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Each instance of AC3Filter should be configurable. Therefore there're many
icons for
each instance.
It's possible (to make one icon per application (i.e. two icons in your case).
But
one icon for all applications will require a separate process that will manage
icons
from different processes and live in background all the time (even when
there're no
live filter instances). I think that this way is not too good.
Original comment by ac3fil...@gmail.com
on 11 Sep 2009 at 4:01
Hello,
I'm not sure to completely agree with you.
1) Even if each instance of AC3Filter may be configurable, I think that people
needing to have differently configured instance would be very rare, especially
knowing that this would be certainly very short-lived and temporary as I
strongly
doubt that any support currently exists for separately saving configurations
for each
instance.
2) I agree about the fact that an easiest way to implement this could be
creating a
separate process for managing this icon. However, this doesn't need to have it
to
live permanently in the background: a proper reference count should easily
allow it
to be loaded with the first AC3Filter instance, and unloaded when the last
instance
will have been unloaded.
Best regards,
Gingko
Original comment by from_goo...@nospam.homelinux.org
on 11 Sep 2009 at 4:58
1) You're right. It may be a good idea to control all instances in an
application at
once. So when playing a movie with several tracks (original and translated) we
have
no need to know what track actually works at the moment.
2) Yes, it is the way. And there'is another one with icon master that delegates
its
duties to another instance on destruction. But I think that benefit from the
single
icon does not cost the complexity of this solutions.
3) What is the benefit from the single icon? Yes, one application can start
much of
tracks, flooding the tray. One icon per application is a simple solution for
this.
But who watches 10 movies at the time?
Original comment by ac3fil...@gmail.com
on 16 Sep 2009 at 9:49
About (3) :
This is not necessarily a matter of watching. Several instances of the filter
can be
loaded while only one is really active, but the icon is displayed whatever the
filter
is really used or not.
The real case that I have is not about an application for watching recorded
videos,
but about an application for watching live TV (DVB-T). This application can
load two
instances of the filter in order to be able to quickly switch between MPEG2 and
AC3
soundtracks (and possibly a third one in the future if ever you implement EAC3)
while
switching TV channels (all of these 3 kinds of soundtracks can be found in our
French
TV broadcasts).
Also, a live TV application can be used, not only for watching, but also for
**recording** live TV. As I have 3 TV tuners on my computer, I can load as many
instances of my application for recording up to 3 TV channels at once, and this
really puts 6 AC3Filter icons in the system tray, even if most of the time I
leave
most applications windows minimized.
Now I agree that I don't have a very common configuration. But anyway I need to
completely disable the AC3 icon if I don't want my task bar cluttered by these
many
icons.
I sometimes use another codec, ffdshow, that raises exactly the same problem,
and
even worse because ffdshow also manages video, and there is also 2 kind of video
streams present in French TV (MPEG2 and H264). As ffdshow now implements EAC3,
this
would effectively put 5 ffdshow icons by application instance in the system
tray if I
do not deactivate them.
Gingko
Original comment by from_goo...@nospam.homelinux.org
on 16 Sep 2009 at 10:36
Icon appears only when the filter is actually used (an application calls
StartStreaming()). But an application can start streaming, but pause the filter
for
later use. And I do not see a better solution.
So I incline to make one icon per application. Also it solves some other
problems
(like many icons in some applications).
Original comment by ac3fil...@gmail.com
on 18 Sep 2009 at 11:56
Original comment by ac3fil...@gmail.com
on 21 Sep 2009 at 12:10
I had 6 icons open up when using Lego Digital Designer.
Original comment by sondun2...@gmail.com
on 30 Oct 2010 at 11:21
I have 40+ icons when playing The Elders Scrolls Oblivion:
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/7541/ac3u.png, This is quite annoying
Original comment by VictorGr...@gmail.com
on 16 Dec 2010 at 12:32
same as comment 8 by 'Victor'
WAAAAAAY too many icons loaded in the tray. The ONLY reason I installed AC3
Filter was to get Windows Media Player to play sound for DVDs. Why on EARTH
would you need an icon per application? There should be only one, and the
'control panel' that displays when double clicking the icon should have
individual settings per application INSIDE ... not separate cluttering the task
tray.
Original comment by Sparxx....@gmail.com
on 29 Dec 2011 at 7:03
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
from_goo...@nospam.homelinux.org
on 17 Aug 2009 at 8:03