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Re: Squashing Bugs

By stippi - Posted on October 1, 2002 - 15:19:43 (#3388)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4c

The crash on exit, that only happens on Dano? Read below... :-)

-Stephan

Re: Squashing Bugs

By Androo - Posted on September 29, 2002 - 19:02:48 (#3367)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4c

I had meant to say "fix that crash on exit", my appologies.

Squashing bugs...

By stippi - Posted on September 29, 2002 - 18:44:01 (#3365)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4c

To Androo: "Fix that crashing bug..." - Which one?!? You gotta be more precise. VLC used to be "stripped" for a release, but I did not do that, so you can enter the Debugger, type "sc" hit enter and copy and paste the (human readable, thanks to not stripping) result into an email.
Gamma Correction would indeed be a nice feature. I do know how to do that, but the performance hit might be dramatic. On Windows, you have of course the grafix board doing the job, but on BeOS, I yould have to code that myself. I can try, maybe people with fast machines would enjoy.....

To EdZonneveld: I'll look into this. The crash when quitting is on Dano, right? Slim chances of me fixing this, see recent talkback below.

To Elver: I already have made up a plan how to fix this. I don't know when the next release will be ready though.

Keep the suggestions comming, and please email stack crawls whenever it crashed.

-Stephan

fullscreen not working from the console

By Elver Loho - Posted on September 29, 2002 - 17:52:08 (#3364)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4c

--fullscreen does nothing. I discovered this in 0.4.3 already when trying to enqueue lots of videos from bash, play them fullscreen and then slap on BeTVOut for an enjoyable evening. And it still doesnt work. I have to manually right click and select fullscreen each time a new playlist item starts playing :/

subtitle menu OK (4.04c)

By EdZonneveld - Posted on September 29, 2002 - 14:19:10 (#3361)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4c

The menu is back again and is is not only working OK but is is not empty anymore, it says "default"! Good work.
Speed controls are allright the Chapter part is OK but in the
title part is something wrong. " Next Title" causes a crash, "Prev Title" and "go to title" are working :-).
Quiting and the end of a Title or DVD crashed here.

Thanks

Ed

Gamma Correction?

By Androo - Posted on September 29, 2002 - 01:40:22 (#3355)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4c

Was wondering if there's going to be a way to do any gamma correction on the output video? Give me a way to adjust brightness and contrast and you will be my personal God =)

VideoLAN's now working better here on BeOS than on Linux (and has a better interface), so great job!! Fix that crashing bug and give me a gamma control panel and I'll be a happy man.

Re: subtitle selection & Screenshot feature

By stippi - Posted on September 26, 2002 - 14:45:57 (#3323)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

I have indeed messed arround with the subtitle menu (is that what you mean by "window"?). I have found that VLC is sometimes giving an empty string as name for a subtitle track. However, in my tests, selecting empty subtitles never worked, so I stripped those from the menu. Maybe I should leave them in and call them "Unkown", that's what I do for the Language menu.

For the next version, I have improved the Screenshot feature, it now saves aspect corrected (ie scaled) bitmaps. However, my converting routines currently only cover RGB16 and YCbCr422 colorspaces. VLC supports more, namely YCbCr420 and YUV422. Has anyone actually come across a movie of which it was not possible to take screen shots? I would like to know, though I figure I might not be able to work this out, since my gfx board only supports YCbCr422 as overlay mode. Anyways I'd like to know if the Screenshot feature is not working for some users or individual movies.

Thanks & Regards,
-Stephan

By DaaT - Posted on September 25, 2002 - 16:18:06 (#3311)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Thanks Stephan, no worries :)

As long as it keeps playing my DVDs (now with HW overlay.. YAY) perfectly, crashing on exit isn't a big deal, afterall, i wanted to exit the program :D

Keep up the great work (along with Tony), am looking forward to vlc 0.5

Take care,
DaaT

subtitle is gone in this version?

By EdZonneveld - Posted on September 25, 2002 - 09:59:52 (#3309)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

The controls for faster, slower next chapter are all working now but the subtitle selection window is gone :-(

In the other version it is working but the field to select subtitle was blank, but still working when clicked on that empty space where it should be.

Ed

Re: One Window?

By stippi - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 17:02:25 (#3297)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

This is actually an idea I had rolling in my head for quite some time. When you look at the VLC TODO list, you see this item on top of the wish list. I think I could come up with a solution for the 0.4.4 tree, however, there are some implications, that make it not so straight forward. If you have looked at the available filters and effects, there is one called "tile" or something similar. This plugin splits the video in 9 distinct parts and for each one, it opens a seperate video output window, though only one interface window is showing. So you see, if I played some tricks to combine the video and intercace window, I would break other stuff. In this particular case, I cannot spot a good argument for not ignoring that filter, but it serves as a good example, of how the current VLC design works, and what it expects from plugins.
Combining the interface and video windows would be quite a dramatic change, but the benefits are not so visible - or are there arguments for doing it that I don't see? Anyways, I currently see other areas, where VLC can yet be improved, where the benefit seems in better proportion to the effort.

Regards,
-Stephan

One Window?

By BePage - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 16:17:30 (#3295)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

What about make it "one windowed" like the BeOS Media Player and When running in fullscreen to have it like it is now.

greetings
BePage

Sorry Daat, but you're out of luck

By stippi - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 14:57:10 (#3292)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Even though I do have a Dano install, I never use it and since it has some kind of broken makefile.engine, I cannot build any software on Dano. My development system is a plain R5.0.3 with some files from the MediaKit beta. That's what I can test on.

-Stephan

EEEK

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:04:08 (#3283)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

AAAACK!!!!!

What the ....?!?!?! Bezilla gave me a "the document contains no data" msg, clicked OK, clicked on Submit again ONE TIME... and it got sent EIGHT TIMES?!?!?!?

AARRRRGGGHHH

Anyhow, sorry to everyone... ggggrrrrrrrrrr

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:26 (#3282)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:20 (#3281)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:18 (#3280)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:16 (#3279)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:15 (#3278)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:13 (#3277)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:12 (#3276)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:11 (#3275)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:09 (#3273)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

By DaaT - Posted on September 24, 2002 - 02:02:09 (#3274)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Stephan, great work by the way :)

I'm running Dano, and.. other than the OS itself, no other betas. Running it on an Athlon XP, soundcard is a SoundBlaster Live! Value.

Any more questions, shoot :) *ducking*

Re: Crash on Stop

By stippi - Posted on September 23, 2002 - 21:47:04 (#3266)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Daat,

what BeOS version are you on, and have you installed any Beta(s)? VLC in it's current form has still many squirks, lock-ups here and there and plain crashes from time to time or reproducably with certain files/DVDs. However, since I work on it, I've never seen a crash in the audio thread. Hm.

-Stephan

Crash on Stop

By DaaT - Posted on September 23, 2002 - 14:59:32 (#3264)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hi Tony (Stippi), this version crashes again when stopping playback. Lib problem again?

Here's the sc:
loading symbols
segment violation occurred
_free_internal:
_free_internal:
+011b ec06231b: * 0c7289 movl %esi, 0x0000000c(%edx)
audio output:sc
frame retaddr
fd29bbb4 ec0624ab _free + 0000002b
fd29bbd8 ec04e8ca free + 0000005e
fd29bbf4 800370c7 aout_FreeFifo + 00000027
audio output:

Keep up the great work guys.

By doh - Posted on September 23, 2002 - 14:42:45 (#3263)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4b

Hey folks, good work again, now I can watch Das Boot and Delicatessen in their native languages :D

lpcm

By stippi - Posted on September 20, 2002 - 16:58:33 (#3219)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

It seems lpcm is generally broken in 0.4.4. I have no lpcm encoded DVD's or whatever streams use this format. So I never actually came across this problem. Seeing that for 0.5.0 (not released yet), the audio stuff has undergone heavy work, it might be a waste of time to try to fix this problem in these intermediate releases of the old 0.4.4 branch. The purpose of those is mainly in improving the BeOS plugin itself, not VLC. (Hm. I did fix the subtitles for 0.4.4b, but that was easy though.)
Bottom line: for VLC specific bugfixes, you might have to hold your breath until 0.5.0 ... sorry.

-Stephan

lpcm audio just buzzes

By verranm - Posted on September 17, 2002 - 21:18:17 (#3188)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

Tony,

I've got a Music-DVD (New Order - 316, 8573-84802-2) which has the audio encoded as lpcm/stereo. This used to play fine but just seems to buzz now. The picture is fine.

Any ideas?

Re Plugins.

By tonycastley - Posted on September 9, 2002 - 08:54:20 (#3077)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

I statically linked the plugins since every time I set them as dynamic they produce a segfault every time I exit vlc. I am hoping that with libdl.so and a recompile with dynamic plugins the problem will go away.

Tony

By BGA - Posted on September 7, 2002 - 15:02:19 (#3052)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

Ah... Plugins are statically linked on this one. Any idea why?

-Bruno

Re: Re: hangs & no window

By BGA - Posted on September 7, 2002 - 15:01:10 (#3051)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

I "fixed" the problem. Looking at the syslog I noticed it was trying to grow an area bigger than 341 Mb (and that seemed to be the limit) so it just hang when trying to do it. Anyway, a reboot was enough. :)

I still have a small problem though. As I live in Brazil I usually watch the movies with the original sound but with subtitles in portuguese. Here the subtitles were completelly unreadable. It is like each scanline that composed the text was shifted to the right when compared to the previous scanline so all I got was garbage.

The video card is a GEForce 2 Ti, BTW. Overlays are being used.

Now, stippi, how about creating an encoder module for it so we can encode the DVD as, say, DivX? :)

-Bruno

do you need libdl ?

By titer - Posted on September 7, 2002 - 13:03:57 (#3050)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

I did build latest CVS without it :|

By doh - Posted on September 6, 2002 - 13:19:09 (#3042)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

Videolan kicks ass. Love your work, kudos to Stippi for the extras. As soon as we have menu-support we'll be up to par :D

By tonycastley - Posted on September 6, 2002 - 06:37:07 (#3040)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

Sorry about the problem with the new lib requirement. That was indeed my fault. Stippi who did nearly all of the new work did tell me it was required, but as I had installed it about a week before (for Mozilla) I forgot to mention it in the change log.

I will update the change log now and apologise again for the confusion.

Tony

not quite so...

By Jess - Posted on September 5, 2002 - 15:24:14 (#3032)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

I'm not trying to be rude but simply stating that while the change log might not say it needs it the download page does. It's not in your face or super obvious but occasionaly we all run accross things like this & it's a good rule of thumb to first off search BeBits for what it's missing. Now how's about we go for Pizza & out this whole thing behind us shall we?
Idéfix you pay'n?

Related Links:

libdl.so (requied for layout)
VideoLan Project Page

By doh - Posted on September 5, 2002 - 14:51:50 (#3031)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

This has happened a couple of times recently; the authors of software have linked against libdl.so without meaning to or without informing the users.
True enough, it is a simple fix to download the library, but its hardly fair to expect an end user to be able to solve this problem.
FYI libdl.so is a development tool and has no relevance on the end user. Give the guy a chance.

Re: Uh so why dont you just down load it?

By Idéfix - Posted on September 5, 2002 - 13:11:08 (#3029)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

Maybe because 0.4.4 didn't need it and the changelog says nothing about a new library needed?

Uh so why dont you just down load it?

By Jess - Posted on September 5, 2002 - 11:48:52 (#3028)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

Ya missing libray... it says on the VLC page you need this libray & gives you the link.

http://www.bebits.com/app/2917

Re: hangs & no window

By Idéfix - Posted on September 5, 2002 - 10:51:14 (#3027)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

When running 0.4.4a, I get an alert saying:
Could not open "vlc" (Missing library: libdl.so).

0.4.4 works just fine.

Re: hangs & no window

By stippi - Posted on September 5, 2002 - 10:35:55 (#3026)
Current version when comment was posted: 0.4.4a

I usually see this behaviour, if app and plugins are from different versions. (Or one of the plugins is from a different version). The problem here is that some of the essential classes that make up a BeOS application are contained in the app itself, some are in the BeOS interface plugin. I don't know all the details... Can you examine the problem with this in mind and maybe give me more info?

-stippi



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