IMDb Finally Adds Movies
The Internet Movie Database has finally added a new feature to their site that many users of the site have requested for years. As of now content, that is media, has been added that can be streamed on site. The content in question is a mix of TV episodes and independent films.
Everyone should however notice that most of the full movies and tv episodes are only available to US viewers. Users from other parts of the world will see a grayed out inactive Watch It button on the movie page which can be confusing for some users who may think that a technical issue like a missing plugin is keeping them from watching the movie.
The main reason for this move is that most content comes from other streaming media services like Hulu which are also only available to US viewers or those who know how to use a VPN to view the contents.
There seems to have been recent changes as well which are great for all users. Trailers and clips of movies are now prominently displayed on the right side and all users can watch them without restrictions. That's an interesting feature for many users who used to visit the Apple Trailers website to watch the latest movie trailers.
Movie trailers appear to be accessible for users from all over the world. To watch the trailer simply click on the watch trailer button and it should open on the page in an overlay.
IMDB in addition to that seems to have partnered up with streaming companies like Amazon's Lovefilm to provide access to movie streams on the site (at a cost).
The integration of media makes sense, as it is a natural addition to the contents that IMDb offers on its website already.
While it is unfortunate that most contents are access-restricted, at least movie trailers and clips can be played on the website without issues.
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Why not make use of the mplayer.conf?
Huh, I have never even seen this “font cache” pane; videos play at once for me, using VLC & XP SP3.
Mike, in theory this should have only been displayed once to you, at the very first video that you played with VLC. The time this window is displayed depends largely on the number of fonts in your font directory.
huh, I lucked out for a change?? Amazing!!
Apparently VLC keeps this info through version updates, but I didn’t see this message after a fresh OS install about 8 weeks ago, & a new VLC.
yes, yes, i have the same problem. sometimes, VLC crashes when it is playing .mov file.
Error:
Buidling font Cache pop-up
Solution:
Open VLC player.
On Menu Bar:
Tools
Preferences
(at bottom – left side)
Show settings — ALL
Open: Video
Click: Subtitles/OSD (This is now highlited, not opened)
Text rendering module – change this to “Dummy font renderer function”
Save
Exit
Re-open – done.
Progam will no longer look outside self for fonts
Source – WorthyTricks.co.cc
Great tip, thanks a lot Kishore.
@Kishore, I’ll try your tips, but does this mean it will no longer show subtitles either?
I do use subtitles, but the fontcache dialog box pops up (almost) everytime I play a file.
Could this be related to the fonts I have installed? Or if I add/remove fonts to my system?
I’ll try to do a fresh install also, if your tips does no work. I’ll post back here later…
/thanks
/j
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,
@ Javier, The trick i posted will show up subtitles too. If not,Dont worry, VLC is currently sorting out this issue and the next version will be out soon.
No probs @ Martin !! Its my pleasure
Try running LC with administrator privileges. That seemed to fix it for me
I am using SMplayer 0.8.6 (64-bit) (Portable Edition) on Windows 7 x64. Even with the -nofontconfig parameter in place SMplayer still scans the fonts. Also, I have enabled normal subtitles and it is still scanning fonts before playing a video. Also, it does this every time the player opens a video after a system restart (only the fist video played).
Does that mean that only instrumental versions of songs will be available for non-paying users?