375s, kernel 0m0.000000s, user 0m0.015625s main debug: thread 6284 joined (../../../../modules/video_output/msw/directx.c:507) main debug: removing module "vout_directx" qt4 debug: Updating the geometry main debug: no usable vout present, spawning one main debug: window size: 1536x1152 main debug: looking for video output module: 6 candidates vout_directx debug: creating DirectXEventThread main debug: waiting for thread initialization main debug: thread started vout_directx debug: DirectXCreateWindow main debug: looking for vout window module: 2 candidates qt4 debug: waiting for interface... qt4 debug: requesting window... qt4 debug: Video was requested -1, -1 qt4 debug: Video is resizing to: 1536 1152 main debug: using vout window module "qt4" main debug: TIMER module_Need() : 4.000 ms - Total 4.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 4.000 ms) qt4 debug: Updating the geometry vout_directx debug: created video sub-window main debug: thread 6292 (Vout Events Thread) created at priority 0 (../../../../modules/video_output/msw/directx.c:281) vout_directx debug: Vout EventThread running vout_directx debug: DirectXInitDDraw vout_directx debug: directx-device: vout_directx debug: DirectXEnumCallback: Pilote d'affichage principal, display vout_directx debug: DirectXEnumCallback: ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series , \\.\DISPLAY1 vout_directx debug: selecting ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series , \\.\DISPLAY1 vout_directx debug: screen dimensions (0x0,1280x960) vout_directx debug: DirectDraw Capabilities: overlay=1 yuvoverlay=1 can_deinterlace_overlay=1 colorkey=1 stretch=1 bltfourcc=1 vout_directx debug: End DirectXInitDDraw vout_directx debug: DirectXCreateDisplay vout_directx debug: DirectXCreateClipper vout_directx debug: disabling screen saver main debug: using video output module "vout_directx" main debug: TIMER module_Need() : 11.000 ms - Total 11.000 ms / 1 intvls (Avg 11.000 ms) main debug: waiting for thread initialization main debug: thread started vout_directx debug: NewPictureVec overlay:yes chroma:YV12 vout_directx debug: YUV overlay created successfully vout_directx debug: End NewPictureVec (succeeded) main debug: got 1 direct buffer(s) main debug: picture in 720x576 (0,0,720x576), chroma I420, ar 4:3, sar 16:15 main debug: picture user 720x576 (0,0,720x576), chroma I420, ar 4:3, sar 16:15 main debug: picture out 720x576 (0,0,720x576), chroma I420, ar 4:3, sar 16:15 main debug: direct render, mapping render pictures 0-6 to system pictures 1-7 main debug: thread 6072 (video output) created at priority 1 (../../src/video_output/video_output.c:446) main error: picture to date 05918038 has invalid status 0 main error: picture to display 05918038 has invalid status 0 qt4 debug: New Event: type 1109

[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.

Fill a bug on that one, please.

Done:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2033


And also when using the Open Capture Device menu, I select either a Video or an Audio device and when I click on the Configure button then the configuration window is popping up behind the menu window so you have to move windows to be able to access the configuration window.
Looks like the menu window is always on top.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

It is fixed since that version. So this one breaks on it, but final version will not.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

http://people.videolan.org/~jb/Builds/0.9.2-rc2/

[ssbssa]

vlc-0.9.2-rc2-win32.7z is missing, but its md5 is there

[jstartin]

With this build installed on Vista Home SP1 with "clean" default preferences, and using it as a player for mainstream video file formats, some of the hotkeys seem to work imperfectly. Annoyances rather than blockers, but the "user experience" is spoilt a little. Is it just me?

Forward/backward jumps work properly to start with. But using the "time scroll bar" (if that is what it is called) leaves the hotkeys inoperative. Toggling the elapsed/remaining time (bottom right of standard interface) with a mouse click restores hotkey function.

Ctrl+T does not call up the "go to time" dialog when first used. If I open "go to time" from the menu and then cancel it the hotkey then works (but sometimes it breaks again later; I can't identify the events that cause this though).

Several of the default hotkeys with ALT+letter combinations are identical to menu shortcuts and invoke the latter - ALT+P (previous DVD chapter/playlist menu), ALT+H (go forward in browsing history/help menu), ALT+M (display OSD menu/media menu are examples, but there are more. And F1 "play playlist bookmark 1" is the standard Windows help key. OK, they can be customised, but it might be nicer if the default installation was free of "conflicts"

Hotkeys that call dialogs mostly don't work in full screen ("f" key) mode (examples are CTRL+P, CRTL+L, CTRL+T) where they would be most useful.

Finally a question on an unrelated aspect. If I load a playlist that contains bookmarks (made and saved from VLC and trying both m3u and xspf types), I don't get the bookmarks back into VLC. Should this work and, if it should, how do I do it?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

vlc-0.9.2-rc2-win32.7z is missing, but its md5 is there

Yeah. Not important.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

With this build installed on Vista Home SP1 with "clean" default preferences, and using it as a player for mainstream video file formats, some of the hotkeys seem to work imperfectly. Annoyances rather than blockers, but the "user experience" is spoilt a little. Is it just me?

Forward/backward jumps work properly to start with. But using the "time scroll bar" (if that is what it is called) leaves the hotkeys inoperative. Toggling the elapsed/remaining time (bottom right of standard interface) with a mouse click restores hotkey function.

Ctrl+T does not call up the "go to time" dialog when first used. If I open "go to time" from the menu and then cancel it the hotkey then works (but sometimes it breaks again later; I can't identify the events that cause this though).

Several of the default hotkeys with ALT+letter combinations are identical to menu shortcuts and invoke the latter - ALT+P (previous DVD chapter/playlist menu), ALT+H (go forward in browsing history/help menu), ALT+M (display OSD menu/media menu are examples, but there are more. And F1 "play playlist bookmark 1" is the standard Windows help key. OK, they can be customised, but it might be nicer if the default installation was free of "conflicts"

Hotkeys that call dialogs mostly don't work in full screen ("f" key) mode (examples are CTRL+P, CRTL+L, CTRL+T) where they would be most useful.

Finally a question on an unrelated aspect. If I load a playlist that contains bookmarks (made and saved from VLC and trying both m3u and xspf types), I don't get the bookmarks back into VLC. Should this work and, if it should, how do I do it?

Very interesting return...

I am working on the conflicts. I will solve all of them except the F1 one.

Fullscreen doesn't launch tool dialogs. This is wanted. Sorry.

The bookmarks aren't saved AFAIK.

For the time and the keys on slider, I will do what I can.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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.

Fill a bug on that one, please.

Done:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/2033

Closed.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Forward/backward jumps work properly to start with. But using the "time scroll bar" (if that is what it is called) leaves the hotkeys inoperative. Toggling the elapsed/remaining time (bottom right of standard interface) with a mouse click restores hotkey function.

Done.

Several of the default hotkeys with ALT+letter combinations are identical to menu shortcuts and invoke the latter - ALT+P (previous DVD chapter/playlist menu), ALT+H (go forward in browsing history/help menu), ALT+M (display OSD menu/media menu are examples, but there are more. And F1 "play playlist bookmark 1" is the standard Windows help key. OK, they can be customised, but it might be nicer if the default installation was free of "conflicts"

Done.

Hotkeys that call dialogs mostly don't work in full screen ("f" key) mode (examples are CTRL+P, CRTL+L, CTRL+T) where they would be most useful.

Normal.

[jstartin]

Forward/backward jumps work properly to start with. But using the "time scroll bar" (if that is what it is called) leaves the hotkeys inoperative. Toggling the elapsed/remaining time (bottom right of standard interface) with a mouse click restores hotkey function.

Done.

Several of the default hotkeys with ALT+letter combinations are identical to menu shortcuts and invoke the latter - ALT+P (previous DVD chapter/playlist menu), ALT+H (go forward in browsing history/help menu), ALT+M (display OSD menu/media menu are examples, but there are more. And F1 "play playlist bookmark 1" is the standard Windows help key. OK, they can be customised, but it might be nicer if the default installation was free of "conflicts"

Done.

Hotkeys that call dialogs mostly don't work in full screen ("f" key) mode (examples are CTRL+P, CRTL+L, CTRL+T) where they would be most useful.

Normal.

Thanks for your attention to these annoyances. Pity about the "normal" status of the last one - I know nothing about the technical issues but it would be good to be able to call these dialogs over an "f" full screen display, in due course.

Regarding saving and recalling bookmarks (earlier posts in this thread), bookmark positions appear to be saved in the playlist file, as seen if I open it in a text editor, but VLC open playlist doesn't do anything with them. I'm new to VLC, but there was a command line parameter to enable parsing of bookmarks in previous versions. The old instructions in the Wiki no longer seem to work though.

[Lotesdelere]

I've found a little problem with the SSA subtitles from this video:
http://rapidshare.com/files/113536801/S ... _.mkv.html

The vertical and bottom subtitles are correctly aligned together however they should be more to the right of the screen:


Like this:


And also it seems that the vertical subtitles are not properly displayed and you have to turn your head to the right to be able to read them:

[mikeyd]

Testing vlc-0.9.2-rc1-win32 ...

Cool - Ticket #1880 (VOB files freeze) seems to be solved!

But seeking while in pause mode doesn't work for all kind of (video) files.
Reproduce:

1. Start any video file
2. Press Pause button
3. Change time trackbar position

The video only moves (no picture change) to the new position if pressing 'Play' again.

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And why there are now dependencies from libvlc.dll to libiconv-2.dll and libgcrypt-11.dll and so on?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Thanks for your attention to these annoyances. Pity about the "normal" status of the last one - I know nothing about the technical issues but it would be good to be able to call these dialogs over an "f" full screen display, in due course.

Regarding saving and recalling bookmarks (earlier posts in this thread), bookmark positions appear to be saved in the playlist file, as seen if I open it in a text editor, but VLC open playlist doesn't do anything with them. I'm new to VLC, but there was a command line parameter to enable parsing of bookmarks in previous versions. The old instructions in the Wiki no longer seem to work though.

Can you please make two bug report on those so we can try to fix them in next release?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I've found a little problem with the SSA subtitles from this video:
http://rapidshare.com/files/113536801/S ... _.mkv.html

The vertical and bottom subtitles are correctly aligned together however they should be more to the right of the screen:


Like this:


And also it seems that the vertical subtitles are not properly displayed and you have to turn your head to the right to be able to read them:

Report the bug.
I doubt that we fix that now.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Testing vlc-0.9.2-rc1-win32 ...

Cool - Ticket #1880 (VOB files freeze) seems to be solved!

But seeking while in pause mode doesn't work for all kind of (video) files.
Reproduce:

1. Start any video file
2. Press Pause button
3. Change time trackbar position

The video only moves (no picture change) to the new position if pressing 'Play' again.

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And why there are now dependencies from libvlc.dll to libiconv-2.dll and libgcrypt-11.dll and so on?

Create an enhancement bug report, but this seem normal to me

There are dependencies to smaller the size of the package. If you don't like it, compile your own vlc.