Questions tagged [vlc]
VLC Media Player is an open-source media player / transcoder / streaming server maintained by the VideoLAN organization.
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VLC forces all videos to be the same size - cannot resize them
All videos I try to play with vlc are fixed with the same size, I can't resize them forcing to zoom in or out to fit the window.
Tried to purge config folder, unistalling and reinstalling.
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Screen goes black whenever video is played (14.04)
I brought a couple of Intel compute sticks (feeble little things) running Ubuntu 14.04 to play a couple of mp4 videos on various screens around the office. One works fine and is happily repeating a 4 ...
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Save video which is playing in vlc
Weird question, but here's the context. I was playing a video in VLC on Ubuntu 16.04. I accidentally deleted the video while I was still playing it. I can still move to any point on the video ...
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VLC displays colors wrong
When I try to play a "Heute Journal" Podcast file with VLC, I get colors that look like someone swapped U and V in YUV color system:
Is there any way to fix this?
I use VLC 1.1.12 on Oneiric
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Not able to install VLC 1.1
I am trying to follow these instructions
They give these commands to install VLC 1.1 on Ubuntu 10.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lucid-bleed/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-...
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VLC won't display AVI via PuTTY: 'xcb vout display error: X server failure' error produced
I'm producing AVI files from OpenCV (on Ubuntu 16.04) - which I'd like to watch.
Thus, I installed VLC using:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc browser-plugin-vlc
sudo apt-get install ...
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Why does my VLC window show weird fonts?
So, I have Japanese language installed on Ubuntu (even though it's not activated so I assume I have the fonts). When I play a file which is named "百物語の幽霊.mp3", it opens VLC but the window title is ...
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sound not working..... Play sound through list empty... help
VLC shows this error
In sound settings... the 'play sound through' list is empty
how do i fix this issue
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Why the horrid artifacts in mpgv playback in VLC?
I have this old exercise DVD, and a couple of months ago I got VLC to play it after some fiddling. That time I was able to set it so there weren't the awful distortions it once again has, and I can't ...
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Enable opengl in vlc
How do I enable opengl in vlc as video output. It's not listed as a alternative.
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VLC crashes in kubuntu 16.10
I have upgraded to kubuntu 16.10 from 16.04 recently, and along with it came a new version of vlc 2.2.4.
But whenever i open vlc it gave me a generic segfault:
VLC media player 2.2.4 Weatherwax (...
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Add files from a network location in VLC
I'm trying to add several video files to my playlist in VLC Media Player. These files are located in a network location and the "Add Files" option displays only local file locations. I tried using the ...
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Playing Apple's iMovie dv-file on Ubuntu?
I couple of years ago I copied a lot of old family videos using firewire and Apple's iMovie.
I moved now more or less to Ubuntu. I was wondering how I can play this files? I can play them with VLC, ...
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Any way to remove Totem but still have video thumbnails in Nautilus?
I prefer to use VLC because it never gives me problems while Totem does. I'd like to uninstall Totem, so all file associations point to VLC. However I still want to have video thumbnails in Nautilus.
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Intel vaapi : can't play mkv with vlc
I can find why I can't play any mkv file with vlc, it seems there is a drawing error, is there a workaround or something ? I have optimus (intel+nvidia) and i'm using bumblebee with last nvidia driver ...
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Russian subtitles don't work in vlc
I have an .mkv file with built-in russian subtitles which I try to run on vlc version 2.2.2 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but there appears to be garbage instead of subtitles. I've tried to change subtitles' ...
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HEVC (x265) on Ubuntu 15.04 is not working (even after installing vlc-plugin-libde265)
I tried installing ppa from strukturag with the vlc plugin but every time I play a movie, I get a green layer over the video. On other players, such as smplayer, it only plays the audio without any ...
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App missing in app list but working if launched
Ubuntu 16.10 x64
I Installed VLC through sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install vlc.
VlC is present in the search bar and working OK (If I open it and use open file it can play the videos), ...
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Ubuntu 14.04.5 Video Freezes When Going Forward or Backwards
I'm using 14.04.5 updated fully and like it so far.
Videos work mostly fine, but if I move to a different time in the video, there is a 3-5 seconds freeze where I see both the new and old frames ...
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VLC won't play HEVC files in 14.04 LTS [duplicate]
I'm unable to play HEVC files in VLC 2.2.4. I use 14.04 LTS. I tried the following solution.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:strukturag/libde265
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc-plugin-...
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How to play Geovision video files in Ubuntu
I will need to playback some video that was made in a Geovision video camera which has its own format.
I was told that there may not be a way to play them in VLC or any other because the video file ...
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VLC 2.2.5 color problem after update in Ubuntu 16.04 [closed]
There where some video driver related updates, after which I have this problem with VLC.
Note that, I have a video paused (in VLC) during update process, and after it completed, that video could be ...
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Unable to install vlc via command line
I am trying to install vlc media player via terminal but its not working.I am using Ubuntu 13.10 64 bit.Please help.
here's what I did:
sudo apt-get install vlc
[sudo] password for amol:
Reading ...
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How to revert VLC media player to its original state?
For the last few days, my VLC media player has not been responding at all. When I try to double click any file or even run VLC media player without any file, it just doesn't open up.
I tried to open ...
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How do I set VLC media player as default video player?
I can't seem to set VLC media player as the default video player. I have gone to System Settings → System Info → Default Applications, and changed "Video" to VLC media player.
However, all movies ...
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VLC on Ubuntu won't resize window to video
VLC on Mac and Windows works beautifully. Press Alt/Ctrl/Command+1/2/3/4, and you get a bigger or smaller WINDOW, perfectly containing the video.
In Ubuntu, you resize (not zoom, as VLC wrongly calls ...
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VLC media player installation on Ubuntu 14.04
I have searched for many options on the Internet to install VLC media player on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr), but nothing is working for me.
How can I fix this problem?
Errors:
root@hiteshb-To-be-...
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Save all music files in a VLC xspf playlist to another folder
I have a VLC playlist (.xspf) of over a 100 songs all scattered all over my computer. I'm looking for a way to save this playlist and all it's songs to another folder - flash drive, external drive or ...
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Ubuntu doesn't read some DVD discs
I have some DVD discs which are not read by Ubuntu (16.04). I have 16 DVD discs with TV series (4 seasons, every season has 4 DVDs), in every season there is one DVD disc containing 4 episodes and 3 ...
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System settings / Sound test fails to produce sound ubuntu 16.04
I have been trying to get a TV card and mplayer to work on ubuntu 16.04. I get the picture but no sound.
I opened System Settings / Sound and clicked on "Sound Test" then clicked on "Front Left" ...
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VLC indicator shows it is not active while playing audio
The VLC indicator has been showing that the application is not active while I am playing audio.
As shown above, the indicator shows an inactive VLC but we can clearly see that VLC is active and ...
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VLC will not launch 15.10
As a relative noob to linux,I will need some detailed help on how to fix this issue.
When I try to launch VLC in Terminal, it shows :
yohji@htpc:~$ vlc
VLC media player 2.2.1 Terry Pratchett (...
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How can I stream video from my webcam with sound from my microphone using vlc?
I can stream video from my webcam using
vlc v4l2:// :v4l2-dev=/dev/video0 --sout="#transcode{vcodec=theo,vb=256}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=:1234}" -I dummy,
but how can I add the sound from ...
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Burst of sound whenever audio starts
OS: Kubuntu 16.04
Whenever I pause and play I hear a loud burst of disturbance. This happens with vlc as well as youtube. I also hear the same sound when my kde finishes loading at startup. Not sure ...
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dmesg | grep saa7164 displays nothing, why?
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04.
I installed a Hauppauge Win TV-HVR-2200 MC card and did the following (from Help with hauppauge wintv-hvr-2250 on ubuntu 13.04):
I copied these files
NXP7164-2010-03-10.1....
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Error installing VLC on Mint [closed]
I've been trying to install VLC on Xenial, should be pretty easy, but then again I only halfway know what I'm doing:
sudo apt-get install vlc
I get a package error every time. I've tried doing the ...
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How to add "Add to VLC playlist" to the right click menu of Nautilus?
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While you are playing any song or other media file on VLC and open another such file, then another instance of VLC opens. (You aren't going to hear and understand anything until you are a ...
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VLC does not save my settings for TracktForVLC
I wanted to install TracktForVLC to track my movies and tv shows automatically. But I am having a trouble setting up vlc on my ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Like mentioned in Configuration, I went to Tools, ...
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Videos/Musics plays so fast on Ubuntu 14.04
Why is it that the videos I play in my browser play so fast?
Even when I play some of my videos using vlc and Spotify, they all play so fast, and now I cannot even hear what they are saying. How can ...
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VLC player automatically closed on suspend - Ubuntu 14.04
When my system is suspended, ubuntu 14.04 automatically closes all the open VLC players. I recently migrated to 14.04 from 12.04, and I was not facing this problem with 12.04. I normally have one or ...
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Can't Install VLC In Ubuntu 16.04 [ERROR]
I am using Ubuntu 16.04. I am a new user want to learn terminal. I prefer using the terminal instead of Software Center. I tried several times to install vlc by using both:
$ sudo apt-get update
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Can't play DVD in linux
I run Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
I know there are many questions about this, but none have fixed my problom. I follow correspondence courses, so I NEED to be able to play my dvd's. Some courses seem to work ...
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Strange behaviour of audio output through HDMI
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I've connected my AV-receiver via HDMI to my laptop. The video output through HDMI seems to work quite well, however I have the following issue with the HDMI audio ...
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Not able to play filename.avi file in VLC
I got a video which was playing on the sender's laptop. When I downloaded it and tried playing using VLC, the duration of the video was shown as 0.00 with no error popping up.
I tried a file --mime-...
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Kubuntu 14.04 as guest in VirtualBox on Win 7 host
I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 guest in VirtualBox with Win 7 host. I have video issues. Videos frequently appear on top of everything else, even things they shouldn't - like menus. If I drag a player on ...
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USB 3.0 HDMI capture card
I bought this cheap Magewell knock-off USB capture card on Amazon that said it had support for V4L2 and VLC support with kernel builds 2.6.38+. It is a H.264 hardware encoder (chroma I422) and I'm ...
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VLC not working after upgrade Ubuntu to 14.04
VLC media player 2.1.4 Rincewind (revision 2.1.4-0-g2a072be)
main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
skins2 interface error: no suitable dialogs ...
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Video display problems Ubuntu on Asus UX305: Skype (and VLC and other programs)
I'd greatly appreciate any help with the following. I have problems with video display, occurring in VLC, SMPlayer and in Skype. For VLC and SMPlayer I have found a workaround, for Skype not.
The ...
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Dependency error while installing vlc . Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
In my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS vlc player can't be installed. Actually I'm new to Ubuntu so don't know much about it.
I tried using Software Center but the following error was encountered.
Error was
The ...
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