VLC media player 0.8.2-test2 beta release

[chrjohns]

Hi:

I have been playing with 0.8.2-test2 (OS X) and it looks great. I see that meta-information is showing up in the info window ("Now Playing"). Is it possible to have this info show up in the main player window?

Thanks.

[gargoyle]

You really need to fix the subtitles. They don't show up clearly and overlap with the background colors. They were not like that in the pre 0.8.2 tests. If you are in front of the computer screen it's still okay because you are close to the monitor (but not as clear as before), but output it on tv and it becomes hell to read.

Besides that this is and will always be the best player around.

[viperx]

I can't play DVD's on this. I get audio, but just a blue video.

[invité]

with this version and mpg files the subtitle disappear sometimes and go back after a few minutes

mac osx tiger

[Guest]

I was very excited to upgrade to tiger. When I did, I did not realize that WMP and VLC would have issues. Made me angry because I use VLC 80% of the time while at work. Anyway I tried 0.8.2-test2 and looks to work OK. However, when I play a DVD the video is jumpy. Sound is OK though. I can use 0.8.1 and video is very crisp but no audio. Hopefully this will be fixed in the future. As for now I will go back to Panther.

[Fabhans@telkomsa.net]

After a few seconds dvd quits and it is not possible for me to see the whole movie
I downloaded VLC for MAC SO X 10.3.9.
What seems to be the problem??

[Guest]

Some issues with the best player in the world vlc-0.8.2-test2-win32.exe
1) Only video but no audio while playing .bin files
2) Only video but no audio while playing .mp4 files
3) Audio is intermittent while playing some .avi video files
4) The video pixelizes during a fast action scene and also if I change from normal GUI to Extended GUI
5) I am not sure if it is supposed to play .rmvb files. Anyway it doesn't play those even though I have Realone player installed.
6) I am not sure if it is supposed to play .asx files. Anyway it doesn't play those even though I have Windows Media Player version 10 player installed.

Thaks to everbody involved in making this wonderful program.
Sumit

[nobody.loopback]

Opend a .ts stream,
moved the windows to the left screen,
doubled the size, switched back to normal size, clicked the "maximize" button: kernel panic.
Machine: Dual G5, 3GB Ram, OS: 10.4.1,
ATI 9600, 128MB Ram
VLC: 0.8.2-test2

Code: Select all

Sun Jun 19 00:43:08 2005 Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x000000004F6B0588 PC=0x0000000000903004 Latest crash info for cpu 0: Exception state (sv=0x5A27D280) PC=0x00903004; MSR=0x0000B030; DAR=0x4F6B0588; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00902FEC; R1=0x416939F0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access) Backtrace: 0x00000000 0x008E8994 0x002E6018 0x002E7EE4 0x0008C428 0x000291C0 0x000233AC 0x000ABE2C 0x900321C0 backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF070DB60 Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.ATIRadeon9700(4.0.2)@0x8e1000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.6)@0x452000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4)@0x88d000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4)@0x8b1000 Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x5A27D280) previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping... Exception state (sv=0x5A078780) PC=0x9000A778; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x07E4B000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x9000A6BC; R1=0xF070DB60; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call) Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 8.1.0: Tue May 10 18:16:08 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.1.5.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0003): 0x300 - Data access Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0: Backtrace: 0x00095564 0x00095A7C 0x0002683C 0x000A819C 0x000ABB00 Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x5A27D280) PC=0x00903004; MSR=0x0000B030; DAR=0x4F6B0588; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00902FEC; R1=0x416939F0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access) Backtrace: 0x00000000 0x008E8994 0x002E6018 0x002E7EE4 0x0008C428 0x000291C0 0x000233AC 0x000ABE2C 0x900321C0 backtrace terminated - frame not mapped or invalid: 0xF070DB60 Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.ATIRadeon9700(4.0.2)@0x8e1000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.6)@0x452000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.4)@0x88d000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.4)@0x8b1000 Exception state (sv=0x5A078780) PC=0x9000A778; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x07E4B000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x9000A6BC; R1=0xF070DB60; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call) Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Vep *********

It might be the Radeon driver, but unlikely the card itself, since I replaced it. It might be possible that VLC player had an error, but crashing the OS ( I needed 3 restarts to get the machine running again ) by simply playing a Video ?


Somehow, this bug in the ( OS ? ), and the former Azureus bug make me remembering a little the days of OS9. Great computer, great OS, but only if you run a very small and tested set of Applications.

[johnclubvec]

Vector Linux 4.0 (slackware based)
kernel 2.4.28
gcc 3.2.2

For fun I tried to use skins. Got a segmentation fault. Please post if you want additional information.
Here, I think, are the relevant lines from:

vlc -vvv -I skins2

[00000000] main root debug: VLC media player - version 0.8.2-test2 Janus - (c) 1996-2005 VideoLAN
[00000000] main root debug: libvlc was configured with ./configure --enable-dvdread --enable-dvdnav --enable-lame --with-gnu-ld --enable-alsa --enable-faad --with-ffmpeg-faac --enable-flac --enable-portaudio --enable-dvb --enable-v4l --enable-x264 --disable-smb --enable-wxwindows --enable-skins2 --prefix=/usr
[00000896] skins2 interface debug: Using character encoding: ANSI_X3.4-1968
[00000897] main dialogs provider debug: thread 65541 (Skins Dialogs Thread) created at priority 0 (wxwindows.cpp:257)
[00000896] skins2 interface debug: found skin /home/john/.vlc/skins2/default.vlt
[00000896] skins2 interface debug: found skin /usr/share/vlc/skins2/default.vlt
[00000459] main module debug: using interface module "skins2"
[00000896] skins2 interface debug: Using skin file: /tmp/vltavZM0c/theme.xml
[00000898] main private debug: looking for xml module: 4 candidates
[00000470] main module debug: using xml module "xml"
[00000896] skins2 interface debug: Using catalog /home/john/.vlc/skins2/skin.catalog
[00000896] skins2 interface debug: Using DTD /home/john/.vlc/skins2/skin.dtd
[00000896] main interface debug: creating access '' path='/tmp/vltavZM0c/theme.xml'
[00000899] main access debug: looking for access2 module: 8 candidates
[00000899] vcd access debug: trying .cue file: /tmp/vltavZM0c/theme.cue
[00000899] vcd access debug: trying .cue file: /tmp/vltavZM0c/theme.cue
[00000899] access_file access debug: opening file `/tmp/vltavZM0c/theme.xml'
[00000574] main module debug: using access2 module "access_file"
[00000900] main private debug: pre buffering
[00000900] main private debug: received first data for our buffer
[00000896] skins2 interface: skin: VLC OSX Interface author: BigBen
[00000896] skins2 interface debug: Loading font /home/john/.vlc/skins2/fonts/FreeSans.ttf
Segmentation fault

[subzero]

can you add this
save setting to file..set to best quality... set to best performance ......

..or just tell me how to set it to best quality because i have a great computer.

[Guest]

i got a problem with this when i try to playback the shura no toki first eps it frezees from time to time and i miss some subtitles can anyone help me ?
my PC is AMT athlon 2800+ barton, 512MB ram and GF 5200FX

[Denis Gonzalez]

please!!! correct that bug. Not display internal subtitle in mp4 files created with nero 6.6.13 from dvd subtitles(rip). On vlc show the option to display subtitles but not display!!!!

[The DJ]

People people.
Please learn some netiquette.
Please read the sticky items about how you should report bugs etc.
Please don't just drop all your --please stay polite-- in this topic.

[wiak]

VLC realy needs a way to save TV Channels! so we dont need to fine tune every channel we wanna watch and lose it when we close!

BTW: i realy like VLC, Keep up the good work!

[spyrmac]

Hello,

I use VLC since I switched to the Macintosh. It's definitely the ultimate player on this platform.

I'm still under Mac OS 10.3.9 only because of VLC.

I know that the 0.8.2-test2 version is correctly running on Tiger, but it has the green border line bug, which is very annoying for someone watching a lot of movies like me !

And I know that this particular bug has been identified and corrected...

Don't flame me for my impatience... I don't ask for the final 0.8.3, I just would like to know if there is any planned release date for the next 0.8.2-test3 beta version. If not, it's not a big deal...

Keep the good work. Regards...

[fkuehne]

Don't flame me for my impatience... I don't ask for the final 0.8.3, I just would like to know if there is any planned release date for the next 0.8.2-test3 beta version. If not, it's not a big deal...

Keep the good work. Regards...

0.8.2-test3 will be released in less than 2 hours and we hope to ship the final on Saturday or Sunday this week.

[cmosse]

BTW, where can I find the Nightly Builds?
The link
http://www.videolan.org/~videolan/builds
seems to lead to a dead end..

Regards

[fkuehne]

BTW, where can I find the Nightly Builds?
The link
http://www.videolan.org/~videolan/builds
seems to lead to a dead end..

Regards

That's due to the fact that one of our servers is down, so there are no Debian, Win32, WinCE and ActiveX nightlies atm. The server will come back later today. You can find the nightlies for OSX here anyway. The nightlies for BeOS are available as well, but I don't have the link by hand.

[Mephisto]

i'm having a problem building test3 with a unicode build of wxGTK. it stops with the following error:

wizard.cpp:1088: error: invalid cast from type 'const wxCharBuffer' to type 'char*'

i havent tried any older 0.8.2 test versions, but 0.8.1 used to build fine on a unicode wxGTK.

[Guest]

Wanna tell me where you found the test3 version?!?

Regards

[Mephisto]

Same place as test2 used to be:

http://download2.videolan.org/pub/video ... 8.2-test3/

[Mephisto]

i'm having a problem building test3 with a unicode build of wxGTK. it stops with the following error:

wizard.cpp:1088: error: invalid cast from type 'const wxCharBuffer' to type 'char*'

i havent tried any older 0.8.2 test versions, but 0.8.1 used to build fine on a unicode wxGTK.

exactly the same error in test2 btw...

[The DJ]

0.8.2-test3 build is out now. Please test this new version and report in the forum topic linked below.

viewtopic.php?t=10049