Lot of window properties not working

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Lot of window properties not working

Postby relaht » 15 Aug 2012 18:36

If I start VLC with a command line a lot of window properties seems to be ignored.

e.g.:
--width
--height
--video-x
--video-height
--scale
--no-video-deco
..and more

this is how I start VLC:
e.g.
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC myMovie.mp4 --no-video-deco

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help.

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Re: Lot of window properties not working

Postby fkuehne » 15 Aug 2012 18:46

video-deco was recently added, either to 2.0.3 or 2.1. Please check.

For the others, there is no support for OS X support, while it works on Linux and Windows. This is not of high priority to us (sorry about that), since these options are rarely used by the every day user. However, patches would be welcome and I can provide guidance if you're interested. This isn't hard to do. It just requires a bit of testing to get things right without impacting the existing appearance and behavior.
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Re: Lot of window properties not working

Postby relaht » 15 Aug 2012 19:04

Thanks for the quick answer. Unfortunately I can not help :( (I wish I could!)

I checked video-deco on 2.0.3 and it seems not to work on OS X.

If I can't set width, height and position. It would be nice if VLC would remember the last used size and position!
It works if VLC is playing the Video within the Main-Window but not if playing in a separate window.
Is this normal or do I have to adjust some settings?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Lot of window properties not working

Postby relaht » 16 Aug 2012 11:35

I checked again:

--video-deco
--no-video-deco

--embedded-video
--no-embedded-video


This commands does not work on OS X 10.8 with VLC 2.0.3

Also, VLC does not remember the last position and size, if the video is not within the main window.

Is there any chance for a fix?

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Re: Lot of window properties not working

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 16 Aug 2012 13:26

This will be fixed in 2.0.4 :)
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Re: Lot of window properties not working

Postby fkuehne » 16 Aug 2012 13:26

Hello,

thanks for the report. I fixed these options 10min ago and will fix some other options as well. The patch will be part of VLC 2.0.4. For the meantime, go to VLC's preferences and set them there. The "extra window doesn't remember position" issue was already fixed right after 2.0.3 was published.
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Re: Lot of window properties not working

Postby relaht » 16 Aug 2012 13:40

Thank you so much! This are really good news!
I'm going to donate again today! :)
You guys are making a real good job!

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Re: Lot of window properties not working

Postby relaht » 24 Oct 2012 16:58

I just tested version 2.0.4

--video-deco
--no-video-deco

--embedded-video
--no-embedded-video

This works now! :)

VLC now remembers the last used position :)
but unfortunately VLC still does not remember the last used size. :(

And there is a new issue with 2.0.4, if I set the deinterlace mode to 'discard' or 'mean' the video is in the wrong aspect ratio (always 1:1)

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Re: Lot of window properties not working

Postby relaht » 19 Dec 2012 16:12

Just tested version 2.0.5

The aspect ratio problem has been fixed! :)

but unfortunately VLC still does not remember the last used size. :(

Is there any chance that this will be fixed some day?


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