VLC doesn't save settings!

[leech88]

It's really annoying. It seems sometimes it does save, others it doesn't. when I close up the player it just forgets them. some settings eventually stick after a few tries but many don't Configuring the skins was really hard too. Some I can't get even VLC to remember at all: random play, visualizations, msn "now playing", etc... I already tried resetting the preferences and cache files, throwing away all the time spent fine tuning the damn thing, and nothing! It still happens

[VLC_help]

You set those settings via Tools -> Preferences and used Save button in there?

[leech88]

sure

[VLC_help]

And those settings are stored to your %appdata%\vlc\vlcrc file?

[leech88]

thanks for the help.
Well, now VLC is saving most settings, but one remains most ilusive: when the option "MSN nowplaying" is enabled in preferences=>interface=>control interfaces, there is a field which reads "msn". I want to change it to "msnmsgr" so it will work with MSN live messenger but VLC doesn't remember this change. The first time I did it worked for a while but then it came to this. And there doesn't seem to be an option in the vlcrc file for the value in the field I described.

So far I've been able to get things right, eventually, but this apparent erratic behavior VLC has is really leaving a bad aftertaste... In skinned interface right-click only works for a while after opening VLC, some options are sometimes not saved, doesn't remember if it was set to randomly play all tracks, etc

[VLC_help]

msn to msnmsgr shouldn't fix anything since the name of the module is msn
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=bl ... tify/msn.c

[leech88]

there are some posts here in the forums who claim it is required to make it work, and it seemed to work at first when I made the change, before it became impossible to change it at all. but you're probably right, I finally got it working by changing the title format string from {0}-{1} to $a – $b – $t