Marquee 'jumpy' - very distracting

[appyface]

Am using VLC media player 2.0.1 on Win7 SP1 32-bit. Don't think this is OS specific but if it is, please move my thread to appropriate forum, thank you.

I have been using the marquee for several VLC versions, to display the current system time, the elapsed play time and the total time of the media. I did this so I can see these values in full screen mode.

The current system time (HH:MM) is on one line, the elapsed play/total time (both HH:MM:SS) is on the line below. The entire marquee is set to display in the lower right corner with both lines right-justified. This has been working well, with the changing of seconds and minutes quietly replacing those before them very unobtrusively. No scrolling or other effects, just the time displays 'ticking away' in the lower right corner.

Since 2.0 this is not the case. Both lines "jump" sideways and back very quickly as part of changing the displayed times. It is typically more evident in full screen mode than in a 'regular' normal display but happens in both. Sometimes in 'regular' mode it will seem stable for short time then start jumping again.

This sideways jumping can be made more evident by adjusting the aspect ratio for playback, say from 4:3 to widescreen 16:9. The marquee is now not in the lower right corner but moved inward along the bottom, and the marquee can easily be seen 'sliding around' on every change.

This my line for the marquee text: %H:%M$_$T / $D
Marquee position bottom right, x and y offsets are 0
Font opacity 255, color white, size 16
Timeout 0, refresh ms 1000

Is there anything I can do, to get the marquee to display as unobtrusively as it did before, quietly replacing just the changed digits and leaving the rest appearing unmoved/unchanged? The marquee is now very distracting. Thank you for any help.

Kind regards,
--appyface

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

FIle a bug with screenshots.

[appyface]

Will do. Thank you!

[appyface]

Apologies for not filing the bug report. I'm now using 2.0.4 and still have the problem. I found existing bug report #6225 and added my comments to that one. The workaround tip there, to change the marquee timeout to 1 ms, has also stopped the flickering/jumping for me.

Kind regards,
--appyface