Release : VLC media player 0.8.2

[Dandruff]

Imho its time to extensive bugseek. And for the first bugfix-only-release. Without new features.

exactly!

[The DJ]

Imho its time to extensive bugseek. And for the first bugfix-only-release. Without new features.

exactly!

VLC has a serious deficiency in developers. We develop what we need and want personally a lot of the time. However VLC has gotten so large that this isn't a proper development cycle anymore. Still without the development team of programs like MPlayer, we just can't do that much.

Still the introduction of our trac system: http://trac.videolan.org
has made quite a difference already in a few weeks. hopefully the proces will improve over time. The fact remains however that without a developer that cares about certain modules because they are HIS, (like the portaudio module), their stability will just be very flacky.

[Dandruff]

yes. i understand you! can you give me an email-adress of the portaudio-guy, so that i can contact him directly?

[Guest]

Big Bug: not work native Mpeg-4 AVC in Matroska,
when we shall see menues in Matroska?

[Alexsource]

Activating any of the deinterlace filters on some files make vlc crash (it works with low res mpeg1 .mpgs , hangs up with just about everything else, even if it's low res)... I remember something similar happening looong ago, in 0.7.2 or 0.8.0... not sure.
Windows xp pro sp1

[jvh]

@ jvh: BTW. You seem to have certain knowledge on programming for Mac OS X. Are you interested in taking part of VLC's future development? It is not as hard as it might seem actually.

If I can help you on testing new builds of videolan, I'm happy to do so.
I'm not really a programmer, but as IT-consultant, I need the latest software available...

Thanks for the tip !

[Guest]

After upgrading from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2, I am unable keep VLC open. Within max 8 secs it unexpectedly quits. This happens both when I just open VLC from apps folder, or when i click a file that opens in VLC - it will play a few seconds, then just quit. 0.8.1 worked fine, but reinstalling htat didn't help either...

Restarts, repaired permissions etc no worky.

OSX v 10.4.1, had APE installed but after reading above posts unistalled it to no avail.

Got the same problem here, only using OSX 10.3.9.

[jvh]

This means the unsanity software is making the VLC application crash.
Unsanity APE is still a hack. and running on an unstable 10.4.2 Developer software release as well. That's like two unstable elements on top of eachother.

Disabling APE does not entirely solves my problem...

Date/Time: 2005-06-28 00:03:30.579 +0200
OS Version: 10.4.2 (Build 8C40)
Report Version: 3

Command: VLC
Path: /Users/jvh/Applications jvh/UTILITIES/vlc/vlc-0.8.2/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
Parent: WindowServer [125]

Version: 0.8.2 (0.8.2)

PID: 561
Thread: 3

Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006)
Code[0]: 0x00000001
Code[1]: 0x92898120


Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000a778 mach_msg_trap + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000a6bc mach_msg + 60
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9074b3d8 __CFRunLoopRun + 832
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9074acdc CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93123be0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93123274 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 380
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x931230e0 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 96
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x9362c1a4 _DPSNextEvent + 384
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x9362be68 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x936283cc -[NSApplication run] + 472
10 org.videolan.vlc 0x000acf18 Run + 148 (crt.c:300)
11 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000b99c RunInterface + 704 (crt.c:300)
12 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000b63c intf_RunThread + 292 (crt.c:300)
13 org.videolan.vlc 0x00008cc4 VLC_AddIntf + 320 (crt.c:300)
14 org.videolan.vlc 0x00002d78 main + 184 (crt.c:300)
15 org.videolan.vlc 0x000029f0 _start + 380 (crt.c:267)
16 org.videolan.vlc 0x00002870 start + 48

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90042ae8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900428a0 nanosleep + 384
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x00043df8 msleep + 100 (crt.c:300)
3 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000d0f0 RunThread + 1328 (crt.c:300)
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90042ae8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900428a0 nanosleep + 384
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x00043df8 msleep + 100 (crt.c:300)
3 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000d614 RunPreparse + 584 (crt.c:300)
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 3 Crashed:
0 com.apple.Foundation 0x92898120 _NSRaiseError + 264
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x92897e5c +[NSException raise:format:] + 40
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x92866d94 -[NSPlaceholderDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:count:] + 116
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x928869a4 +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:forKey:] + 68
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x93718de0 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 296
5 org.videolan.vlc 0x000acf08 Run + 132 (crt.c:300)
6 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000b99c RunInterface + 704 (crt.c:300)
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90042ae8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900428a0 nanosleep + 384
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x00043df8 msleep + 100 (crt.c:300)
3 libhotkeys_plugin.dylib 0x03201710 Run + 320
4 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000b99c RunInterface + 704 (crt.c:300)
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 5:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90042ae8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900428a0 nanosleep + 384
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x00043df8 msleep + 100 (crt.c:300)
3 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000bd50 Manager + 64 (crt.c:300)
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 6:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9004ca38 syscall_thread_switch + 8
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x928955d0 +[NSThread sleepUntilDate:] + 152
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x000aa034 -[VLCMain manage] + 816 (crt.c:300)
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x9287d1d4 forkThreadForFunction + 108
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 3 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x0000000092898120 srr1: 0x000000000202f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x24000442 xer: 0x0000000000000007 lr: 0x00000000928980f8 ctr: 0x0000000092859f5c
r0: 0x0000000000000000 r1: 0x00000000f0203b60 r2: 0x00000000a2857508 r3: 0x00000000f0203710
r4: 0x0000000000000000 r5: 0x0000000092859884 r6: 0x00000000f0203794 r7: 0x00000000000000ff
r8: 0x00000000f0203780 r9: 0x0000000001b1f530 r10: 0x0000000001c00ef3 r11: 0x0000000024000442
r12: 0x0000000092859f5c r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x0000000000000000 r22: 0x00000000003eb6e4 r23: 0x00000000f0203d00
r24: 0x00000000f0203d04 r25: 0x0000000001b72e50 r26: 0x0000000000000001 r27: 0x0000000090a08440
r28: 0x0000000001b777c0 r29: 0x00000000a285c7fc r30: 0x00000000f0203c20 r31: 0x0000000092898028

[The DJ]

NSRaiseError. I have seen this before. you need to delete your org.videolan.vlc.plist preference file.

[jvh]

NSRaiseError. I have seen this before. you need to delete your org.videolan.vlc.plist preference file.

I deleted that file, but still crashing after a few seconds...

Date/Time: 2005-06-28 11:20:07.146 +0200
OS Version: 10.4.2 (Build 8C40)
Report Version: 3

Command: VLC
Path: /Users/jvh/Applications jvh/UTILITIES/vlc/vlc-0.8.2/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
Parent: WindowServer [125]

Version: 0.8.2 (0.8.2)

PID: 1230
Thread: 3

Exception: EXC_BREAKPOINT (0x0006)
Code[0]: 0x00000001
Code[1]: 0x92898120


Thread 0:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000a778 mach_msg_trap + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9000a6bc mach_msg + 60
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9074b3d8 __CFRunLoopRun + 832
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9074acdc CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 268
4 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93123be0 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 264
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93123274 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 380
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x93168540 AcquireNextEventInMode + 72
7 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x931cdc7c IsUserStillTracking(MenuSelectData*, unsigned char*) + 252
8 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x931baec4 TrackMenuCommon(MenuSelectData&, unsigned char*) + 756
9 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x931b8c58 MenuSelectCore(MenuData*, Point, double, unsigned long, OpaqueMenuRef**, unsigned short*) + 188
10 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x931b8818 MenuSelect + 100
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x9362eabc _NSHandleCarbonMenuEvent + 168
12 com.apple.AppKit 0x9362c4ec _DPSNextEvent + 1224
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x9362be68 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x936283cc -[NSApplication run] + 472
15 org.videolan.vlc 0x000acf18 Run + 148 (crt.c:300)
16 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000b99c RunInterface + 704 (crt.c:300)
17 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000b63c intf_RunThread + 292 (crt.c:300)
18 org.videolan.vlc 0x00008cc4 VLC_AddIntf + 320 (crt.c:300)
19 org.videolan.vlc 0x00002d78 main + 184 (crt.c:300)
20 org.videolan.vlc 0x000029f0 _start + 380 (crt.c:267)
21 org.videolan.vlc 0x00002870 start + 48

Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90042ae8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900428a0 nanosleep + 384
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x00043df8 msleep + 100 (crt.c:300)
3 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000d0f0 RunThread + 1328 (crt.c:300)
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90042ae8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900428a0 nanosleep + 384
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x00043df8 msleep + 100 (crt.c:300)
3 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000d614 RunPreparse + 584 (crt.c:300)
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 3 Crashed:
0 com.apple.Foundation 0x92898120 _NSRaiseError + 264
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x92897e5c +[NSException raise:format:] + 40
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x92866d94 -[NSPlaceholderDictionary initWithObjects:forKeys:count:] + 116
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x928869a4 +[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:forKey:] + 68
4 com.apple.AppKit 0x93718de0 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 296
5 org.videolan.vlc 0x000acf08 Run + 132 (crt.c:300)
6 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000b99c RunInterface + 704 (crt.c:300)
7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 4:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90042ae8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900428a0 nanosleep + 384
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x00043df8 msleep + 100 (crt.c:300)
3 libhotkeys_plugin.dylib 0x03201710 Run + 320
4 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000b99c RunInterface + 704 (crt.c:300)
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 5:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90042ae8 mach_wait_until + 8
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900428a0 nanosleep + 384
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x00043df8 msleep + 100 (crt.c:300)
3 org.videolan.vlc 0x0000bd50 Manager + 64 (crt.c:300)
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 6:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9004ca38 syscall_thread_switch + 8
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x928955d0 +[NSThread sleepUntilDate:] + 152
2 org.videolan.vlc 0x000aa034 -[VLCMain manage] + 816 (crt.c:300)
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x9287d1d4 forkThreadForFunction + 108
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9002c3d4 _pthread_body + 96

Thread 3 crashed with PPC Thread State 64:
srr0: 0x0000000092898120 srr1: 0x000000000202f030 vrsave: 0x0000000000000000
cr: 0x24000422 xer: 0x0000000000000007 lr: 0x00000000928980f8 ctr: 0x0000000092859f5c
r0: 0x0000000000000000 r1: 0x00000000f0203b60 r2: 0x00000000a2857508 r3: 0x00000000f0203710
r4: 0x0000000000000000 r5: 0x0000000092859884 r6: 0x00000000f0203794 r7: 0x00000000000000ff
r8: 0x00000000f0203780 r9: 0x0000000001b207d0 r10: 0x0000000001c00e92 r11: 0x0000000024000422
r12: 0x0000000092859f5c r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x0000000000000000 r15: 0x0000000000000000
r16: 0x0000000000000000 r17: 0x0000000000000000 r18: 0x0000000000000000 r19: 0x0000000000000000
r20: 0x0000000000000000 r21: 0x0000000000000000 r22: 0x00000000003eb6e4 r23: 0x00000000f0203d00
r24: 0x00000000f0203d04 r25: 0x0000000001b70530 r26: 0x0000000000000001 r27: 0x0000000090a08440
r28: 0x0000000001b74780 r29: 0x00000000a285c7fc r30: 0x00000000f0203c20 r31: 0x0000000092898028

[Cosmik]

Hello,
I have noticed some problems running dvd with subtitles on the last version of vlc (Windows XP, vlc 0.8.2)
Sometimes it appears grey and blur so that the text is badly visible.
It also don't recognize very well the subtitles
the 3 subtitle is in fact the second wich is french.
The dvd I run (Mars Attacks) appears to be perfectly functionning on windows media player.
Is that a problem from my configuration?
Cosmik

[kayrin]

Somehow version 0.8.2 still doesn't fix the screensaver problem for me. Using WinXP on a Dell Inspiron 6000. Is there any trick that i miss?

[dionoea]

Somehow version 0.8.2 still doesn't fix the screensaver problem for me. Using WinXP on a Dell Inspiron 6000. Is there any trick that i miss?

Did you add "screensaver" in the interfaces list ? (in the prefs)

[zorglub]

The "screensaver" interface is only for linux. It should work out of the box under Windows

[The DJ]

Try resetting the preferences. Last time it didn't work for someone, he resetted his prefs and then the screensaver was properly blocked. (I have NO clue why.)

[number8838]

I'm pleased that version 0.8.2 is out--and hopeful that it will work with FC4 and I will have VLC again.

But where is it?

If I go to the Fedora Core download page I get version 0.8.1
I found an RPM on stantz.freshrpms but it has dependency issues (with things that don't seem to exist).

[jongampark]

After upgrading from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2, I am unable keep VLC open. Within max 8 secs it unexpectedly quits. This happens both when I just open VLC from apps folder, or when i click a file that opens in VLC - it will play a few seconds, then just quit. 0.8.1 worked fine, but reinstalling htat didn't help either...

Restarts, repaired permissions etc no worky.

OSX v 10.4.1, had APE installed but after reading above posts unistalled it to no avail.

Got the same problem here, only using OSX 10.3.9.

I have extactly the same problem.
I use the MacOS X 10.4.1.

[johnclubvec]

Vector Linux 4.0
kernel 2.4.28
gcc 3.2.2

As in previous tests of 0.8.2, the "repeat all" and "repeat one" buttons in the Playlist window do not function.

I was able to get a repeat playback via checking that in Preferences/Playlist/General and saving the new Preferences. So the problem seems to be the lack of functioning of the buttons in the Playlist window itself.

Thanks.

[jvh]

After upgrading from 0.8.1 to 0.8.2, I am unable keep VLC open. Within max 8 secs it unexpectedly quits. This happens both when I just open VLC from apps folder, or when i click a file that opens in VLC - it will play a few seconds, then just quit. 0.8.1 worked fine, but reinstalling htat didn't help either...

Restarts, repaired permissions etc no worky.

OSX v 10.4.1, had APE installed but after reading above posts unistalled it to no avail.

Got the same problem here, only using OSX 10.3.9.

I have extactly the same problem.
I use the MacOS X 10.4.1.

me2, exactly the same !!!

[Guest]

Wouldn't it be sensible to remove 0.82 from download on the OSX version and leave 0.81 until this is sorted?

[fkuehne]

Wouldn't it be sensible to remove 0.82 from download on the OSX version and leave 0.81 until this is sorted?

No, because 0.8.2 works for at least 433,407 people (only on OSX. there are at least 1,350,528 windows users as well) and only the few who tried APE have problems with it.
Additionally, 0.8.1 features much more serious bugs than 0.8.2.

Note that you can still download 0.8.1, if you wish to.

[Mac OS X User]

I am running 10.3.9 and QuickTime 7.0.1. When I first installed 0.8.2 over the previous 0.8.1, I had the beachball of death but not the crashing reported in previous posts. I am NOT running any of the Unsanity haxies. After removing the org.videolan.vlc.plist file, the beachball is gone and I can run VLC fine again.

Thanks for a great piece of cross-platform software.

[Mac OSX User]

I found a possible source of the crashing -- it happened to me when I decided to enable the "Mac OS X interface" extra interface module and changed nothing else.

I had to delete my preferences again, but also the vlcrc file in ~/Library/Preferences/VLC/ in order to get it back to normal. Perhaps this is a solution for the others who are getting crashes?

[palass]

Hi.
Love yr media player. Even better now. However I noticed that it wouldn't play dts on a dvd I was playing and when I used 0.8.1 it still played DTS. Don't know if that's a bug or not.
Fixing the time is nice although I can't seem to save a snapshot. I did select a folder under preferences but it's always empty.
Like the way you have redone the preferences; it's much more user friendly.

[MetalSnake]

The bug that doesn´t allow a slash ('/') in file/folder names is back again, it remember this bug in 0.7.2beta or something after a report it got fixed in the next version. Now it´s back again in 0.8.2

Mac OS X 10.4.1