VLC was originally the client portion of the the VideoLAN project. The project, started in 1996, was intended to stream multimedia over a university network and consisted of a server and client. In 1998 the application was completely re-written, the functionality of the server was rolled into the ...
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VLC - How to restore GUI?
I was mucking around with VLC setting up an http interface and somehow I've managed to turn off the default GUI - which i believe is the Qt interface. So now when i start VLC i get the process showing ...
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Why is incorrect associated icon showing for .MP3 files?
I changed the associated application for playing .MP3 files from VLC Player to GOM Player within Windows. Double-clicking a .MP3 file causes GOM Player to launch (as expected), but the icon still ...
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How can I overlay dynamic text on a video during playback?
I am using a spare linux (Ubuntu 10.04) box (os is non-negotiable) to playback videos while riding on a bike trainer. Additionally, I have a bluetooth heart monitor and I'd like to display my realtime ...
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Broadcast video sound on airplay VLC
I would like to broadcast my video sound on my IHome device with airplay and watch video on my mac book.
It is possible to do that ?
I know you can broadcast music with airplay, broadcast full video ...
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How to keep vlc player in minimized mode?
I'm using vlc media player which can play almost all kinds of audio and video formats. While listening to audio, I keep vlc in minimized mode and can work on other windows. But when I select to listen ...
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VLC: Always on top and transparent when out of focus
Is it possible to do the following things with VLC?
Make the playback window stay always on top
Make the playback window transparent when another window has the focus?
This would allow watching ...
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Sound, but no picture when playing videos over VLC or WMP on projector
When using VLC or Windows Media Player on my NEC projector, I get sound, but no picture. My computer is a Compaq Presario 2800.
A VLC window appears on the wall, but there are no images.
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Subtitles in VLC streamer
Does anyone know how to present srt subtitles using VLC media streamer? (iMac to iPad, not that it should matter I guess). I have made sure the subtitle file name is exactly the same as the movie, but ...
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How can I have support in Hebrew and russian subtitles at the same time?
When I try to watch movies with russian subs I get gibberish (with hebrew characters).
I found that I can change the system non-english support language (something like that) and then it will support ...
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Transcode from .ogg to .mp3 using VLC media player command line
I am trying to do a command line convert from a .ogg file to a .mp3 file. Here is my command line:
vlc -I dummy 0.ogg
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.flv videos only play audio without image
I downloaded a pack of about 50 .flv videos, most work just fine on any software that plays .flv, but some only play audio without video. I use Ubuntu 10.04 as main OS but also tried on Windows and ...
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VLC streaming testbench
Has anyone tried streaming media with VLC as server? I want to deploy VLC as streaming server, but my department didn't had a nice experience with VLC streaming.
My question is has anyone tried VLC ...
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Live Stream Transcoding VLC
I'm hoping somebody can help me with this. Even if VLC isn't the best way I'm open for other methods. I've tried LiquidSoap but I can't get my scripts to function no matter what the script is.
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Reencoding MXF (OP-1a) XDCAM HD422 MPEG into something useful
I am a bit desperate at this point. I have a video file in the MXF container format. MediaInfo identifies it as MXF (OP-1a) XDCAM HD422 and says the Video Stream is plain MPEG. I want to edit the ...
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VLC Stream WMV3 to H.264, stream out error: cannot find video decoder
I have a stream source: mms://217.218.67.243/presstv
I want to convert this wmv stream to h264 or anyother format. I used the following command:
cvlc -vvv "mms://217.218.67.243/presstv" --sout ...
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VLC: extremely slow start-up
I'm using Windows XP and have VLC 1.1.11 installed. When I click its start menu icon, it needs 55 seconds (!) to show the GUI. I've cleared its settings, it asked me whether to check for updates and ...
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How do I change the default TCP listening port for VLC HTTP Remote Control from 8080?
I think most of the info is in the question but here's a little more detail on what I'm trying to achieve.
I control VLC via my Android phone and the VLC Remote app. It works just fine, but I'd ...
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How to prevent VLC from automatically resizing its window according to viewed content resolution?
In a case of mine a very high (compared to the video stream) resolution graphical frame (saying "access denied" (when my IP changes)) can appear instead of a video stream, which makes VLC window to ...
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VLC Media Player 1.1.11 converting borderfree VHS to DVD
I'm converting videos from VHS to DVD using VLC 1.1.11 for Windows, but seem to be getting black borders in the result (DVD) both left and right. I'd very much like to get rid of those using any way ...
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DVDs stuttering on Pentium 4 system with 4gb RAM?
My system used to play DVDs flawlessly. Now all of a sudden, it stutters. I have tested multiple commercial DVDs (standard definition, not HD), which are clean and not scratched. All of them stutter ...
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how to register rtsp protocol in firefox 9 so it would be played in VLC instead of Real Media
VLC is able to handle rtsp links without any other codecs installed on the system. Manually copying and pasting a link that contains rtsp with 3gp stream works fine.
But when I click the same rtsp ...
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High-Resolution VLC Visualization Ouput
I would like to use a VLC visualization to render an image large enough for printing. Is there any way to redirect the output of each frame to disk, rather than to the screen? If so, I could set the ...
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Stream piped audio to iOS device over HTTP
I'm trying to stream SiriusXM to my iPhone the "back way" because the official app doesn't work. There is a python script called pyxis that pipes data into mplayer and plays it locally. Is it possible ...
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How to loop MMS video stream from VLC
I have a VLM config for a mosaic broadcast however once the stream has finished playing, it will not restart regardless of the loop option. Does the loop option apply to certain streams only or just ...
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ffmpeg encoded video - seeking is “quantised” in VLC
I'm running the following command to convert an mp4 video into the VP8/Webm format:
ffmpeg -y -i lists.mp4 -f webm -vcodec libvpx -vb 600k -r 20
-acodec libvorbis -ab 64k -ac 1 lists.webm
When I ...
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How to get length of video file from console?
Suppose we have video file some_video.
How to get length of it from a shell script (with mplayer/transcode/gstreamer/vlc/ffmpeg/whatever)?
VIDEO_LENGTH_IN_SECONDS=`ffmpeg .... -i some_video ... | ...
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How to stream the PC desktop to a phone with VLC?
I got this famous handy VLC player. I want to stream my PC screen over RTSP to my phone.
Here are the details:
My PC is connected to a DSL router via ethernet LAN cable, which has a built-in WiFi ...
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How to store as a file, a small clip within a song being played using VLC Media player
If I am playing a song in VLC Media player 1.1.7(On Win-7). I select points A and B to loop between that points while playing back, I want to store the clip of the song between point A and B as ...
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VLC: Play on Fullscreen
(Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard)
Is there anyway to configure VLC to start playing paused videos when it enters fullscreen mode like older versions of QuickTime (or newer versions with this installed: ...
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Need windows video player with seek preview feature
I am looking for a windows video player with the seek preview feature, like the one in the Hulu player described as follows: "Seek Preview displays a preview thumbnail when the mouse hovers over a ...
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DTS to AC3 conversion for LG TV using mediatomb DLNA server
I want to convert a MKV video file containing DTS audio to a stream with AC3 audio. I want to pass this resulting stream to mediatomb's transcoding feature. Mediatomb will transfer the stream via DLNA ...
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Display VLC stream while copying
How can I copy a video stream with the command line version of VLC for Mac, and simultaneously display the video stream on the screen? I use:
vlc -vvv -I rc mms://... --sout ...
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Hardware requirements for VLC based transcoding [closed]
I have a device which give me raw mpeg2 multicast udp video streams. And I'm going to build a server which will transcode (based on VLC) these streams into h264, I have 20 of such streams. My question ...
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How do I nest quotes in VLC (command line)?
I've got a multi-program input. I want to take each of the programs and transcode each of them separately (because one is 16:9, one is 4:3) and then RTP each of the streams to a different address.
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How to find out whether my PC can play HD videos?
There is a lot of literature on the net on playing HD videos but nothing which explains comprehensively, hence my question.
I have a PC with the following configuration
2GB RAM running 32 bit ...
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VLC using Audio/Video from different source?
Can I make VLC take a RTSP video and Wave-In audio?
I wants to re-stream a rtsp video with a different audio channel.
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Why does VLC desaturate my video clip on one of my PCs?
These screenshots are taken from the exact same (binary identical) video file opened in the exact same version of VLC (1.11) on two different machines. Both machines run Win7, and even though one is ...
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VLC - how do I see video file's information? (resolution, encoding information etc)
How can I check video file's information from VLC?
I want to see the movies' resolution(weather 1080p or 720p, or whatever), encoding information, encoded time etc.
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How can I prevent my screen from going black when watching movies in VLC with GNOME3?
In the GNOME 3 options, I set the screen to go black after one hour.
I want more – 2 hours, or even "never". Is this possible?
Alternatively, how could I set VLC Player so that the screen does not ...
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VLC jumpy when playing MP4 with SRT file
I am a bit of a technophobe and haven't had a mac for long so please bear with me...
I have an MP4 file and an SRT file (Subtitles) that I want to play together using VLC. They are saved in the same ...
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How do I record my screen using VLC or other software without wasting CPU?
I'm using VLC to record and save an output file of my screen.
The biggest problem is that VLC uses a very high amount of CPU. For a Core 2 Duo that is not a big deal, but in some old PCs (like with a ...
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Can I add Visualization to VLC
Is there a way to add new visualizations to VLC?
The six included are OK but something new would be nice.
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Default path for installed binary?
By doing
yum install vlc
I have installed the vlc player on my system. Now I want to know where the binary of vlc was installed. So what is the default path for installation in Fedora Linux?
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What's wrong with .flv file?
I have .flv file which has a pretty long runtime.
But VLC player indicates runtime as 48 min. (in reality it's more than 2 hours)
The questions: What is the maximum runtime for .flv file?
What ...
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How can I solve VLC's dependency “vlc-nox”?
I have installed Ubuntu (Ubuntu 2.6.38-11-generic-pae #50-Ubuntu SMP, i686 Athlon i386 GNU/Linux). I am newcomer in Linux.
I am trying to install VLC media player using command line:
% sudo apt-get ...
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Stream contents of a single window
I've been using VLC to stream my desktop over the network and it's great. However, I would like to stream only the contents of a specific window (like Alt + PrintScren works for screenshots).
Is ...
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Playing random short clips from a collection of movies
I'm hosting a party, and I want to play random sequences from a collection of movies in the background. I don't want to sit and edit together five hours of footage by hand though. Ideally I would:
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Attached monitor issue with VLC and SOPcast
I'm sure that I have overlooked something obvious...
So my laptop monitor went bad, and I attached an external monitor to it (Dell Inspiron 1501). I designated this monitor as the Primary.
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VLC Sound boosting
VLC Media Player is one my favourite players. When I had a talk with my friends, they said that it will make damage with laptop speakers. They claim that VLC uses some boosting techniques that is ...
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Play video files in VLC media player from behind HTTP basic authentication URLs without a password
I regularly open HTTP URLs and play them directly in VLC media player, using the "Open Network..." option. Unfortunately, the URLs are behind HTTP basic authentication (they require a username and ...
