I have version 0.8.6 of VLC Media Player. VLC has a customizable interface. In the version I have the default interface is very useable. However, the preferences dialog is hard to use. Sometimes using the JAWS cursor can be used to determine the function of the key. This is a long scrolling list. Each key assignment is a row with the function of the key on the far left followed by 3 checkboxes to determine if the Alt, Control and/or Shift modifier keys will be part of the keystroke, and finally a combo box of the key to be assigned. JAWS has difficulty with this since the label is so far from the combo box. The list does not seem to scroll as JAWS tabs through the dialog. This makes it impossible to use the JAWS cursor to understand where you are in the list, since the item with focus is not visible on the screen. I do not know how to force JAWS / VLC to make the PC cursor visible by scrolling the list. Does anyone know a trick to force the application to update the screen and scroll to always make the focused item visible?
The main keys I use are: Play /pause = Space bar Full Screen = f Stop = s Next = n Previous =p There a variety of forward and backward hotkeys using the left and right arrow keys with modifier keys Quit = Control +q Mute = m Volume Up = Control + up arrow Volume Down =Control + down arrow (The up and down volume controls do not work for me on Vista, even if I reassign them!) As I was writing this I found a reliable way to get the function name (purpose) of each key assignment. As you tab through the dialog and get to a combo box for the key assignment where JAWS does not say its function, do the following: 1. Press the JAWS key + Spacebar to enter the Home Row Utilities. 2. Press Shift + Tab 4 times. This will place you on the static text that contains the function name. If it did not say the function or you want to have it repeat, press F1 to repeat the name. 3. Press the JAWS key + Spacebar combination again to turn off the Home Row Utility. You will be returned back to the combo box. Perform these steps each time your on a key assignment that JAWS can not properly say the function of the key assignment. Here are some more hotkeys I found with this method: (even more are available, mostly DVD related, if you check "Advanced options") slower = - faster =+ (if you change the playback speed, the sound is turned off) Cycle audio track = l Cycle subtitle track = k Cycle source aspect ratio =a Cycle video crop =c Cycle interface mode = d If anyone needs an older version, I have a copy of 0.7.1 that I can send you as an enclosure off list. Don Marang ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kruger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:46 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] VLC MEDIA PLAYER >I normally initiate the process using the context menu from within windows >explorer, and if, for example, I tell it to open a DVD image, etc., then >once it's open, hit the alt key to activate menus, then go left/right to >find things like audio, video, navigation, hit the down arrow, and under >something like audio tracks, you should find a list of possible tracks etc. >etc. > > I see that in it's preferences dialogue, it does have a list of hotkeys, > but that dialogue isn't accessible as such, so not sure what they all are. > > HTH > > Jacob Kruger > Blind Biker > Skype: BlindZA > '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JOHN JUSTICE" <[email protected]> > To: "BLIND COMPUTING MAILING LIST" <[email protected]> > Sent: 20 January, 2009 12:58 AM > Subject: [Blind-Computing] VLC MEDIA PLAYER > > >>I downloaded the software as Lino suggested. But I don't know how to make >>it work. There doesn't seem to be any kind of Help file or any >>documentation that I can find. >> Has anyone been able to make this program function? 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