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 (Server) re-stream Security Camera Feed
I purchased a Swann Home Security DVR system and was hoping for some help on how to duplicate the streaming video on my server.
In order to get their web view (streaming video in the browser) to ...
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VLC , remember icecast radio station names
When I use VLC (under Ubuntu 11.10) and I go to icecast directory it lists a bunch of radio stations with "unspecified name".
When I double click each station to listen it gets the name of the ...
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VLC player in ubuntu playing videos without sound?
In ubuntu 12.04, sound is not working in VLC player, when i play any videos, but work perfect when i use to play videos in Ubuntu default "Movies Player". does any body know the solution.
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How can I multiplex a video and audio stream?
I have a seperate video and audio stream (coming from IPWebcam on an android device), and would like to multiplex (and perhaps transcode) them into a single video file, using a linux server. How can I ...
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Batch convert video to audio with VLC
I have a bunch of MP4 or FLV files that I need to convert into WAV PCM 44khz 16bit stereo
Currently I do that "the manual way" with VLC opening the transcode window, selecting the source/target ...
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Webcam resolution, vlc and Linux
I'm trying to do some some streaming with a webcam, but so far the results are not good: everything I stream in 320x240 looks good, but as soon as I choose a higher resolution, the image quality gets ...
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force vlc to use libav, and pass libav specific options
I have a stream, that I can successfully decode with ffmpeg, with this command line:
ffmpeg -f image2pipe -vcodec png -r 30 -i -
Now I want to to pipe it directly to vlc. I tried this one with ...
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How to tell VLC which subtitle language file to display by default?
I am using VLC 1.1.11
I have a movie with two subtitles, both UTF, one is movie.en.srt and other in movie.he.srt (Hebrew if you ask)
When I play the file: movie.avi, both subs: movie.en.srt and ...
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Where is the moov atom in silverlight?
I monitored my network traffic to find the stream URL for silverlight video. When I opened that URL with VLC it didn't find moov atom and wasn't able to stream.
Could moov atom be in silverlight ...
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What could cause a video to play poorly in VLC?
I am playing a high quality (1080p) video using VLC inside a qemu-kvm virtual machine. The OS on my virtual machine is gentoo and the host OS is Ubuntu.
The video experience is very jerky : the video ...
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VLC 2.0 - How to configure the Media Library?
VLC's interface seems to imply that you can manage a collection of music without having to first open a playlist or folder. I assume my "Media Library" is empty, because the default root directory ...
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How to play .smi format subtitles with VLC player?
How to play .smi format subtitles with VLC player 2.0.1 ?
The player is reading the .smi file but the subtitle text displays in special characters .
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VLC: transition straight to fullscreen (no transition effect)
When I use cmd+F to get VLC into fullscreen while running a video, there's a transition effect (the video expands diagonally until it's fullscreen). [Incidentally, this generally causes the ...
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vlc freeze last frame from commandline
Suppose I play a video file via vlc from windows commandline. Are there commandline parameters which cause vlc to stop at the last frame and just display it as a fixed image instead of closing the ...
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Enable fade to black/grey when in fullscreen
I wish to blackout or grayout my other monitor when using VLC in fullscreen.
I've searched around and there seems to be an option for it, but I can't find it.
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How to make mplayer or VLC start playing video at strict time?
I want mplayer and VLC start playing at exact time. Player should:
Load video file, buffer it, prepare everything;
Wait for UNIX time to be N seconds M milliseconds
Start playing according to ...
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No video shown in MOV files when played in VLC on Linux
Files with the .MOV extension are great with their tiny size!
I'm trying to play these files on Linux using VLC, as it's a great cross-platform application, but the problem is that NO video is shown ...
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VLC refuses to stream
I'm trying to run cvlc on Ubuntu 10.04.4 in VirtualBox to stream a part of the desktop. However, I get the following error message.
lowerkey@c:~$ cvlc screen:// --screen-left=0 --screen-top=53 ...
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VLC not closing properly
When I close VLC it doesn't stop playing the video and the only way I can stop it from playing is via the task manager.
Does anyone know of a fix for this?
My computer is Windows 7 and I'm running ...
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Hardware acceleration for x264 playback on windows 7
Using VLC 2.0.0 with windows 7 to replay various mkv files (x264) the cpu usage of VLC media player averages 25%. How is it possible to enable hardware acceleration so that CPU usage will be lower?
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Still possible to extract video clip between bookmarks in VLC 1.1.3?
According to this blog post, back in 2007 or so VLC used to have the convenient ability to extract the clip between two bookmarks.
This would be phenomenally useful, but I don't see any sort of ...
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vlc streaming over the network
Following this, I'm trying to stream video over the network.
The settings are:
me@kaffeesatz:~$ vlc screen:// --screen-left=67 --screen-top=53 --screen-width=800 --screen-height=600 --screen-fps=60 ...
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how to play MP3 files at fast speed
I have MP3 file and the contents are continuous and slow. Is there any tool, which converts them to fast speed.
I am aware of the fact that with VLC, i can play fast. But, the problem is every time ...
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VLC find out when movie stops from cmd
I am working with VLC from C# by creating a process that opens the command line.
Is there any way of knowing when a movie ended in from the command line or something ?
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How to generate a 8 bit per sample wav audio file in VLC
I'm using the following vlc command line to extract first 5 minutes of audio from video file
"-I dummy -vvv --no-sout-video --sout-audio --no-sout-rtp-sap --no-sout-standard-sap --ttl=1 ...
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How do I set a http-interface password on VLC 2.x?
I'd like to set up a password for my VLC's http interface server. I'm using VLC 2.x on Ubuntu Precise. How do I set this up? I see numerious mentions online of it being possible.
Ideally, I'd like ...
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VLC command line batch video conversion
I am trying to convert some .webm file to mp4. In the GUI I select the following settings for the conversion:
Video:
Codec: H-264
List item
Bitrate: 512 kb/s
Frame Rate: 23.97 fps
Scale: 1
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VLC without border/window decoration in Windows
I'm trying to run VLC (2.1, 64 bit) without any chrome on Windows 7.
You can achieve it by going to Preferences, and in the Interface tab, unchecking Integrate video in interface, and also in the ...
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Pixelated video playback in VLC media player 2
I recently installed VLC media player 2 on my Lenovo G460 laptop running Windows XP SP3. During video full screen playback, the AVI video pixelated or just stopped playing. The audio, however, was ...
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Optimal video codec for VLC screen recording option?
I been playing around with the VLC screen recording option and I wanted to ask you guys what would best codec and settings to use for the following situation:
Record Powerpoint slides (minimal high ...
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VLC 2.0: can't enable UPnP support
I'm attempting to use VLC 2.0.1 (Intel 64 bit) to connect to a UPnP server (Serviio 0.6.2 on OS X Snow Leopard).
I've tried to enable the feature by right clicking the "Universal Plug 'n Play" node ...
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How to open an iPhone compatible M3U file on Windows?
This is how the M3U file looks like:
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=1400000
http://maskedip/http_livestr.str?r=true&id=mbit-test&k=testkey
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Automate VHS capture in VLC (or anywhere)
I am currently undergoing a project converting all my parents old home movies on VHS to DVD (and also putting them on a harddrive), we have hundreds of these things and they are all around 2 hours ...
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How to streaming(multicast) youtube to the local network?
I am trying to streaming youtube video to my local network.
Following is what I did.
Set uri of youtube
Destination is rtsp://192.168.0.23:8554/youtube
I open rtsp://192.168.0.23:8554/youtube on ...
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Disable 'font cache' in VLC on OS X?
Ever since downloading the latest version of VLC with the new interface, VLC irritatingly generating some kind of font cache. This never used to happen with the previous version of VLC and so ...
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How to use VLC to display video on multiple displays
I have 2 displays and would like to play the video on both without changing my windows display settings.
I have attempted to use the "Wallpaper Mode" however It does not work. I have VLC set to ...
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Play Video on CPU: “VIA Samuel 2”, 797 MHZ
Please help me track down if the hardware is able to output video.
VLC 1.0 - 2.x.current are not possible to install (Problem occured, send report)
VLC 0.3.x (very old) installs but hangs after 2sec ...
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Loop a single track/element in a XSPF playlist using VLC
I've googled a lot, but I haven't found a solution yet.
Is it possible to loop a single track in the XSPF playlist?
In terms of a pause, we can do it in a xspf playlist as follows:
<track>
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How to play an MP3 file with louder sound?
I tried playing an MP3 file with VLC player and iTunes both with largest volume of the player and the Mac OS X system. The former seems to play a little louder (any way to quantitatively measure?) I ...
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VLC will not start DVD
I've set VLC as the default player on my Windows XP machine. If i have a DVD in the tray and dobbleclick on the H:\ (dvdrom) VLC starts but does not start playing like on a regular dvdplayer for TV. ...
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.txt subtitles/transcript in VLC 2.0?
Yesterday I upgraded my VLC to 2.0. I was watching some video lectures of .mp4 format. The lectures were not having any subtitles but they provided my transcript in .txt files.
I want them to be used ...
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what is rpm fusion in layman and how it is related to installing vlc?
Recently i installed VLC Player on fedora. Since i am a new user for linux i installed it without knowing what am i doing. I just followed the instructions. First i installed a rpm file for ...
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installing vlc-tar.bz2 and gcc.tar
I need to install vlc player in fedora which is a tar.bz2 file. How can i install it ?
Someone told me that gcc is needed to install this software. How do install gcc-4.6.2.tar ?
Please list the ...
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Extract subtitles from movie
Some movies I download legally, contain embededd subtitles. I would like ego extract them as text files(.srt, .sub, etc) in order to view the movie on a samsung tv, which needs separate files for both ...
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Permanent “automatic” deinterlace in VLC in OS X
VLC has an "Off", "On" and "Automatic" setting for deinterlace in the menu. It defaults to "Off" and the option is reset after VLC exits.
I also know that in the settings I can permanently enable ...
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Alternative to VLC VLM for Camera Monitoring
We've been using VLC's VLM but it's just too painful to deal with any more with no relief in sight, so I'm looking for a solution that can:
Take multiple feeds from IP cameras and captures cards ...
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Extracting “one of every 10 frames” in a video using VLC or FFmpeg
I am trying to extract "exactly 1 frame of every 10" frames of a video (i.e. extract 1 , leave 9 then repeat) for scientific purposes. The video is 105 frames, 3.5 seconds, 29.97fps (h.264, .mov, ...
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Extracting every frame from video file as image in OS X
What I want to do is extract every frame of a video file and output the images.
I tried using VLC's commands through terminal, however it seems to be skipping frames, even though I turned off "skip ...
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How can I watch a side-by-side 3D video in 2D?
I have a 3D movie (.MKV), with side-by-side 3D, and it works just fine at home. Now I want to see it at my friend's house, and they don't have a 3D system.
Is there any way to crop one of the sides ...
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How do I play .rm files in Ubuntu?
I tried downloading VLC player with these instructions to play a .rm file.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html
VLC downloaded just fine, but it is unable to play my .rm file. Is there a ...
