How to disable volume control with mouse wheel

[prhammer]

I am using VLC to play a series of movies at a Film Festival. I need to disable the mouse wheel volume adjustment (so that the mouse wheel will not adjust the volume). It seems that I read that this preference had been added but I can't find it for the life of me.

The ability to create video playlists is a wonderful feature that is very helpful for this use. But I am worried about bumping the mouse wheel and blowing the house away with a big jump in the volume!

Thanks,
Ron

[fkuehne]

It's well hidden indeed. Go to the Preferences panel and switch to "all" at the bottom of the window. Then, navigate to the following sub-category on the left hand side: Interface -> Hotkeys settings -> Hotkeys. There you'll find the option "Mouse Wheel X-axis Control", which you can set to "Volume Control", "Position Control" or "Ignore".

Save the settings afterwards and restart VLC to let your changes take effect.

[prhammer]

Thank you very much! I knew it had to be there, but I guess I just didn't see that last level down from "Hotkeys settings -> Hotkeys".

Great program. I appreciate all the hard work that goes into it.

-Ron

[ka65536]

I have set "Ignore" in MouseWheel x-axis Control, but why can't I disable the volume control and position control?

[rsalmei]

If I set "Ignore" in MouseWheel x-axis Control, it also disables the position control!!!
And if I set it to Position, the OTHER axis gets volume control....... grrrrrr
Sorry, but this is stupid. Why is it mandatory to have both or none enabled?
I want my trackpad controlling position with left-right gestures, but ignoring up-down gestures. Is it too much to ask??

[fkuehne]

I understand the need for such an option, however nobody implemented this so far, probably for 2 reasons:
1) we weren't aware of the need
2) nobody wanted to do that due to lack of time or whatever. Remembering that this is a volunteer driven projects, so most folks work on what they want to, only.

1) can easily by fixed by you by filing a feature enhancement report on http://trac.videolan.org/vlc

[rsalmei]

Great! Thank you buddy for your kind info.
I´ll do that.

[rsalmei]

I have opened a ticket, #5883.

[fkuehne]

Thanks. As you see, it was already forwarded to the correct people