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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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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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How to make VLC play an iso file directly?

Running vlc /path/to/dvd-video.iso, I'm getting: [0x8787ccc] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `undf'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. notes: The version of vlc is 1.1.3. The DVD plays well when…
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D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up

`VLC media player 2.0.5 Twoflower (revision 2.0.5-0-g1661b7d) process 20124: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such file or directory See the manual page…
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How can I view 10-bit H264 (hi10p) videos in GStreamer video players like Totem?

I have a 10-bit H264 video, but I can't play it in Totem or VLC. I tried recompiling libx264 with 10-bit support after removing libx264-116, but it doesn't seem to work. VLC does not use GStreamer, but seems to also use libx264.
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How can I make vlc play all videos at 50% volume?

Is there a way I can make vlc play all videos at 50% volume by default? I looked at the online documentation but it didn't say if there is a configuration file I could tweak. Is there any way, by editing a configuration file or any other method,…
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Why does VLC superimpose an additional “shadow” image?

This "effect" has been regularly occuring on my Fedora 20 desktop the past few days. It seems strictly confined to VLC and does not affect any other video players I have installed. I have played with VLC settings (including resetting to the factory…
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VLC: undefined symbol

Whenever I try to run VLC, I get the following error: vlc: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libvlc.so.5: undefined symbol: vlc_object_hold I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it (as well as orphaned dependencies), but that only gives me this…
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How to hide album art in VLC?

Some album art is not, well, conducive to work. How can I stop VLC from displaying any album art, without deleting the actual files on disk?
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vlc and matroska format

I have two players installed on Slackware - KPlayer and Vlc. The first one always play matroska format right, but vlc has some problems.Every few minutes there is a lag, white screen and sound crash. Parameters of video: ffprobe version 2.6.3…
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Phonon VLC backend settings

I am testing video hardware acceleration and I would like to know, where are settings of VLC-backend for phonon. Are changes made in VLC itself actual changes that are applied to the backend itself (which in turn should be system wide, not just for…
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VLC media player: hotkeys to change size of subtitle font

VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) Linux 6.1.3-arch1-1 I want to increase/decrease the size of the subtitle font using keys. The default setting requires the mouse wheel which with my settings is impossible to adjust…
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VLC not changing cover art

I'm using VLC Media Player v3.0.16 (Vetinari) on Ubuntu 22.04. I have some .mp3 files I obtained from an external source. The files came with cover art images that I'd like to change, but I can't change them. I've searched for "VLC how to change…
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VLC won't install due to unmet dependencies

I'm running Linux Mint 17.3 and I can't install VLC. When I type in sudo apt-get install vlc This is the result I get: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be…
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Release for VLC 2.2.1

I'm running Debian 8 (Jessie), and I've been waiting for months and months for vlc 2.2.1 to come out. Is there a way I can track the package (in terms of what phase it's currently in) so I can get an idea how long it's going to take?
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How To Update VLC Player on Debian?

I want to upgrade VLC to 2.2.1 on my Debian machine, but the standard commands below are not doing it. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade If I do vlc --version, I see I'm running 2.2.0-rc2 Weatherwax.
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