I think i should explain this a bit more....
The problem is that VLC can do this... Just not on the fly. And that is what people expect. If we make the feature available in the current form as it is, it would be very confusing to most people. To make it work on the fly, we have to go trough several large changes in our video core to make sure things can 'restart' during playback safely.
We are slowly doing these changes, but it's more complicated than most of you seem to think, and next to that, we are also very understaffed. VLC only has very few core developers that have enough knowledge to make such large changes to the VLC sourcecode, and they work in their own time for free. NEVER forget that please.
VLC has grown from under a 1000 to over 5 miljon users in only 3,5 years. Unfortunatly our development staff has stayed somewhat equeal with core developers not reaching over the number 6.
Please be patient with us.
Hi!
I was about to post this request but apparently it was already there.
As an answer to your question to why you would want this feature I give an example: I, being a laptop user, have a widescreen display. Unfortunately, not all movies that the maker intended to be widescreen is encoded properly. By this I mean that instead of defining the movie file to be in a certain resolution (with the radio 16:9/16:10) they add black borders above and below the real contents of the film.
Eg Media Player Classic has a solution to this which means that they cut away the black borders, preventing them from being visible. However, it is still rendered so subtitles in the lower black border are being but in half too. I hope that VLC will find a solution to this too.
Concerning your previous post (the one I quoted) I totally agree with you. I, and every other user who don't pay you or sponsor you in any other way can't really demand you to do anything. I am just happy that you take requests at all and answer to the sometimes not all that clever posts in this forum.
I greatly appreciate you less-than-6 coders for making such an effort to make such a great application for yourself and others.