Jan 25, 2011 - To make it stop, just open up VLC and go to Tools > Preferences. Hit the 'All' radio button in the bottom left hand corner, then go to Video > Subtitles/OSD in the left-hand pane. In the Text Rendering Module dropdown, pick 'Dummy Font Renderer Function' and hit save.
VLC Media Player is the most popular and robust multi format, free media player available. Its popularity has been aided by compatibility and codec issues which render competitor media players like QuickTime, itunes and RealPlayer useless to many popular video and music file formats. The easy, basic UI and huge array of customization options mean few free media players can match VLC.
Flexibility
VLC plays almost any video or music file format you can find. At its launch this was a revolution compared to the default media players most people were using that often crashed or displayed “codecs missing” error messages when trying to play media files. VLC can play MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4 and a shed load of other media file formats. For a full list of compatible file formats please click here. Not only can VLC Media Player handle loads of different formats, VLC can also playback partial or incomplete media files so you can preview downloads before they finish.
Easy to Use
VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format. The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player.
Advanced Options
Don’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings. You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder.
Summary
VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org.
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Hello,
I have about 1400 fonts in fontbook. Most of them are turned off, however one very large collection/library of fonts always shows up in the menu as activated (Pages, entourage, indesign), making for some very slow loading times and unnecessarily lengthy menus. Furthermore, my basic system Times doesn't show up in InDesign (though fontbook says it's enabled, and it's in the system menu, so it should be always on).
I went through a series of 'fixes' about a week ago, but now it's all back (the resurgent problem corresponded with an Apple software update, but that might be a coincidence).
I have read the Kurt Lang article (font mgmt in osx), and I've tried the steps in 'undoing font book.' all to no avail.
I could buy a font manager besides font book, but I teach in a computer lab that only has fontbook, so I'd like to keep a parallel system if possible (but that's looking less possible at the moment--I hate to think how many hours I've wasted on this so far)
FYI, I have no fonts in home:library:fonts. I have 38 fonts in user:library:fonts. I haven't touched the system fonts. All others fonts are in separate folders accessed by fontbook.
I'm using OS 10.5.8
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
Ken
I have about 1400 fonts in fontbook. Most of them are turned off, however one very large collection/library of fonts always shows up in the menu as activated (Pages, entourage, indesign), making for some very slow loading times and unnecessarily lengthy menus. Furthermore, my basic system Times doesn't show up in InDesign (though fontbook says it's enabled, and it's in the system menu, so it should be always on).
I went through a series of 'fixes' about a week ago, but now it's all back (the resurgent problem corresponded with an Apple software update, but that might be a coincidence).
I have read the Kurt Lang article (font mgmt in osx), and I've tried the steps in 'undoing font book.' all to no avail.
I could buy a font manager besides font book, but I teach in a computer lab that only has fontbook, so I'd like to keep a parallel system if possible (but that's looking less possible at the moment--I hate to think how many hours I've wasted on this so far)
FYI, I have no fonts in home:library:fonts. I have 38 fonts in user:library:fonts. I haven't touched the system fonts. All others fonts are in separate folders accessed by fontbook.
I'm using OS 10.5.8
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
Ken
macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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