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Thanks a lot!
 By edmundf - Posted on December 8, 2006 - 13:52:44   (#21020)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Just how do I make this make my default
player?
I can select anything I want but it files are
still opened with Budlight, VLC 7.2 or whatever.
How do I change that?

thanks for the heads up
 By BeOS Mr X - Posted on December 8, 2006 - 03:03:02   (#21019)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
When I read the ICO article I was dismayed it was only Zeta.. but now I can run this on R5. WMV3 certainly do work... just check ebaumsworld.com and download some stupid vid... but flash files dont work yet. Now my default player.

I've tried the newest beta of VLC
 By maxwell - Posted on December 7, 2006 - 22:30:31   (#21017)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
It works faster than the previous versions (slight faster). Tried with Flash movies, but all I see is nothing - I just hear the sound of the movie. IMHO, it still needs work...but it's the best for BeOS ;)!

vlc-0.8.6-test2a available!
 By Kreezii. - Posted on December 7, 2006 - 20:59:41   (#21016)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
I don't know why nobody update it, well maybe because it isn't a stable release yet but hey BeOS and Zeta now can play wmv9 and Flash Video 8+, two weeks ago in haikunews i see to download the test1 (only for Zeta) and works fine now we can play that ugly format wmv ;P (i don't like but sometimes i've to reboot and use windows only for see a trailer of a game for example), anyway i've seen today that there is test2a version available for BeOS and Zeta, well here is the link:

http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/testing/vlc-0.8.6-test2/beos/

Thanks to Kian Duffy.

Get your BeOS style icon here:
 By -Meanwhile- - Posted on November 26, 2006 - 18:18:29   (#20970)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
I made an icon that suits the existing BeOS iconset better.
So, if you like this:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rrvvww/VLCicon.png
you can download it here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~rrvvww/VLC.zip
Tip 1: Unzip in BeOS otherwise info gets lost.
Tip 2: Use FileType add-on for the transplant.


isn't this the point of the 'transcode' feature?
 By Kevin_Field - Posted on July 5, 2006 - 03:14:46   (#20090)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
I thought vlc was all about processing? While I was trying to find out how to get this to work, I kept running across crazy stuff, like people taking webcams and putting out two different-size live feeds while saving a high-quality copy to disk, all in one vlc command-line execution. Hasn't anyone had to rotate a video under BeOS before on a zero budget? Maybe I'm wrong but I really hope somebody can lend a hand if this at all should be working...

Kev

Rotate - answer is transcode and GPAC - but do we have it?
 By s_d - Posted on July 4, 2006 - 05:01:50   (#20088)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode
http://gpac.sourceforge.net/index.php

"If you want to rotate a video (for instance we you filmed upside down), you can use the trancode tool along with the MP4Box (which is part of the GPAC tools) :

mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -vop rotate=1 -oac copy input.avi -o output.avi"


Re: Kevin_Field - ffmpeg or such?
 By s_d - Posted on July 4, 2006 - 04:54:05   (#20087)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
I think it is not VLC-s task.
Actually this is transcoding, and almost couldn't be done in realtime on commodity hardware.
If it is DivX-coded AVI for example, it will take no less time, I'm afraid, than turning DVD into DivX AVI.

Onscreen-rotating is much sumpler - your get rect with bytes and swap those in predicted order for each and every frame shown on screen.

But compressed video isn't sequence of those frames, like JPG isn't bitmap.

So, in theory, video-filter can create for you only video which will consist of huge number bitmaps with huge size (look at screen*.tga in your home folder after pressing PrtScr - to estimate possible size, multiplying it with 20 - FPS and with movie length in seconds:) - it is hard to expect that VLC creators will allow such stupid deal:)

So I suspect you need some other tool for the task

no effect?
 By Kevin_Field - Posted on July 4, 2006 - 03:56:22   (#20086)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Thanks for the suggestion SD...I tried --no-overlay as found on http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/VLC_command-line_help but aside from it unchecking the overlay option in the GUI prefs, it doesn't seem to affect the rotation. The transform still works on the screen but doesn't come out to the file. It does make the program a little less responsive though, so I can tell it's in bitmap mode (dragging the vlc window over the video window makes it a little choppy, unlike in overlay mode.)

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Kev

rotating to file
 By SD - Posted on July 3, 2006 - 19:09:44   (#20081)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
In which mode your VLC was running - bitmap or overlay?
Try to force it to work in bitmap mode, and look if it has it rotated in screen in that case. If it does, try to save to file in bitmap-forced mode

how to rotate a video
 By Kevin_Field - Posted on July 3, 2006 - 17:07:11   (#20079)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Okay, I give up. I've been trying to rotate a video by 270 degrees from the command line. I can get it to output to the screen correctly:

/boot/apps/vlc/vlc --vout-filter="transform" $1

But I can't save the output to a file. I've tried everything I can think of. I should think this would work:

/boot/apps/vlc/vlc -I dummy --transform-type="270" $1 :sout="#transcode{vfilter=transform}:std{access=file,url=$1.rotated.avi}" vlc:quit

...which gives:

VLC media player 0.8.5-test2 Janus
[00000249] dummy interface: using the dummy interface module...
[00000268] mux_avi private: stream[0] duration:52 totalsize:12096683 frames:1580 fps:30.000000 kb/s:1794
[00000268] mux_avi private: stream[1] duration:52 totalsize:422765 frames:2023 fps:38.281319 kb/s:62
[00000319] dummy demuxer: command `quit'
[00000245] main playlist: stopping playback

...but the resulting file is not rotated. If I turn on verbose mode it never says anything about the transformation filter (nor does it complain). I've also tried this all on 0.8.6 from the nightly build (the latest one is from April?) with the same result.

Help?

Thanks,
Kev

Thank you
 By Eddyspeeder - Posted on June 13, 2006 - 19:32:31   (#20002)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Thank you (cyan and MYOB) for the responses. MYOB; I really hope someone will step up. At least thanks for all the achievements made so far.

File info, other issues
 By MYOB - Posted on June 9, 2006 - 14:09:11   (#19988)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
These are all broken due to changes in the core (primarily playlist related) over time. The BeOS interface, excellent as it is, hasn't been kept up to date by either the real maintainer (titer) or the wannabe maintaine (me).

In current SVN, the playlist is broken, and the interface crashes on dropping a second file to it, and I won't have time to fix this for a while yet. Theres also other issues building up over time - semi-random crashes, doesn't close from the deskbar anymore, and so on. Theres even issues with the BeOS interface not handling the new unicode handling in the core, so asian/eastern european chars in file names no longer work on file drop....

Indeed, currently you can only build vlc on R5 net_server, with the libpoll hack installed (this I have to get up on to bebits sometime...)

So, effectively, the BeOS GUI needs to be rewritten (or someone needs to port wxwidgets or qt4...) in many parts. The interface itself is still good, the audio/video output code is still fine, but features we've had have gone missing over time, and features the other UIs have have never been implemented. Opening a network stream still requires going to the CLI; getting codec/resolution/bitrate info requires looking in the messages log, etc. And some general code restructuring is required in some areas, such as where the BApplication is created/destroyed to allow vlc to close properly.

If anyone feels mad enough to do this, or help me do this over the summer, let me know...

KDLs
 By Cyan - Posted on June 8, 2006 - 23:50:28   (#19985)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Not sure about the elapsed time problem, but to fix KDLs, try going into "CPU features" and disabling SSE, SSE2, etc. Start with everything disabled, and gradually enable things until it starts crashing again.

On this system (Thunderbird 1.33) with R5, I can confirm that enabling SSE/SSE2 will KDL it at random (regardless of movie size), perhaps because this CPU doesn't actually have SSE? 3DNow works okay though (the CPU has that).

Not sure why this happens; maybe there's an OS issue with saving/restoring XMM registers and context switching or something? Do any other BeOS apps use SSE successfully without crashing?

Issues
 By Eddyspeeder - Posted on June 8, 2006 - 23:33:43   (#19984)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
I'm using the latest VLC build (0.8.5) under Zeta 1.2 and before I start talking issues I just want to say how fantastic it is that you guys are doing so much work on VLC; there's a lot of progress and every new version is a giant leap forward (among others, thanks for the WMA support). I can no longer picture Zeta or myself without it, so respect to you. It does beat MediaPlayer.

The latest version poses two issues with me, which I have been able to reproduce on a second system in my home using the same Zeta install. I wonder; does anyone else experience these issues?

* VLC 0.8.5 does not display file information (elapsed time, chapter, title). It does work properly when installing an earlier version of VLC on the same platform.

* I get KDLs at random times with random messages. I have only experienced it thus far with movies (~700 MB). Like I said, I have been able to reproduce this on two completely different systems.

Sys info: #1; AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, VooDoo III, SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 -- #2; Intel Pentium III 667 MHz, 512 MB RAM, Radeon 7000 +TV-out, SoundBlaster Live! Value -- both run Zeta R1.2.

Why oh why
 By nutela - Posted on June 3, 2006 - 22:30:24   (#19937)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
...did YT insist on making their on mediaplayer... and now they're gone, well some people never learn.

Thanks OSS devs! Thanks VLC team!

NB: I'd like a custom x:y ratio in the right-click-menu!

VLC 0.8.5 works with exp/Dano
 By folgers - Posted on May 17, 2006 - 16:46:12   (#19751)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Thank-you for the update my children used it with exp/Dano to watch the new King Kong Movie

Thanks a Lot !
 By Meechmunchie - Posted on May 15, 2006 - 17:09:16   (#19729)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Dear VLC-Team, ...
Thanks a Lot for this nice Application ! - It's one of the best Mediaplayer, especially on Yellowtab Zeta.

Thanks for updates, but.......
 By edmundf - Posted on May 15, 2006 - 16:38:00   (#19728)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
The sound problem on some files is still there.
On some files I only hear noice, same files have
perfect sound with version 7.2.
The counter doesn't work either which is also
working in version 7.2.
I worked my way trough a zillion webpages on VLC
but I didn't found where to repport this bug.

thanks
 By ljr - Posted on May 14, 2006 - 20:26:02   (#19720)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
for update !

0.8.5 not working on Haiku
 By borg1980 - Posted on May 14, 2006 - 13:39:04   (#19717)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
0.8.5 is not working for me on Haiku (any problems with 0.8.4a).

very nice
 By lelldorin - Posted on May 14, 2006 - 11:47:02   (#19716)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
thanks for new build :-)

thanks for new version
 By BeOS Mr X - Posted on May 14, 2006 - 07:10:07   (#19715)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
seems to be pretty good, but as usual none of the special features advertised ever work.

the best Mediaplayer
 By Meechmunchie - Posted on May 4, 2006 - 08:52:15   (#19642)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
It's really better than the original Zeta-Mediaplayer !

[ & ] :)
 By AlienSoldier - Posted on April 22, 2006 - 00:45:52   (#19551)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
i noticed that files featuring "[" and "]" in their name can't play with drag and drop on the player. Might also screw with other character, not tried them all.

Don't know how make a bug report
 By edmundf - Posted on April 19, 2006 - 10:34:15   (#19512)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
After version 7.2 I believe, VLC has problems with
the sound of many wmv files. I just tied the latest build and this problem is still there.
I registered after surfing several web pages but I still can't report this problem.
Can't they make this a little simpler?

The Swedish chars å ä ö
 By tqh - Posted on March 5, 2006 - 11:01:06   (#19144)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
In the latest stable release the swedish interface shows squares instead of å ä ö.

Postprocessing
 By FraGro82 - Posted on January 7, 2006 - 10:43:28   (#18787)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Where can i enable the Postprocessing and wich one is the max value???

WMV problem
 By salva - Posted on January 5, 2006 - 14:56:58   (#18759)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Is this problem fixed? :) Some of the websites I visit have only WMV videos :S :(

wmv
 By whaka - Posted on December 16, 2005 - 15:12:53   (#18615)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
ok :)

Erm
 By MYOB - Posted on December 16, 2005 - 13:46:37   (#18614)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
I've realised theres a problem, I've no idea -why- there was a problem, and its not there now in 0.8.5svn. It also affects RealAudio files, seems to be a problem in resampling or similar.

I'll try to get a fixed build up if I can.

wmv
 By whaka - Posted on December 16, 2005 - 13:45:40   (#18613)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
yes, same problem than AlienSoldier

wmv
 By AlienSoldier - Posted on December 15, 2005 - 22:51:44   (#18611)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
wmv (yes those evil files) no longuer work for sound, now it's white noise.

Its 0.8.4b
 By MYOB - Posted on December 15, 2005 - 21:24:49   (#18610)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
0.8.4b just has a few MacOS X fixes and a ffmpeg security fix (which this has) over 0.8.4a. The original BeOS build of 0.8.4a (which I linked to in talkback) was dynamically linked and had problems doing CSS decryption on many peoples machines, even after libdvdcss was installed.

which version is it?
 By gaukler - Posted on December 15, 2005 - 21:17:06   (#18609)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Thh zip file is called 0.8.4b, but the folder is called 0.8.4a, and when started, the About says 0.8.4a.
mark

Nice
 By Jess - Posted on December 15, 2005 - 03:54:55   (#18606)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
I haven't tried this for movies yet but for streaming audio it no longer pitch shifts. This is a long time peev of mine so this is really cool. VERY nice work & thank you so much!

Also...
 By MYOB - Posted on December 12, 2005 - 23:37:28   (#18584)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
I appear to have forgotten the DVD decryption library... for those of you who are allowed CSS decryption: http://myhome.iolfree.ie/~seagullsireland/libdvdcss.so.zip

Place in the lib/ folder inside the VLC folder.

Nightlies...
 By MYOB - Posted on December 12, 2005 - 23:19:19   (#18583)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Are not my job :p - that's titers job, and I've a feeling it may be ffmpeg thats stopping them building, as its majorly broken direct from CVS right now on BeOS.

The link has changed to: ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/vlc/0.8.4a/beos now, as its now an official build.

Re:0.8.4a
 By ModeenF - Posted on December 12, 2005 - 22:58:53   (#18581)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
Nice. Have made a question about the night build on VLC webpage..(http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=14798)
Linux and Windows are up in 0.8.5 so having the night build would be good :)

By the way do you now of a good program to join two movie files .mp4 (from Handbrake).

0.8.4a
 By MYOB - Posted on December 12, 2005 - 22:24:53   (#18580)
 Current version when comment was posted: nightly
ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/testing/vlc-0.8.4a/beos

Will become the 'official' 0.8.4a build overnight, likely.

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