Re: [bongo-devel] VLC problems on w32

[Daniel Brockman]

Dieter,

> After updating bongo and using the new vlc backend, I see
> a couple of problems:

Thank you for the quick feedback.

> - vlc does not allow pause.  The mode line does not display the ||
>   button, and pressing the space bar results in
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "writing to process" "invalid 
> argument" #<process bongo-vlc>)
>   process-send-string(#<process bongo-vlc> "pause\n")

[...]

I don't know what could cause this, but I will try to
investigate it.  Hopefully Daniel Jensen will wake up soon
and come to our rescue if I fail. :-)

> - while vlc is playing I see a DOS command window on the screen,
>   mplayer did not show such a window. The window contains the
>   following text:
>
> [00000555] rc interface: VLC media player - version 0.8.6a Janus - (c) 
> 1996-2007
>  the VideoLAN team
> [00000555] rc interface:
> Warning: if you can't access the GUI anymore, open a command-line window, go 
> to
> the directory where you installed VLC and run "vlc -I wx"

That's no good!  I just asked on #videolan, and someone told
me that the --rc-quiet option would do the trick.

Could you please try that fix by adding "--rc-quiet" to the
variable `bongo-vlc-extra-arguments'?

> Remote control interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 0.2.0cvs from http://dvd.sf.net
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.9 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Could not open n:/Jahrescharts von 1974/1974 - 012 - Michael Holm 
> -
> Tränen lügen nicht.mp3 with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open n:/Jahrescharts von 1974/1974 - 012 - Michael Holm - 
> Trä
> nen l├╝gen nicht.mp3 for reading
> libdvdnav: vm: failed to open/read the DVD

I wonder why it's talking about DVDs...

> - after a song has finished playing, vlc keeps running, so bongo keeps
>   waiting, end everything stops. I have to click the next song to
>   start playing again.

Hmm, I seem to remember that we've had this problem before.
I will have to get back to you on this.

> I have downloaded bongo-mplayer.el, but now vlc is at the
> head of the list and being used for all files.

Simply remove VLC from `bongo-enabled-backends'.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>