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 can I change Media Information in VLC Media Player?
OK, it's under Tools | Media Information. But there doesn't seem to be a way to save the modified file. When I select Media | Convert/Save and save the file as a new file that new file is empty. (I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04: VLC player not quitting
The vlc player is such a great tool, however it is not working properly on my Ubuntu 20.4 Laptop.
Specs: AMD® Ryzen 7 pro 3700u w/ radeon vega mobile gfx × 8
The issue:
When I start the player, it is ...
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How to play a folders worth of music/video in VLC media player
In VLC media player, I can use vlc -LZ <file 1> <file 2> <file 3> for example to play various files on repeat and shuffled. Is it possible to specify a whole directory and play all ...
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KMPlayer buttons and menus are small in windows 10
VLC Player and KMPlayer buttons and menus are extremely small on 4K screen, not even possible to read or distinguish. I am using windows 10.
I do not have this problem with the earlier KMPlayer ...
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Achieving Precise 10-Minute Shutdowns for VLC Player
I need VLC player to shut down every 10 minutes, so I used this command: vlc -I {camAddress} --run-time=600 vlc://quit. However, it's not shutting down exactly after 10 minutes. I suspect this is ...
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How to Limit the Playback bar to 10 minutes in vlc player
I've been streaming an IP camera using VLC player, and after a few days, the streaming stops. It seems like the playback bar, which stores data for rewind purposes, gets too long and consumes too much ...
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How to enlarge VLC control panel interface
I just reformatted my PC and the size of the control panel interface has reverted back to its normal size, which is too tiny since I always stream to my TV. Is there any way to enlarge the control ...
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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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Separating audio m4b file based on a cue file
Separating audio m4b file based on a cue file
How can I split an audio m4b into separate files using a cue file?
Note: The m4b file has no chapters that's why I need to use the cue file to split it.
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Starting VLC via command line to play a video as desktop wallpaper
I'm trying to create a batch script to start a video as a live wallpaper on startup. Right-clicking a playing video and selecting the "Set as wallpaper" option works fine, but attempting to run VLC ...
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How to get rid of the small media player box on top left of screen with video area selection in VLC?
When I open up a video in the VLC media player, it automatically has a little box on the top left of the screen. It's like a miniature video player with a box I can drag around the area to focus the ...
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VLC Stuttering when playing videos
I'm using Windows 8.1 and I'm trying to play a 1080p video using VLC, but it keeps stuttering. I tried different solutions like going to tools > preferences > video > video codecs > FFmpeg and ...
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Split Videos and/or Image Sequences using Video Players
Say I am using a video player like mpv, PotPlayer, VLC, and MPC-HC. I created a segment of a video by setting Mark A and Mark B. Now I want to split that segment from the video or make an image ...
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Why does FFmpeg encoding stall on Ubuntu with DVD video file?
I've encountered a challenging issue while using FFmpeg on Ubuntu to encode a DVD video file contained in a .bin format. Despite various attempts (also employing vlc or bounting converted .iso), ...
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Fast synchronisation of films and subtitles in VLC 2.2.51
VLC 2.2.5.1 on macOS Sierra 10.12.5
I have reviewed various questions and answers on this topic, but I'm unable to make my subtitles work.
The situation is the following: I have a DVD of a ...
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Why did `exiftool -rotation=0 input.mov` rotate my video?
I have an input.mov video file recorded by an iPhone 12 mini. I copied the video to my Windows 10 laptop. When I open the on video on my Windows 10 laptop with VLC, the video plays in portrait mode. I ...
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FFMPEG: Why MKV video converted to MP4 only plays on VLC Media Player?
I have a video in MKV format that I wanted to convert to MP4, so I used ffmpeg to convert it. The command I used was pretty simple:
ffmpeg -i <path_and_name_of_file>.mkv <...
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VLC Audio won't play unless it's a certain headphone (Windows 10)
I usually watch my videos using bluetooth headphones. When I try to play audio on VLC with any other audio device that is not the bluetooth headphones, it doesn't work. This only happens to VLC, I can ...
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Win 10: How can I make an window be always on top but non-interactive (clicks go through)?
I'm trying to set up a small window in my screen that is always on top but at the same time "ghosted" (not sure about the term), meaning I can't interact or activate it and any mouse click ...
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Video playback as minimalist overlay in corner of screen
I only have 1 monitor atm. I want to be able to playback video while I use the rest of the monitor to do work. Using the traditional method of windowskeyarrowkey does not leave enough space to work as ...
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How do I upscale a 720x576 [SAR 16:15 DAR 4:3] video to crop out black bars?
I have a movie from one of my DVDs looking like the following after having imported it and muxed it to a .mkv container:
`ffprobe`` provides me with the following information:
I recently imported ...
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Sometimes when I start a video in vlc player the space bar restarts the video instead of pausing/playing, how can I fix that?
As the title says, sometimes when I start a video in vlc player the space bar doesn't work as expected.
I can watch 20 minutes of a program, and when I press the space bar to pause the video it ...
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Open VLC in background
I have a program that opens VLC to play a sound, but I don't want that other people see the VLC player, since I mirror my screen on a TV. Is it possible that I can make VLC open in background or ...
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VLC - Delete video I currently watching
Is there a short command an addon or an easy and quick way to delete the video I'm currently watching with vlc media player?
Background I have some disc with very much videos and most of them are crap....
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Poor performance viewing video from USB Video device in VLC
In VLC, on Windows 10, I'm having trouble viewing 1080p video at reasonable frame rates from a USB video capture device (HDMI source).
When I use OBS Studio, everything works fine: The video is at ...
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Stream VLC playlist through RTMP live streaming
I am just tried to stream my playlist MP4 file to my live stream. I am using play my playlist via VLC and also stream via VLC. I am using the following code :
vlc --playlist-autostart --loop --...
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VLC Playlist with random selection from folders
I would like to make a simple playlist in VLC where the first file is loaded randomly from folder "A", then the second one randomly from folder "B", then loop from beginning and load different files ...
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Is it possible to manually add addtional codecs to VLC Media Player for a portable install?
I have two DLL files and one OCX file for a proprietary codec format to play some specific videos encoded with it. While I have an "installer" for it that works fine to register the codec for the ...
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Windows network shared folder vlc player can't see
i am using windows 11 home the latest 22h version. I share a folder and use VLC on my TV to play local content from my computer.
VCL never sees the shared folder. But when i disable/enable ethernet ...
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How do I set an 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 numerous mentions online of this being possible.
Ideally, I'd like ...
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Short key to stop VLC player
I have training curse video that runs on vlc player on second monitor. I do sample exercise in Visual Studio on main monitor while watching video. Sometimes I need to stop video in fast way and for ...
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Streaming multicast on VLC over IPv6
We are trying to send a multicast video stream using VLC 2.2.1 on IPv6 protocol between two computer - server and receiver. Both computers are connected via Ethernet cable from one network card to ...
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How to change installation directory path with command line of NSIS installer of new VLC player?
I want to silently install NSIS in D:\VLC. I can do that with old VLC version i.e. VLC 1.1.9. But I cannot do the same for VLC 2.0.5.
Here is the command line I am using
vlc-1.1.9-win32.exe /D=D:\...
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VLC media player select audio track for conversion
When using VLC media player to convert a video with multiple audio tracks into another format (that may support only one audio track) using only one audio track, how do I select the audio track that ...
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How to change the default action, in the called app, per file type in Windows 10?
I use Windows 10 and the default action when double-clicking on a MP3 file is to open it with VLC. However, the file just gets added to the playlist, without playing it. I'd like the default option ...
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How to fix command-line VLC `AudioObjectAddPropertyListener` errors
$ vlc -Z --play-and-exit my_music.mp4
VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari (revision 3.0.20-0-g6f0d0ab126)
[00007fec32124770] macosx interface error: Updater aborted with error 1001
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Solution for choppy video because of bit-rate too high?
When I play a 1080p 10bit-depth video with VLC-player, the video goes choppy and even freezes.
I'm using Dell Inspiron 1525 and VLC 2.1.2.
Windows Vista Home Premium.
Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express ...
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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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ffmpeg h.264 options to pipe into VLC for MJPEG streaming
I am trying to get VLC to recognize ffmpeg libx264 h.264 output from a stdin pipe.
I have a source of raw RGB24 video (currently a file, but eventually realtime from an app) that I wish to h.264 ...
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Poor image quality and high CPU usage while streaming in high resolution using webcam and VLC in 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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How to enable access to a Windows 10 shared folder from android VLC?
Let's say I have this H:\Films directory that I should like to have access to from my mobile (Android) VLC player.
On Windows 10, I created a local user, stream and created a password for it.
Then I ...
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How to upmix stereo to 5.1 in VLC
I'm trying to play non-5.1 (stereo) movies on VLC (Windows version) on a 5.1 system. Unfortunately, VLC by default doesn't upmix stereo to 5.1. I've tried experimenting with different settings and ...
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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 do I create a better drag and drop .BAT file that processes as many files as I select?
How do I create a better drag and drop .BAT file that processes as many files as I select?
The purpose of this batch file is to convert any file with sound on it (mp3, ogg, mp4, etc) to a wav. I want ...
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Why does streaming an MP4 video file from a WordPress site work fine in the browser yet fail when I'm trying to save it to a file?
I am trying to learn more about streaming and why a video that plays fine in the browser is so tricky to download to a local hard drive for offline playing.
It's hosted on WordPress and the full URL ...
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VLC Command Line - Run stream and then quit
I'm making Windows batch files that I can run and listen to a stream in VLC but then press any key to exit and stop the stream. This seems to work but I can see the batch freezes after starting VLC. ...
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Analyze AVI for audio with ffmpeg
I'm new to using ffmpeg. I have some AVI files that I believe should have audio, but I cannot get the audio to play with VLC. I tried using ffmpeg to analyze the AVI files for audio.
import ...
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H.265 and Opus in Mp4 container - is it possible?
I have an MKV file with HEVC video and OPUS audio. It plays great in all players. The problem is that I need it to be streamable. When VLC plays an MKV from the web, it first downloads it and then ...
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VLC as RTSP server - authentication not working
Settings : I have an IPcam and a raspberry (RPi3 running Raspbian with VLC 3.0). The problem also happens when I replace the raspberry by a computer running Debian, also with VLC 3.0.
Goal : My goal ...
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VLC as RTSP Server (Windows) - Authentication not working
I know there is another thread with a similar question, but was recommended create a new one.
With VLC, I am opening a file or a RTSP stream from a camera and restream it with VLC RTSP. I tried a lot ...
