They tend to leave a rather long time between versions. I hope that they correct this in the next version - but that could be a long time coming. Anything less than that is pretty much not worth the time.

Going through a one- or two-hour program at 8x takes long enough - 4x obviously takes twice as long. It's a fairly minor point (after all, how often do you want to fast-forward at 4x or 8x?) but I do use it from time to time to catch reception errors on recorded TV programs that I haven't yet watched at normal speed before passing the program on to someone else.

It restarts where it would have been if it hadn't frozen.Īnother option is to quickly backspace 3 seconds when the picture freezes and, in most cases, it will get by that freeze point. If you wait a while, it will restart, but not where it left off. It trundles along for a few seconds, then the picture freezes. One minor downside of the new version is that fast-forward at 8x doesn't work any more - it worked perfectly in version 2.2.6. I sometimes have trouble hearing what people say, particularly when they have an unfamiliar (to me) accent or they mumble (which happens a lot in TV shows and movies). I was pleased to discover that it supports closed captioning. Videolan recently released the latest version (3.0.3). Here's my current VLC info.I have been a VLC user for quite some time and believe it to be the best video player available. I get the same result when trying to 'revert from fullscreen' as you do. Though I can run the 64 bit OS I am running the 32bit version as I have read it is more stable. So CTRL+Q is to Raspbian as Alt+F4 is to Windows? (My knowledge of Linux is (nearly) limited to the fact that He's Charlie Browns best freind) I have found that a CTRL + Q will kill VLC player and let me get back control of my Pi again without having to power cycle. Instead the picture freezes but the audio keep playing! However, it will not revert from fullscreen to a window when double clicking or pressing ESC as normal. VLC player works as normal when it's playing in a window, and will continue to play when switched to fullscreen mode.

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