VLC 3.0 release

Re:VLC 3.0 release by avtar on Friday February 09, 2018 @10:35AM (#16340892)

I didn't spot this in the release notes but looks like the UI will now accommodate high-DPI displays in Windows:

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by floatboth on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:35AM (#16341569)

Looks like they made it worse. I have 150% UI scale and VLC 3.0 has gigantic buttons even though I don't have a touchscreen. Honestly, 2.x was better.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by wldcordeiro on Friday February 09, 2018 @02:46PM (#16343275)

I think the idea is that it does it automatically so 150% is unnecessary.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by Avamander on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:56AM (#16341773)

Turn down the scale?

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by bohrshaw on Friday February 09, 2018 @10:54PM (#16345773)

I have 125% UI scale and VLC also shows its buttons too big.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by jbk on Saturday February 10, 2018 @05:57AM (#16346792)

File a bug.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by jbk on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:10AM (#16341305)

Good point.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by bfred_it on Friday February 09, 2018 @10:49AM (#16341033)

Things like this make wary of moving to Windows. Most OS X apps didn't take long to become retina-ready.

VLC is one of the most common Windows software and it still took until 2018 for it to work correctly.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by leetcrew on Friday February 09, 2018 @10:53AM (#16341082)

there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by wolfgke on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:20AM (#16341410)

> there are still a lot of pain points if you have a 4K display. otherwise it's mostly fine.

I personally love the rather small text and thus the giant amount of screen estate on my 27 inch 4K screen on Windows. But other people might have different preferences or visual acuity.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by leetcrew on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:41AM (#16347451)

text size is easy enough to change; i do love how it renders on a 4K display though.

im really talking about dpi scaling though. there are still a fair amount of apps I use frequently that don't do a good job. the recent qbittorrent update looks horrible for me. some electron apps have awkward proportions but are still usable.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by floatboth on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:28AM (#16341491)

I have a 28" 4K display (~150% UI scale), the vast majority of apps on Windows look perfect. Zero pain points.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by avtar on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:34AM (#16341558)

One could argue that having to scale up to 150% is a pain point. If I'm switching to a 4K display I would want to use the maximum resolution at 100% scaling.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by floatboth on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:37AM (#16341590)

How is it a pain point? It's literally a preference designed to work with HiDPI displays. And it was set to 150% automatically (because EDID contains info about the monitor's physical size).

100% on 28" looks tiny.

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by tillinghast on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:03AM (#16341210)

Genuinely curious—so non-4k high-DPI displays work fine then?

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Re:VLC 3.0 release by avtar on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:26AM (#16341470)

In my experience, yes. I tried an Dell XPS 15 for a few weeks and the 4K pain points were evident with apps like Audacity, Photoshop, and VLC. I ended up learning more about Apple's high-DPI approach:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/is-mac-retina-scaling-f...

Laptops aside I've read that using a large enough display, at least 32", helps work around the Windows scaling issues. I haven't tried this yet.

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