[vlc] VideoLAN Ticket #3172 related bugs + your code mod

[Michael]

Dear Remi

I hope this post get delivered and you read it, I am a bit lazy registering on VLC forums.

Sometime ago you have made a small fix/mod (M3U) related

Changeset 4256e5f444f2d61a30b8ff22206e9b5dd2e17205
Timestamp:    10/04/09 09:14:56 


The problem is described here too

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=68330&p=227133&hilit=cyrillic#p227133


Apparently your fix had fixed that problem -> Cyrillic MP3 file names
and id3 tags in Win-1251 encoding (unicode/utf-8 is not popular and can
be found only in new MP3 files)which is default for all MP3 files since day 1 
and used on most platforms, but then because of some conflict situation
this fix has been removed, which results in non working Cyrillcs in MP3,
we get umlaut garbage.

Sadly I can't check this fix, since the working night build branch was nicely killed by someone
but many people confirm that it did help.

Any ways, the current 1.1.0 builds from 11-jan-10 still have this problem, garbage names

And that means no Russian filenames on WinXP SP2 & SP3 (tested)

1. Title bar text - garbage
2. Bottom of window - garbage
3. Play list - garbage
4. Goom scope - garbage
5. ID3 tag view/file info - garbage

Can you please look into it again and enable Ticket Bug - 3172


I have also noticed that during first start of VLC, preferably on a
slow/heavy loaded PC it opens the MP3 file, shows Cyrillic/Russian file
name in Title bar and bottom of screen properly! After 1-2 seconds just
before it starts to play it the text is replaced by garbage!

If you need a sample MP3 file, I can send one.


PS: A small idea that is fairly easy to add 

A prefs option to enable new window to open on the active screen,
not the last screen the player was opened before (as it is now)

This is very annoying on multi screen set-ups when the window
opens on the monitor that is turned off.

And to check the active screen is easy - it's the screen where
the mouse pointer is during start-up of VLC


Kind regards,

 Michael