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Is VLC 3.0.3 for Windows 7?
I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC
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Is VLC 3.0.3 for Windows 7?
On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 19:12:51 -0400, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-08-05 18:51, wrote: I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC 3.0.3? VLC runs on Win7. Just install it and see how you like it. Thanks. |
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I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC 3.0.3? Yes. -- Quote of the Week: "You feel the faint grit of ants beneath your shoes, but keep on walking because in this world you have to decide what you're willing to kill." --Tony Hoagland from "Candlelight" Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / http://antfarm.ma.cx / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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|I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC | 3.0.3? For the record, I'm running VLC 2.0.5 on XP. Later versions run and install OK, but they malfunction, with weird visual static and instability. I don't know why. You may be fine with v. 3 on 7. If not then try an older version. I don't know of anything 2.0.5 can't handle. |
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jackpatton wrote:
I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC 3.0.3? I'm currently using VLC 2.2.6 on my home PC running Windows 7 Home x64. I just used the "Help - Update check" menu in VLC and it reports that 3.0.3 is available. I remember seeing 3.x of VLC was available but don't remember back then why I choose to not update from 2.2.6. https://www.videolan.org/index.html If you go there and click the downward chevron on the download link, you'll see multiple operating systems are supported, including Win7. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html says "VLC runs on all versions of Windows, from Windows XP SP3 to the last version of Windows 10." The author should probably remove the first clause since "all" doesn't really apply due to the list of restrictions in the 2nd clause. However, Win7 is listed as supported. I noticed in the last VLC update that some videos have hiccups in them that wasn't present before. For example, when reaching the end of a video (with VLC set to loop) or selecting an interval to repeat, some videos don't immediate restart smoothly when they hit the end of the file or the end of the loop. Instead there's a blacked out interval for a second or the first frame freezes for a second. I've noticed more pixelation in old videos that played okay before in a prior version of VLC. I had switched from using the Windows photo & fax viewer for GIF files to associating VLC with .gif files, and the first artifact that I noticed in playback is that there is a long pause before VLC starts to actually play the GIF. I suspect the problem is with updated codecs. Although I use the K-Lite Codec Pack to update the codecs on my PC, those are for the globally accessed codecs (those called by other media programs that use what have been registered with the OS). VLC doesn't use the global codecs. It has its own codec library; i.e., VLC uses its own set of codecs (under installpath\plugins\codec), so updating the K-Lite package won't help with getting a later codec for VLC to see if the hiccups disappear. A newer version of VLC might have a later collection of codec versions that resolve whatever screwup occured in the prior codec version (but which were a later version than what I had before VLC 2.2.26). I always keep a couple older versions of software in case I need to step backward after trying a new version. I could've walked backward from VLC 2.2.6 to, say, 2.2.2 but the video artifacts where significant enough for me to bother. I will try going to 3.0.3 to check if the playback artifacts disappear. https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.3.html Some codecs were mentioned, so maybe they updated their internal codec library with newer codecs that resolve the playback artifacts encountered in 2.2.6. UPDATE - After updating from 2.2.6 to 3.0.3 of VLC As an extremely short glance at VLC 3.0.3, GIFs no longer have a long delay before they starting playing in VLC. I saw no delay to restart a loop; however, this didn't happen in every video, I don't remember for which video formats it happened, and perhaps the videos that I choose for testing 3.0.3 didn't incur the delay back in 2.2.6. The delay on loop restart might be one of those artifacts that I'll have to watch for until I feel the new version no longer has that problem. The new version did preserve my customized toolbar, so I don't have to figure out how to define it again to how I want. Why not read their forums: https://forum.videolan.org/viewforum.php?f=21) to see what other users are complaining about, like: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic...144622#p473561 I've never used whatever is "video effects", so I cannot address that issue in 3.0.3. In VLC's settings, hardware-accelerated decoding is set to Automatic, so I can't tell if VLC is using or even needs that method for the videos that I'm playing on my particular setup. Since it works as-is, I haven't bothered testing with hardware-accelerated (GPU assisted) decoding to set to one of the two listed methods or disabling it. Seems that setting affects whether or not VLC will play 2K and 4K videos, and I don't have of those yet. Doesn't seem an overt exposure of whether VLC is using GPU assist or not (i.e., there's no obvious indicator). Instead the responses that I saw mention to watch CPU or GPU usage by changing this setting. GPU assist should reduce the CPU load by VLC. |
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On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:51:08 -0400, wrote:
I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC 3.0.3? Version 2.2.8 here. I did try a more recent version, but got crashes, so reverted. If 2.2.4 works, use it. []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 20:38:20 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:
I've noticed more pixelation in old videos that played okay before in a prior version of VLC. Same here, for versions prior to 3...... |
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On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 23:36:21 -0300, Shadow wrote:
On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:51:08 -0400, wrote: I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC 3.0.3? Version 2.2.8 here. I did try a more recent version, but got crashes, so reverted. If 2.2.4 works, use it. []'s I don;t think i have had crashes yet on updates of VLC. |
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jackpatton wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: I've noticed more pixelation in old videos that played okay before in a prior version of VLC. That was for prior versions to 2.2.6, not 3.0.3. After installing 3.0.3, the problems introduced in 2.2.6 (when I moved from 2.2.2) had disappeared. Same here, for versions prior to 3...... But I noticed it when going from 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 of VLC. Well, when I had 2.2.6 is when I happened to notice the increased pixelating but it might've happened before if I had played the same videos in VLC when using 2.2.2. No way to really know which videos I was playing with which version of VLC to know when pixelation increased. That I noticed it in 2.2.6 doesn't mean it wasn't happening in earlier versions. I probably most noticed the pixelation when I would jump through a video by using the Forward/Backward buttons (which jump at 10-second increments). Sometimes when I jumped, synchronization seemed to get lost for a couple seconds, the video pixelated, and then it got corrected and playback continued okay. I don't have that many .mp4, ..flv, or other video files, and none that I tried had the pixelation in VLC 3.0.3. Probably depends on which codec the video used that VLC would then use to decode the video. Many video formats are just containers, so the codec could be different despite playing the same container filetype. For me, 3.0.3 was an improvent in playback quality: no more pixelation and immediate restart on looping. It's possible a damaged codec got replaced in the new version's internal codec library. Whatever made it work better, it's better in 3.0.3 for me than it was in 2.2.6 (which was worse than when I was previously using 2.2.2). 2.2.2: okay. 2.2.6: some problems. 3.0.3: okay again. |
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In message , Weatherman
writes: wrote: I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC 3.0.3? Yes it does and it runs in Linux too. It (3.0.3) seems to work well enough on my (4 pretend core, 32 bit) W7. Something I _have_ noticed lately though - though can't say whether it's only since "up"grading to 3.0.3: sometimes, a video will not update properly - the moving part paints, but leaves trails; but, at other times, the _same_ file will play fine. Sometimes if this happens, hitting the back button (left-arrow; go back 10 seconds) will make the video play fine when it gets to the same point. It doesn't _seem_ to relate to what else I'm doing on the computer (usually nothing, when I'm watching a video - certainly nothing processor- or graphic-intensive). If I leave such a "smearing" video playing, it _sometimes gets better - perhaps next I-frame, though if that's the case they're a _lot_ further apart than I thought they were. Anyone know why this happens (and ideally how to cure it)? I've most recently noticed it on some .flv files, but as VLH says, you can't tell much from an extension these days, as they may contain all sorts of different things inside. (These are local files; I haven't _noticed_ it on something playing from online, but then I don't actually do that much, so it may happen there too.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Usenet is a way of being annoyed by people you otherwise never would have met." - John J. Kinyon |
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On Sun, 05 Aug 2018 18:50:55 -0500, Paul in Houston TX
wrote: wrote: I am currently running 2.2.4 Weatherwax on a 64 bit Win 7 machine. Should (can I) upgrade to VLC 3.0.3? My VLC 1.1.11 works just fine on 7/64. No reason for me to upgrade. It's up to you of course. Working fine is always good. But until you try a new version of something, you don't know whether it works even better or what new features it has that you might like even better. My recommendation is almost always to try the new version, but save the installation file for the old one. If you don't like the new version, go back to the old one. |
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