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Questions tagged [vlc]

vlc is a media player that comes with codecs for most of the audio and video compressions currently in use. Use this tag for question specific to vlc. For non-specific questions the generic [video] or [audio] might be more appropriate.

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Sound via HDMI on Arch Linux

I've got my Toshiba laptop (Satellite A300) connected to my TV via HDMI. Using VLC 2.2.6, video works just fine. Currently, I'm trying to output sound to the TV's speakers. aplay -l shows the HDMI playback device as the third one: **** List of…
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How to run VLC player in root

I have installed a vlc in centos 6.5. I want to run it as root. But I get the following error, "VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports you can use vlc-wrapper (make…
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How do I find out which process is using my V4L2 webcam?

I tried to run the following: $ vlc -I dummy v4l2:///dev/video0 --video-filter scene --no-audio --scene-path webcam.png --scene-prefix image_prefix --scene-format png vlc://quit --run-time=1 VLC…
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Is it possible to continue movies from where one leaves in mpv as can be done in vlc?

I don't know how vlc is able to do it; I guess it takes sort of time-stamp of a movie and puts it in cache or somewhere like that. This is the way it works in vlc - a. You see a media file, say it consists of 1.5 hours, b. At some point, say after…
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How do I stream to Chromecast using VLC?

I just downloaded VLC 3.0 Beta (using ubuntu ppa) and I wanted to know how to set it up to stream to chromecast. It's in the repo's NEWS that the feature has been added. Numerous news outlets are covering it. But, there is no example of how to…
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How to play AAX audio books from Audible?

I have bought some audio books at Audible. The default .aa files play fine in VLC, but the quality is pretty bad - there's a constant background hum during any speech. Their enhanced quality audio files open in VLC, which displays the frontispiece,…
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Video playlists with start and end times

Is there a good GUI-application (for example an mplayer GUI or something like banshee) for linux which allows to make and edit playlists (for video files) with different starting and stopping times for each video on the list? Added: At the moment I…
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Is there any video player which can seek with thumbnail like in YouTube?

When you watch a video in YouTube, you can seek it with the thumbnail preview. Many Windows' and MacOS' video players have this feature, but what about Linux's? I've already read this same question, but the information in it seems out-of-date. The…
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Alsa - how can I tell my default audio output is card 2 and device 0, not hdmi?

How can I tell my system default sound output is card 2 and device 0, and not card 2 device 3 or 7 or 1? I did this, but no sound. $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Device [C-Media USB Audio Device], device 0: USB Audio…
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How to create a virtual ISO file from /dev/sr0

I want to create a virtual ISO file from /dev/sr0, without having to create an actual ISO file. The purpose is to share it to an Android device running VLC. Android/VLC is only able to open discs (with menu support, etc) as an ISO file.
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How to resume YouTube videos in VLC?

Whenever I pause a YouTube video which is playing in VLC for a few minutes and resume it, it simply plays a few seconds (presumably until the end of some cache) and then stops playback. Is there some way to get it to resume the connection to YouTube…
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Trouble getting VLC to record from the webcam via command line

my ~/.bashrc contains the following function webcamrecord () { vlc v4l2:// :v4l-vdev="/dev/video0" :v4l-adev="/dev/audio2" :v4l-norm=3 :v4l-frequency=-1 :v4l-caching=300 :v4l-chroma="" :v4l-fps=-1.000000 :v4l-samplerate=44100 :v4l-channel=0…
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Enable RTSP in iptables

I'd like to receive a RTSP stream via VLC, but when I try to run sudo -u non_root_user cvlc -vvv -I dummy rtsp://ip:port/x.sdp I get: Unable to determine our source address: This computer has an invalid IP address: 0x0 I think that the ports…
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Transcoding MJPEG Stream to FLV or MP4

I want to transcode MJPEG stream that comes from IP camera (http://xx.yy.zz.tt:8080/video.cgi) to FLV or MP4 stream under Linux OS so that users can play the file using a web based Flash player such as Flowplayer. I discovered VLC for that purpose…
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Suppress desktop notifications in fullscreen VLC

How to prevent desktop notifications from showing up when VLC is in fullscreen mode? Some of my scripts display desktop notifications using notify-send. The best solution would be to configure that critical notifications still show up and low…
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