For most of this year, VLC has been presenting one strange behaviour after another. After the upgrade to v3.0.4, the one remaining anomaly is that, although the Progress Bar shows, the slug in it that indicates how much has been played and how much is left to play, OFTEN does not appear at all. I have ruled OUT the video card as the source of the problem. Win10 v1803 32bit in Antec Sonata 1; mobo : Gygabyte GA X58A - UD5; 4Gb RAM I'm unable to post the question in the Videolan forum, as I do not get an opportunity to post a new thread; and an email to the moderator bounces.