Media-Info Page sometimes is empty

[MrStools]

Sometimes Media-Info is just empty. No Stats, no Codec-Info etc. Sometimes it works fine. What cn I do? I already had Nightly Builds before 2.0 and now deinstalled 2.0 and reinstalled but without finding a solution.

Any Idea please?

[pencot]

Yes, it happens to me too. And are missing also some video context menu (Audio, Video, Subtitles menus)
It always happens when I double click a video file. VLC starts and play the video but with those problems

If I stop and play again the video (without close VLC) the bugs disappear

[VLC_help]

Is there some file that always causes that?

[pencot]

No, it happens with all files but not always.

I noticed that if I double-click in explorer to open a file and VLC is already open playing another video, the new video has not the issue

[MrStools]

For now I can say every 1st run it shows empty pages, but the next dropped file will be ok.

[VLC_help]

Does it matter how you open the file? (drag&drop vs. double click)

[kosh_ac]

I have exactly the same phenomenon as described here:

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=98664&p=330536#p330536

Only happens when double-clicking a Media-File and not using the native style Interface!

Is this a bug?

Regards from Aachen, Germany,
Guido

[MrStools]

1) I am also not using native style (huh, could this be leading to the bug?)
2) It makes no difference if you doubleclick or drag'n'drop.

[kosh_ac]

1) I am also not using native style (huh, could this be leading to the bug?)

I would say yes, because when using native style interface everything works fine!

2) It makes no difference if you doubleclick or drag'n'drop.

Indeed! Only when opening a media file from within VLC it just works fine and for double-click and drag´n´drop, if
you skip to the start of the video the menu is also as it has to be!?

Very strange!

Regards,
Guido

[VLC_help]

So you only have this issue with Skins2 interface?

[kosh_ac]

So you only have this issue with Skins2 interface?

For me this happens only with custom skins (tried 5 different ones)!

Regards,
Guido

[VLC_help]

Thanks. I will ticket this during weekend.

[kosh_ac]

Thanks. I will ticket this during weekend.

You´re welcome!

Regards,
Guido

[VLC_help]

Ticket is http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6309

[erwan10]

This is a second issue with the same origin : the qt4 main input manager failing to initialize correctly
(see also viewtopic.php?f=2&t=98332&p=329017#p329017)

A patch was applied and backported on Feb 21st. Recent nightly builds should already fix this problem.