When i'm going through a list with both videos and pictures on standalone viewer, and a video is opened, i can only use the previous/next keys if the immediate files are videos too, else it gets "stuck" on the next picture that is opened.
The keys goes back to working normally if i minimize and open it again, until i hit another video.
How are you opening the viewer? It normally doesn't include videos in the next/prev list.
Is Preferences / Viewer / Standalone Viewer / Add all files to the list (instead of only pictures) turned on? Or are you opening it by selecting things and then clicking a button, or another method?
I use the viewer as the default app for pictures so i open it by opening any picture, and yes i have that option turned on
This reads as focus, not the next/prev list.
Keys still fire while a video is up (video-to-video moves fine), so the frame is getting them at that point. Press next onto a picture and they die. Likely split: video is shown by a plugin window that holds focus and still routes the nav keys, the static image renderer wants focus on the main viewer window and doesn't get it on the transition, so the keys land nowhere. That also covers video-to-video working (still in the plugin's focus context) and "normal again after minimise/restore until the next video" (restore hands focus back to the frame, the next video moves it into the plugin window again).
Two cheap tests, DannyDan, when it's stuck on a picture:
Do other viewer keys still work (zoom with = and -, rotate with R)? If everything is dead, that points at focus. If zoom and rotate work and only prev/next are dead, focus is fine and it's the picture list that's broken.
Click the viewer's title bar and try the keys. Avoid clicking the image area for the test, a click there can navigate or fire another action depending on your mouse prefs and the edge-click setting. If the title-bar click clears it the way minimise/restore does, that's focus too.
Less likely: the next/prev index getting confused at video boundaries. Minimise/restore fixing it argues against that, since a restore wouldn't rebuild the list.
I just tested it and yeah the other keys also "die" when switching from video to picture.
Clicking the title bar does nothing, only minimizing fixes it.
Sounds like keyboard focus getting stranded rather than anything to do with the picture list, since everything dies rather than just prev/next. My guess is the video plugin's window keeps focus when you move on to a picture, so the key presses are going to a window that's no longer handling them. That would also explain the title bar click doing nothing (the viewer's already the active window, so clicking the caption doesn't move focus around inside it) while minimise/restore works (that forces a full deactivate/reactivate, which gives the main window a chance to grab focus back).
While you're waiting on a fix, a few things worth poking at:
The Video & Audio plugin config (Preferences / Viewer / Plugins) has a playback method setting, MediaEngine vs MediaSession. Different pipelines under the hood, so if the focus problem is specific to one of them, flipping it might make the whole thing go away. Costs nothing to try.
DirectShow codecs (LAV Filters, or K-Lite if you want the bundle) can change which path the plugin uses for a given format. Long shot given this smells like focus rather than decoding, but it's another variable if the first thing does nothing.
And the blunt option: turn off "Add all files to the list" and the bug becomes unreachable, since videos drop out of the next/prev list. Defeats the purpose of having it on, obviously.
No idea which of these will help, if any, but none of them cost more than a couple of minutes.
Tried messing around with those configs and it didn't change a thing.
Thanks for the suggestions anyway.
Think we need a bit more info on your exact setup, like plugins active, codecs, version of app/OS, system specs, etc. also try the latest update of DOpus just released.
Is it always the same folder or different ones? Do you have autoplay on as well? Is file explorer also open? What advanced settings do you have on if any?
Definitely feels like something competing for focus at the same time. What DOpus plugins do you have installed?
I'm on windows 11 and yes it happens every folder without explorer being opened, i have all the codecs installed and i'm always on the latest update of dopus.
Maybe i should have added that it used to work fine before and i only started noticing this happening in one of the recent beta releases with the changes to the viewer (not 100% sure on that).
I never messed with plugins or advanced settings before and i tried every configuration possible for the video/audio thing and nothing changed. Only now i added that recent mpv wrapper plugin and i don't have the same issue with it.
Thanks for giving all of that. I guess this is out of my hands now, as it looks like it's pointing towards the internal movie.dll plugin for handling this.
Essentially, what you've installed is just a wrapper that switches to another app. That could still be a focus thing, as it just calls the other app and wraps it in a nice way for Dopus.
But if that's working for you now, then I guess that's a stopgap. The fact that you're on beta is another variable that I can't comment on, so we'll have to wait for @Leo
I tried my best but I hope that's working for you at the moment.