[vlc] Re: [ANN] VLC 0.5.0

[yakima at clbry.de]

On Dienstag, Feb 4, 2003, at 17:50 Europe/Berlin, Derk-Jan Hartman  
wrote:

> On dinsdag, feb 4, 2003, at 00:48 Europe/Amsterdam, yakima at clbry.de  
> wrote:
>> Just some observations i have made using vlc 0.5.0 on MacOSX - i  
>> really don't have time for anything more detailed (verbose output and  
>> the like), but i wanted to give some feedback on some maybe trivial  
>> issues (all using the gui) and maybe find out if others know more/  
>> experience the same:
>> - i guess divx-subtitles do not work yet for macosx? (if they do:  
>> how?)
> well you figured this one out i see (reading the list ;)

no comment .. ;)

>> - strangely enough, there are no shortcuts for some useful controls,  
>> e.g.: pause, play
> Hmm, tried hitting the spacebar yet ;-) Only the most common shortcut  
> to play/pause a video in most Media Players.
>
that's a great feat! i was so used to the old shortcuts ..

>> - is it really a wanted behavior that vlc starts playing files  
>> immediately, same if paused and the slider is moved?

> It doesn't always play files immediately. If you use the Open dialog  
> and tell it to enqueue and not play or if you drag and drop files in  
> the playlist then they don't start to play immediately. If you  
> double-click a file,  drag and drop it on the vlc icon or use the open  
> File menu it plays immediately. I'm thinking about changing the  
> default value in the Open dialog to "Always enqueue" for the next  
> release though.
>
that seems a great idea! alt: have an option like qt ..


>> - responsiveness of the program is not too good at least on older  
>> macs (g3-400); as soon as you mess with e.g. screen size, you have to  
>> be rather patient (could that be some bug?) - even more testing: when  
>> playing a dvd, vlc does not let anything interfere, no force quit,  
>> only a forced restart (or is there a way to tell vlc to quit?)
>
> Well, with the previous version everyone was complaining that they  
> wanted higher thread priorities, so we changed this. This isn't meant  
> to happen of course. we will tweak this for the next release.

that'd be great :)

>> - strange as well, fullsceen playback of divx content seems to be  
>> slower than normal size (before it was rather the other way around)
>
> might be, because the fullscreen view is scaled i guess. It is rather  
> so that we probably cleaned up the normal windowed view, that it now  
> finally is in the state it should be.
>
well, with osx and all the anti-aliasing, a little scaling shouldn't be  
that bad if none of all these renderings  is to be done .. maybe it is  
not real fullscreen though or some minor mishap, because the dock  
remains on top for some time, that's usually a hint at some  
interferences i have encountered with older games  .. i am rather sure  
that qt fullscreen is always better than "normal" ie unscaled .. but  
maybe i just need a new mac ;)

>> - (this again pertaining to slower macs) it seems that the ffmepg  
>> codec is slower on mp4 files than on avi files; is there a reason for  
>> that? do mp4 files need to be hinted for better playback even if used  
>> locally?
>
> No idea. The mp4 file handling is newer then the .avi and probably  
> less optimized.
>
>> - is there any documentation on the various options, particularly  
>> ffmpeg (i have checked the docs, looked around ffmpeg)?
>
> Hmmmm, no. You are welcome to write it ;) And don't forgot that if you  
> hover the mouse over a textfield or something usually a textpopup  
> shows explaining it's function.
>
well, the popups is all i need - if i find i know more than they tell,  
i'll be glad to write some (otherwise it is rather pointless i fear)

>> Well, thanks once more for this nice app, hope i don't bother you too  
>> much ...
>> yakima
>
> Never a bother.
> greetings Derk-Jan Hartman
>
Thanks a lot!
yakima
>
>> On Montag, Feb 3, 2003, at 20:09 Europe/Berlin, Sam Hocevar wrote:
>>
>>>    The VideoLAN team is absolutely delighted to announce version  
>>> 0.5.0
>>> of VLC, the most beautiful cross-platform multimedia player that has  
>>> a
>>> traffic cone as its logo, codenamed "sleeping is for weenies".
>>>
>>>
>>>    It is our extreme pleasure to deliver the following long-awaited
>>> major features:
>>>
>>>     - DVD navigation
>>>
>>>     - new stream output architecture, allowing to act as a stream  
>>> server
>>>
>>>     - new audio output architecture, with S/PDIF support,  
>>> multi-channel
>>>       support, volume setting
>>>
>>>     - new codecs: Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, ADPCM, Xvid, DV, and many more
>>>
>>>     - support for DivX subtitles
>>>
>>>     - a Mozilla plugin based on VLC
>>>
>>>     - localization support
>>>
>>>
>>>    Unfortunately the feature list would be too long to post here, and
>>> spam filters would block it because there is so much sexy stuff in  
>>> it,
>>> thus we suggest you have a look at the release notes here:
>>>
>>>      http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS
>>>
>>>
>>>    You can download VLC for most operating systems here:
>>>
>>>      http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>>>
>>>
>>>    Enjoy!
>>>
>>> -- Sam.
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