[Xvid-devel] flashing icon in system tray during thumbnail extraction

[Michael Militzer]

Hi Chris,

meanwhile, the tray-icon issue has been resolved as follows:

a) There's now a check-box in the decoder GUI that permits to enable or
disable the xvid tray-icon.

b) Even if the tray-icon is enabled, no icon will be shown anymore upon
thumbnail creation.

Best regards,
Michael


Quoting Michael Militzer <michael at xvid.org>:

> Hi Chris,
>
> thanks for your feedback. I didn't notice such extreme flashing / resize
> behavior with the tray icon upon thumbnail creation. You are right however
> that the icon serves no good purpose during thumbnail extraction.
>
> So it would indeed be best to disable the tray icon for thumbnails
> processing. But I haven't checked yet if/how thumbnail creation can be
> easily distinguished from normal video playback from within the DShow
> filter.
>
> As a first and simple solution, we should definitely make the tray icon
> a switchable GUI option. Will do this asap...
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
>
> Quoting "Rev. Chris Korda" <victimofleisure at gmail.com>:
>
>> During thumbnail extraction, for each thumbnail that's handled by XviD, the
>> XviD icon is inserted into the system tray and then immediately removed
>> again. This causes the system tray to rapidly alternate between two
>> different sizes, which in turn causes all the taskbar items to bounce back
>> and forth. It's scary if you're not expecting it, because it looks like
>> something a malware would do. The XviD icon is hard to see clearly because
>> it's flashing so fast, and it's usually not possible to click on it either.
>>
>> This problem was observed under XP SP2 using XviD 1.3.2, and occurs both for
>> Explorer's thumbnails and app-specific thumbnail extractions. I was
>> previously using 1.2.2 and it didn't exhibit this behavior.
>>
>> My suggestion FWIW is that 1) XviD should not display an icon in the system
>> tray during thumbnail extraction, and 2) there should be a way to completely
>> disable XviD's use of the system tray. Most applications that use the system
>> tray also include a method for disabling that usage. The most obvious place
>> for it would be a "Show icon in system tray" (or "Show icon in taskbar")
>> checkbox in the XviD configuration dialog.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Chris Korda
>>
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