VLC 2.2.3 fixes Resume feature
VideoLAN, makers of the popular media player VLC, have just released VLC 2.2.3 which can be best described as a bug fix release as it does not introduce new features to the client.
When it comes to features that I like in video players, resume may not be at the top of my list but it is a nice to have feature that I expect media clients to support.
While VLC Media Player did support resume for some time, the feature never worked properly whenever I tried it.
That's one of the reasons why I use other media players, SMPlayer to be precise. I was not the only VLC user who could not get resume to work and I even tried to install add-ons for the program that supposedly got the resume feature working but they too did not work properly or reliable.
VLC Media Player 2.2.3
All of this changes with the release of VLC 2.2.3. If you check out the changelog, you find "Fix resume where you left off" listed as a change.
A quick test with video and audio files revealed that VideoLAN has fixed the issue indeed. VLC Media Player 2.2.3 displays "do you want to restart playback where left off" option as a small prompt in the player interface if the media file was played before in the player.
A click on continue jumps to the last recorded position and starts playback from there. The prompt disappears after a couple of seconds automatically, but you can also click on the close icon to close it right away.
If you have no use for the resume feature, you can disable it in the following way:
- Open VLC Media Player.
- Select Tools > Preferences or use the shortcut Ctrl-P.
- Under Interface, locate Continue Playback and uncheck the option.
- Click on Save.
VLC won't offer to start playback where it was stopped the last time the media file was played in the program.
As far as other changes in VLC Media Player 2.2.3 are concerned, they fix issues as well but most of them under the hood.
VLC 2.2.3 is not yet picked up by the program's update check feature. You can download the latest version from this page currently as the main frontpage of the project does not list the new release yet as well.
It is only a matter of time until the release is pushed to the frontpage and picked up by the update checker.
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?