Questions tagged [vlc-media-player]
A cross-platform, open source media player & streaming media server. Use this tag when having issues with playing, streaming, transcoding or otherwise using VLC's features. Consider pairing it with an OS or platorm tag (windows, linux, osx etc) if the problem is platform-specific
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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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How can I re-sync the subtitle and the video using VLC media player?
When I play a movie with subtitles (on VLC media player), the text is often displayed too soon or too late. Is there a way to delay the starting point of the subtitles?
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How to disable subtitles by default (but keep them available)?
When I play a video in VLC it always starts with subtitles! I don't want this! I want subtitles OFF until I choose to turn them ON.
I tried unchecking 'enable sub-pictures' in the preferences menu, ...
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How do I connect VLC to a known DLNA server?
I have VLC on my Mac and would like to connect to a DLNA server on my LAN but the server isn't showing up in VLC's UPnP auto-discovery UI. Given the IP address of the server how can I point VLC to it ...
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How do I associate my keyboard's media keys with VLC media player?
I've got an ASUS K50AF series notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I'm using VLC media player, and I want to use media keys (play, pause, rewind, forward, stop) with it. Currently, they're ...
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How to use A-B repeat feature of VLC?
Apparently VLC has an A-B repeat feature, but how do I use it? There's even a related feature request. I can't find any GUI controls for it (Windows VLC version 1.1.9) I am aware there is a possible ...
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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 to capture screen video (with audio) using VLC media player?
The steps below do sometimes result in a partial file which can't be played or some file without sound.
Click Media -> Stream -> Capture Device -> Capture Mode = Desktop -> Stream
Then ...
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How to encode audio with Opus codec?
The Opus audio codec looks like the best codec so far for compressing audio. It has recently become supported in the latest ffmpeg and VLC players. However, there is no documentation I can find on how ...
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VLC player hotkeys will only work while it is selected
I got my media keys to work in the hotkeys under the settings, and they do work... when I have VLC selected. If I deselect it (not close the window, just click on another one) then the keys will not ...
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How to play/pause with a single mouse click?
Is it possible to play/pause a movie just by clicking on the window?
I really miss this feature from Media Player Classic, but from what I could find, it's not possible in VLC.
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Getting the video frame number in VLC
I'm running VLC 2.0.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
I have a .mpg video paused, and I would like to know the frame number for this moment in the video. Is there a way to reveal that in VLC?
P.S. I scrubbed ...
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How to increase VLC RAM buffer for offline files?
I would like to configure VLC player to preload a significant portion (like a hundred megabytes or so) of a video file from the hard disk to RAM before playing it. Is this possible?
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How can I get the length of a video file from the console?
Suppose we have a video file some_video.
How can I get its length from a shell script (with mplayer/transcode/gstreamer/vlc/ffmpeg/whatever)?
VIDEO_LENGTH_IN_SECONDS=`ffmpeg .... -i some_video ... | ...
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how can I view milliseconds with VLC? (and why is this method not working?)
Note- This is not a duplicate. This question, as it says in its title, is specific to VLC. The other question is a general question about video playing programs generally. So, not a duplicate
I am ...
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How to trim/cut clips with VLC
I am running VLC 1.1.5 64-bit on Mac OS X 10.6.6. On the web I found instructions saying I should click on Video->Advanced Controls in the menu bar to reveal options that let me trim and cut video ...
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Can VLC remember movie position?
Sometimes you kill a movie player before the movie ends, and when you reopen the movie on a later stage, instead of starting from the beginning, you want things to continue from where you left. Can ...
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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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Display current playback speed in VLC
Is there any way to display current playback speed in VLC? Right now I have to decrease or increase the playback speed, which is not convenient:
I use the latest version of VLC (2.1.3) on Windows 7 ...
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VLC: Can I stream over SSH?
Question:
Can I get a local VLC instance to stream media from a remote computer, via SSH?
This is with VLC running on the local computer that I'm watching the video on, not remotely via X11-over-SSH....
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How to record the desktop in VLC media player - second screen
I have a dual-head monitor setup under Windows 7, and I want to capture the desktop in VLC media player. But the second screen is preferred. How do I do that?
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Total Duration of Playlist in VLC Player?
In VLC, is it possible to know the total duration of the Playing of a Playlist?
I have looked around, in the settings, but didn't find anything.
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How to disable all window borders from the VLC playback window
Is there a way to make the VLC playback window completely borderless (no title bar, no other borders)?
Ideally, I would like the playback window to be completely borderless and then a separate window ...
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How to play multiple instances of VLC on Mac?
It seems on Windows there is an option: 'Allow only one instance', but I can't find it on OS X.
How do I force VLC to open new separate instance for new videos?
Currently it's just replacing the ...
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Where is the log file for VLC media player on W10?
Ive got an error in VLC media player on a W10 pro machine and its prompting me to "CHeck the log for details".
Ive looked inside various VLC sub folders / progreamme files and searched for "vlc-log....
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Can you disable VLC's font cache?
I have many fonts installed and VLC's font cache rebuilding takes several minutes.
What is it for? How can I disable it?
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VLC shows two windows for one video
I've updated my VLC Player on the Mac and now I have two windows for one video. How can I disable this, so it works the old way?
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Saving one file format with a different file extension. JPG - PNG; MOV - MP4
From experience I know that if I save .jpg file with an .png extension (or vice versa) the most programs will open it as normally. I am wondering why is that the case and ask people with experience in ...
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How to play multiple audio tracks of video simultaneously on VLC
Whenever I play a video with multiple audio tracks on vlc the first audio track is played. How do I enable both tracks so that I hear both tracks playing at the same time while playing the video?
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How to watch live youtube stream using vlc?
Is it possible for now to watch live youtube video streams using vlc? I just don't want to use flash player.
I know that vlc can play youtube videos using link for the page where that video is located,...
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OSX: using CLI version of VLC
How can I use the CLI version of the VLC on OSX?
After installing VLC on OSX, it works fine through the normal GUI process, spotlight, etc. Also, I know it's possible to do
open bla.avi -a vlc
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Can VLC 3.0 play frame-by-frame backwards?
There is a frame-by-frame playback on VLC (E key or view > advanced controls), which is very useful; but there is no way to use it backwards.
This is a long-time requested feature (at least since ...
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How to change playback speed steps in VLC Player?
I am using VLC player as my video and audio player on Ubuntu (14.04).
In playback menu under speed item, I can choose Faster (fine) or Slower (fine) to speed up or down playback. But it changed speed ...
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Strange display issue with VLC
I just set up a server and ran some sample video tests, but for some reason the video is showing characters and numbers instead of pixels. Here is an image of how I see it:
Do you think it has ...
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How do I get VLC to play on the second monitor on windows?
How do I get VLC to play on the second monitor on Windows? On Mac OS, there is an option in the video menu "fullscreen video device". Windows doesn't seem to have that option.
There are various ...
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Remove Recent List in VLC Players on Windows 7
VLC player is one of the item most used on my Windows 7 machine. When I click "Start", I\it appears as "pinned" at the program list.
When I mouse over to the VLC players, I will see a list of ...
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How does one playback MIDI files on Mac OS X?
I’m on Mac OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite and in the past, I used VLC Media Player in combination with FluidSynth to play back MIDI sound files, but according to the answer to this question, this option is no ...
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Does VLC media player store the files or its history in a hidden location?
Does VLC media player store the played files hidden somewhere? I share my computer with a fellow student and do not want him to see what I have been watching.
Is the history or files of what's ...
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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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Why does stripping metadata decrease the duration of my MP3 file by 0.03 seconds?
I have a file, input.mp3, which, running ffprobe on it gives the following:
[mp3 @ 0x559431400a00] Estimating duration from bitrate, this may be inaccurate
Input #0, mp3, from '../backup/1.mp3':
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How can I change the subtitles font size in VLC Media Player?
That's my question: How can I change the subtitles font size in VLC Media Player? I try with Preferences > Video > Subtitles/OSD, but I can't find an option to change the font characteristics.
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How can I make the following conversion in VLC from the commandline?
I find the command line documentation a little overwhelming, given that I know almost nothing about codecs and the like...
So the following is exactly what I'm doing in VLC (1.1.11) and it would be ...
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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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How to run VLC command in mac terminal
I am trying to crop a number of videos using the following vlc terminal command:
vlc input.mp4 --crop=480x270+200+100
However, I am getting the following error:
-bash: vlc: command not found
How ...
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Replace audio + sync + save all to a new video file – VLC
I have a video with audio. I have an .mp3 file of the same video but in another language. I need to do two things.
Replace the built-in audio with the new audio.
Because the new audio is not exactly ...
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How do I capture a video of my Windows 7 desktop in VLC media player?
I used to be able to capture a video of my desktop in Windows 7 in an older version of VLC media player. But they've recently changed the UI, and I can't seem to work out now how to record my desktop ...
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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 do I find the video stream URL of my security DVR by myself?
I have this 8 channel DVR with the brand "ELEC" that streams video over the network. However, I can only connect to it using iPhone apps called vMyEye, Asee+, and other similar names. I want to use ...
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How to play 24 fps video smoothly on a 60Hz display?
I use mpc-hc to play videos on Win7 x64. With the default settings (#1), video playback is great most of the time. But for panning shots, playback is not smooth. I stepped through the video frame by ...
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Subtitles in VLC are displayed as question marks
I can't reproduce what made it happen, but since yesterday, for all the movies I play with VLC - their subtitles (Hebrew) are displayed as question marks.
Any resolution? Way to find the source of ...