Hi! There is still one feature about bad old VHS tapes that I miss in DivX or DVD: You can watch half of a movie, and continue watching at a later time without seeking where you left off.
I think we should have a configuration file for each viewed file that stores the last position, preferred viewing resolution (some files have the wrong aspect ratio, for some files you might watch windowed, others in fullscreen, etc.) , the correct video/audio synch, preferred viewing quality, preferred audio channel, etc. etc. For broken .avis, saving an index file would also be nice. IMO, ~/.avirc should become a directory, with moviename.avirc files and of course the default .avirc file in it. Or maybe having a ~/.aviconf directory is better so that old versions don't get confused about ~/.avirc being a directory. Of course some common sense should be implemented, too (always rewind a couple of seconds, if the last position is near the start or end, rewind to start and only save settings that differ from the defaults, etc.) Maybe avifile should also search for moviename.avirc in the movie's directory. This would make it trivially easy to repair movies with broken video/audio synch and/or wrong aspect ratio (just find the right settings, exit aviplay and copy ~/.avirc/moviename.avirc to the movie's directory - all users will benefit and you can burn it on a CD, too for a "repaired" .avi) My ~/.avirc file is 1678 bytes in size, if we assume 2K per configuration, you would have to view 500 files to reach a measly MB, so disk space is not a problem. (So I would vote that this feature is implemented as an option that is turned ON at default) People watching movies on their computers have usually huge harddisks anyway. Since this should not be too hard to implement and I want to renew my C++ programming skills anyway, I would volunteer to implement this feature in the next week if it will make it into the official release. What do you think? Roland -- Roland Seuhs _______________________________________________ Avifile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://prak.org/mailman/listinfo/avifile
