3) Video covers. In every folder I have video file and picture file with the same names. Can I force MC to use those pictures? In Audio section it works well, pictures are automatically used as album covers.
You can use the
Right-Click --> Cover Art tools for Video Files, the same as you can with any other files. You can choose Add From File and pick the proper JPEG (or whatever) and it'll replace the auto-generated thumbnail. However, you can't do them en masse that way. Unfortunately, the
Quick Find in Cover Art Directory tool looks for [Artist] - [Album] so unless you have those tags filled for your video files in a unique way, and you have the cover art named properly and in the specified Cover Art directory (
Options --> File Locations), it won't work. I agree that it'd be nice if MC automatically handled folder.jpg (and whatnot) for video files the same as it does for audio.
However, there's probably a way you can do it semi-manually with an expression and editing the [Image File] tag. For example, if all of your cover art files have the same name as the [Name] tag and are in JPEG format, you could select them all and in the [Image File] tag field (in the Tag editor) type:
=[Name].jpg
Which would re-tag them all with the appropriate files. If the [Image File] tag doesn't have a full path, it resolves from the location of the media file, so that could work. If they're all named just "folder.jpg" or something like that, you could just select them all and type "folder.jpg" into the [Image File] tag.
(BTW: This feature, the ability to reference other tags and use expressions in tags, is brand new. Thanks again, Matt!)
5) by shortcuts I meant customizing keyboard shortcuts. But it isn't neccessary.
Yeah... You can't. MC plays nicely with Girder though, so if you use that you can do all kinds of cool things using the documentation here:
http://www.jrmediacenter.com/devzone.html6)NEW - Audio files play 4-5x louder than video files. For pleasant listening I must set volume on 20percent, but then when I play video file - nothing is heared and I must raise the volume to 100. It's a bit uncomfortable. Any suggestions?
This is likely FFDSHOW's fault. If you're using FFDSHOW to decode the audio in your video files, AC3 volume in particular can come out VERY low with some sound card drivers using the default settings. I described this fix previously here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=39195.msg267030#msg267030If that doesn't fix it, you can also use FFDSHOW to boost the volume of the audio files using the Volume "filter". Setting it to Normalize will do a "gain leveling" that smooths out the loud parts and brings up the quiet parts. You can also just do a Master Volume boost in there, or boost individual audio channels. I actually have a two FFDSHOW Presets that help with the random ultra-quiet video file (one normalized and one with the master volume set to 250%). That way, if I encounter one, I can just right click on the FFDSHOW Audio Decoder icon in the task tray and pick my preset to quickly fix it.
Because MC strives to have bit-perfect audio playback, it generally completely bypasses the normal Windows audio "path" for many different Audio media types. One result of this is that volume levels for DirectShow playback types (most video files) can be quite different than MC's "native" types (it has many positive results too though -- it doesn't let Windows mess up the quality of the playback for many file types).
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