Tray Icon to access configuration / manage chapters / streams

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LAV Filters should support a tray icon to easily access the configuration, as 
well as show file/stream information.

Additionally, LAV Splitter should allow switching of chapters/streams through 
the tray icon for players that do not natively export this functionality.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 20 Jul 2011 at 7:07

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To get this started, we need some kind of icon to use for the tray icons..

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 28 Jul 2011 at 12:02

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LAV Splitter definitely needs a tray icon in order to quickly switch between 
audio tracks, subtitles and fast access to chapters. Considering chapters, it 
is especially annoying to navigate through them via MPC-HC's right click menu, 
there's no "quick" way about it.

Original comment by gigacosm...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2011 at 1:26

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A tray icon is easier to find then the navigate context menu in MPC-HC? 
Seriously?
Tray icons are just right-click menus, with the annoying difference that they 
are hidden in the small system tray - instead of just clicking on the big video 
window.

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 20 Nov 2011 at 2:00

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It's because it's a huge clusterfuck in MPC-HC's context menu. In the main menu 
there is "Audio" but that is only used when it's internal audio switcher is 
used (which is crap, I hate splitters that rely on seperate switchers). and 
there is "Subtitles" which is realy only for Subtitle configuration... it only 
shows the "selected" internal subtitle (and any external subs to switch to I 
think).

Main stream switching is done by going the through "Navigate>" sub menu and 
using Audio/Subtitle/Video/jump to selctions. Instead of something in the main 
context menu. I believe It's done this way because it was originally ment for 
DVD Navigation only.

and if you ever implement TS Program switching it would have to be done through 
a tray icon because afaik no player has a mechanism to support it.

Original comment by deadscr...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2011 at 12:43

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Yeah this is critical. I'd like to use LAV because of some issues with Haali, 
but can't switch as media player and media centre don't support subtitles and 
stream switching, thus I depend on this functionality being provided by the 
Haali tray icon for those few occasions I need it.

Original comment by t...@tomwardrop.com on 25 Dec 2011 at 1:34

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I agree with Tom. I was thinking about trying to switch off of Haali and trying 
this out. But since I use WMP, without this feature, it's useless to me.

Original comment by who...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2012 at 10:45

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MPC-HC context menu is a hell on earth. Tray icon would be a nice solution.

Original comment by watcherhd on 25 Apr 2012 at 3:59

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A tray icon will just bring up another context menu. I don't get the big 
difference. :D

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2012 at 5:10

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The big difference is usability, also it would be able to add support for 
stream switching from within media players that do not support it natively, 
such as I described in issue 75. So you could consider this to be a request for 
better user friendliness.
AND, if these functions were available as public C / C++ / COM / .NET functions 
or methods, I'd be very happy ;-) But that's a different issue (75)

Original comment by garry.so...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2012 at 5:43

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There is already a public API to switch streams, its defined by Microsoft and 
is called IAMStreamSelect.

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2012 at 5:45

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"There is already a public API to switch streams, its defined by Microsoft and 
is called IAMStreamSelect."

Although that is true and media players should, there are several players that 
do not implement is. Yet, some people like these media players for the most 
part. Therefor, to be able to switch streams within such a player we need 
something external to the player to handle stream switching.

The only way to actually be able to use it from an external process outside the 
decoding / splitting process is using something like DirectShow Filter Spy, 
which is less desirable from a reliability standpoint. You'd make my day if at 
least you'd provide a tray icon with menu options for stream selection. 

From there i believe it's a small step to provide suggested public functions or 
methods.

Original comment by garry.so...@gmail.com on 25 Apr 2012 at 5:55

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Agreed. An icon in the system tray for switching audio streams and subtitles is 
pretty cruical. It's not about being easier or more convenient than MPC-HC's 
menu because it really isn't more convenient. It's basically the same in terms 
of conevenience. It's really about proper support for WMP and WMC, and possibly 
other players that lack the functionality of chaning the streams, although I 
can't think of any. The point is that MPC-HC already has decent support for all 
of this, it's WMP/WMC that desperately need this functionality, especially 
since the preferred audio language feature doesn't work for MKV files.

Original comment by lastmome...@gmail.com on 4 May 2012 at 12:32

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LAV now has tray icons which are shown as soon as a LAV filter is used in a 
DirectShow graph. Clicking them will open the config.

This was the first step, for the future, right click context menus for stream 
changing will also be added

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2012 at 11:35

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>LAV now has tray icons
>icons

More than one? Why?

Original comment by Mayhem...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2012 at 10:05

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because LAV is more than one filter.

Original comment by yakits...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2012 at 10:10

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Indeed, every filter creates its own icon, anything else is exponentially more 
complex.

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2012 at 11:09

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Well, if possible, I'd rather have one icon to rule them all.

Original comment by Mayhem...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2012 at 11:51

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We can't have all that we want. :p

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2012 at 11:52

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the most important is splitter, people usually don't change anything in 
video/audio decoder and even if, setting are too complex to make a right-click 
menu

simple switch channels menu is probably enough

Original comment by jaro...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2013 at 2:20

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I subscribe to the idea... at least for the splitter, similar to what Haali 
does, it shows audio tracks and subtitle tracks and for me it's handy, since I 
kept haali besides the clock (not hidden) and chose everything I needed at the 
start of the play. Plus, one thing's for sure, players which don't have MPC's 
filters menu won't benefit from the same easy of use without that tray menu. 
And then there's the popular demand, haali did it, ffmpeg did it, a lot of 
others did it as well, it's easier to overcome player's inabilieties with that 
simple tray menu.

Original comment by ema....@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2013 at 3:25

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I too subscribe to that idea.
I also I would say it becomes really urgent now to have a chapter selector and 
a stream switcher accessible in the systray as now most of the codec packs are 
making or made the move to LAV.

Original comment by Okocha1...@gmail.com on 18 Apr 2013 at 5:27

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This issue was closed by revision 850a66b69017.

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 11 May 2013 at 3:30

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