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Idea #23979: VLC Needs Saveable Equalizer Presets

Written by ThatBum the 12 Mar 10 at 05:35. Related project: VLC media player. Status: New
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VLC has equalizer presents, sure. But if you make a custom equalizer setting and exit the program, and start it again, the setting is lost. This is annoying to people who have speakers that needs a certain universal equalization to sound their best. I know there's system-wide equalizers out there that have savable presets, but I still would like to see this feature in VLC.
Tags: equalizervlc

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Solution #1: Make Subset Menu in Preset Dropdown in Adjustments and Effects
Written by ThatBum the 12 Mar 10 at 05:35.
I was thinking a Winamp-style approach to it. Have a button to save a preset somewhere in the Audio Effects tab in Adjustments and Effects.This opens a text field for naming the preset. The newly minted present could be in something like Preset -> Saved Presets -> "Name Here".

Deleting presets would either require a separate preset manager of some sort, or a right click menu to delete what was selected in Preset -> Saved Preset. This, as I understand, would requiring a restructuring of the dropdown UI in VLC, because dropdowns regard a right click as the same input as a left clock.

I suppose to modify a preset, you just load one, do the modification, and save it under the same name, after a confirmation.
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Solution #2: gtk interface to VLC
Written by yzarc the 14 Mar 10 at 10:25.
support the development of a gtk interface to vlc.
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Solution #3: Add a safe button vor audio and video Adjustment.
Written by AdlerHorst the 5 Apr 10 at 19:03.
I don't know why but every time i waching videos I have to change the color settings.(thats why i only use vlc vor watching video)

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cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 12 Mar 10 at 10:31
Have you considered suggesting this directly to the VLC project team? They generally ignore input from Brainstorm.

ThatBum wrote on the 14 Mar 10 at 02:16
Has been done many times with little effect:

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=54185&p=240649&hilit=equalizer+pr eset#p240649

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=19175&p=217586&hilit=equalizer+pr eset#p217586

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=70508&start=0&hilit=equalizer+pr eset

http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=66669&p=221975&hilit=equalizer+pr eset#p221975

etc, etc.

LaMeR wrote on the 20 Mar 10 at 11:49
ThatBum even in the links to VLC forum threads you provided, is written that it is known bug (that VLC don't remembers equalizer preset) and that it is possible to workaround it by inputting the values via "Preferences/Audio/Filters/Equalizer". So I quite don't understand the purpose of your idea (And I also think that it should be addressed to VLC project team in the first place).

ThatBum wrote on the 21 Mar 10 at 07:01
This is not what I mean. What I mean is to create a non-standard preset by moving the frequency sliders, and saving THAT. Although, that is useful, I didn't get far enough in the post to see that...you do have to enable advanced however. I'm thinking of the beginning user, it should be just in the Audio thingy, but that's a whole new idea.

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