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VLC Media Player is an open-source media player / transcoder / streaming server maintained by the VideoLAN organization.

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vlc does not display via vlc-wrapper but cvlc works after 22.10 upgrade

After upgrading from 22.04 to 22.10, vlc-wrapper no longer displays dvd video content (sound works). However, and oddly enough, running cvlc works. I am under x11 rather than wayland because of ...
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vlc - audio stuttering on certain dvds only - Xubuntu 22.04

This PC has been on Ubuntu for ~10 years. It has never been plain sailing but had been working until 2 days ago when we left a DVD video on pause in VLC. When we unpaused a few hours later, the audio ...
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VLC is not working on Ubuntu 22.04

I just upgraded my system from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, however, the VLC media player is not working at all, I tried to uninstall it and re-install it (vlc 3.0.18) again using sudo snap install vlc but ...
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limit log size for snap application (VLC)

vlc has a bug due to which it can generate gigabytes of logs in syslog and journalctl (12GB and 4GB). And because of the nature of journalctl, there is no way to clear the log of such garbage. But ...
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why does VLC no longer work as well after I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS?

VLC no longer handles high resolution 4k videos very well compared to before I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04. Other software programs were also upgraded to newer versions without my knowledge until after ...
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VLC Player - Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so (v2)

Fresh install of Ubuntu on an old Intel NUC. The purpose is to play a video on repeat for an installation. I opted for VLC. The video is an mp4. VLC plays the video perfectly on repeat, but after a ...
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How do I get my Japanese VLC song title, out from inside a zip?

I initally had this problem: How to unzip a Japanese ZIP file, and avoid mojibake/garbled characters But that "unzip -O shift-jis [filename.zip]" did the job and I got my nice Japanese ...
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Partial sound in media players Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Problem: When watching movie on VLC or other media player, there is only a partial sound - background sounds only, but there is a lack of sound of dialogues. I can't hear conversations. When playing ...
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xrandr: differential display scaling causes problems with VLC and VirtualBox (fractals)

On Ubuntu 20.04, I am using a dual monitor setup, the primary monitor is an HiDPI display (192 dpi; 3840x2160; 60 Hz), while the secondary one has normal resolution (96 dpi; 1920x1200; 60 Hz; rotated ...
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Unable to play videos on 22.04 LTS

I installed Ubuntu 22.04 back in June and was able to play mp4 as well as flv files without any issues. Suddenly about two weeks ago, I'm unable to play those files either using the default "...
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Unable to play HEVC / x265 video in VLC with display set to 3840x2160 after update to Ubuntu 22.04

I updated to 22.04 last week. I have a GF 660 and I am running the nvidia 470 drivers. I have tried purging and re-installing nvidia drivers already. The following are the symptoms: When display is ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 really strange audio problems when playing videos with vlc/videos app, but no problems in web browser

I'm not even sure how to start troubleshooting this. I have some .mp4 files that when I try playing them I'm getting choppy audio when opening with vlc/videos app. If I open the same files with ...
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H.264 (High 4:4:4 Profile) is not installed

I have recently installed Ubuntu 22.04. Many of videos are not playing. The error is "H.264 (High 4:4:4 Profile) decoder is required to play the file". I searched the Internet and found ...
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How to set standby time for an Intenso external HDD or alternatively reduce VLC video cache on Ubuntu Mate 20.04

When I watch movies with VLC from my external Intenso SATA drive on my Ubuntu Mate 20.04 system, some minutes of the video apparently are somehow loaded temporarily, so that the drive will go to sleep ...
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Ubuntu 22.04. The problem with additional applications after installation

Hello everybody! I installed Ubuntu 22.04, I worked on Ubuntu 16.04. I had one problem with those applications that are not in the official Ubuntu repository and which need to be installed extra, ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 take too long time to open some apps after install an Input method

I still enjoy to use Ubuntu version 20.04 But recently I had a bit of a problem when I reinstalled the system in UEFI mode instead of Legacy. Exactly when I installed ibus-unikey as the new input ...
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Why does VLC player not play videos smoothly after resume from pause on my laptop currently I'm using latest version of Ubuntu 22.04

I'm a student and often I need to watch video tutorials. I pause my video for practice purposes and searching more about the lesson but when I resume the video it starts to distort, cracking voice and ...
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Play Movie On Boot

I'm wanting to automate a cinema with Linux. I would like to Play an MP4 on repeat directly after boot. I currently I have a solution with Windows using a batch file that runs on startup and issues ...
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Revert start-vlc-minimized-from-command-line

I followed this, but I want to revert back. But I can no longer access the settings on VLC. How can I do that? Start vlc minimized from command line
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DVD won't play on Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS

I have been able to watch DVD movies on my 20.04 LTS desktop for several years. Just did an upgrade to jammy jellyfish and this no longer works. The DVD player works fine with data files but when I ...
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vlc playing scrambled videos

This is happening the whole time on my PC with Ubuntu. Is there a way to fix this? I changed the codecs based on this question too, but nothing returned as the result UPDATE: Aug 11 This is the result ...
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How to access videos on USB drive with VLC video player?

I often play videos and like to select multiple files. The problem is, if the files are not on the main drive, say in the 'video' or 'download' directories, I don't see a way to access them. I go to ...
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changing youtube 720p 480p 1080p settings in vlc

I can watch youtube videos using vlc and the lua file VLC - YouTube videos won't play anymore You can run the latest Lua script for extracting YouTube streams by downloading the appropriate file ...
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All videos stutter

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04, 64 bit, Desktop. When I watch a video, it stutters very noticeable. This happens with every video on every plattform (youtube, disney+, amazon video etc.) also with DVD's or if ...
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How to close programs but still running in background

There are music player name Rhytmbox so if you just close the program it will still running in the background. But i don't like rhythmbox, instead i am using VLC to play music. How do i can close the ...
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vlc problem with chromecast

Using VLC 3.0.16 on xubuntu 22.04 to cast video to chromecast, does not work with all files. It works with some (AVI) files, but with some other (AVI) file just connects normally, but video is black ...
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Unmet dependencies problem when installing vlc on Ubuntu22.04: libva-wayland2 : Depends: libva2

When I tried to install vlc on 22.04, I got the following error message: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libva-wayland2 : Depends: libva2 (< 2.13.0.1) but 2.14.0-1 is to be ...
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How can I copy .DAT files from a CD to my desktop in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS?

I have an old CD which has some videos on it. The videos seem to be in the .DAT format. Although they automatically play back through VLC Media Player, both the terminal and the GUI are unable to copy ...
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How to re-install default media player on Ubuntu 22.04?

I installed Ubuntu 22.04 as a minimal desktop install, after a while I realised I could not play any media files due to lack of player. I assume, if I had chosen the option of a full install I would ...
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Lubuntu 20.04 video streaming: colours too pale

Live streams of tv stations are paler than the actual tv programme. This seems to hold true for streaming in browsers (Firefox and Google Chrome) as well as VLC streams. I have Lubuntu 20.04 (lxqt ...
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how do I add leading 0's to filenames that have quotation marks around them? [duplicate]

I downloaded Udacity videos for a course and the file names look like this: '78 - Concurrency Bug Depth Solution.mp4' '79 - Cuzz Algorithm.mp4' '7 - Dynamic Program Analysis.mp4' '80 - Probabilistic ...
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duplicated Ubuntu app

this is a screenshot of the problem so I tried installing vlc with the software center, it installed something that does nothing when I click on the app. so I just tried the terminal, turns out VLC ...
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Segmentation fault opening videos in totem

I just upgraded (not a fresh install) from 21.10 to 22.04 LTS. The upgrade went well, no issues there. Unfortunately, I just noticed that I now have some issues when playing videos. In the last hour ...
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What media players are available?

I'm trying to sync a subtitle in VLC but it doesn't work. Syncing is working in Kodi but I don't like that player. I don't want to install a lot of media players and test them.
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How to disable journald for vlc player

My system is constantly crashing because of systemd-journald going into overdrive and bogging down the CPU (and probably the disk as well) when I watch videos with VLC. I notice this behavior getting ...
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What software to cast a .mp4 with subtitles?

I have a .mp4 and a .srt for English subtitles. I would like to play my video and cast it to Chromecast. What software should I use? On Google Chrome, I am able to Chromecast it but the subtitles are ...
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Do you need to update VLC first before installation? [closed]

I am trying to use commands to update or install VLC on Linux. I am trying to use sudo apt install vlc or sudo apt update vlc but these commands seem like they are not working.
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Cannot play DVDs after installing Linux 22.04

I tried to play DVDs on the Videos package. I got the following error: Despite several attempts installing, removing and reinstalling restricted extras and vlc (both with apt and aptitude) I still ...
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All snap applications including software centre are not opening

After a system update yesterday, none of my snap applications are opening. I tried to run the application via the terminal but I'm getting this error /snap/firefox/1232/snap/command-chain/desktop-...
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I have just installed Linux 22.04 and cannot play videos

I installed Ubuntu 22.04 and typed the following in the command terminal: sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras && sudo apt install vlc I accepted the t&cs and it seemed to install OK ...
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VLC - Why is there green stripe at the top

Is there any reason why this happens? when i'm not in vlc this green line doesn't appear
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Accidentally terminating installing restricted extras and vlc during installation

I tried to install restricted extras and vlc by entering the following code: sudo apt install ubuntu-restricted-extras && sudo apt install vlc I then accidentally terminated the process and ...
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I can't play mp4 video with VLC

I'm running Kubuntu 21.10. I've installed ubuntu-restricted-extras, ffmpeg,and gstreamer1.0-libav, and I still can't play a video from an mp4 file using VLC. When I select the mp4 file, the select ...
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Is it possible to view videos with Amazon Fire Stick using a wireless connection? [closed]

Here goes my enquiry: I would like to watch videos on TV using a wireless network and the Amazon Fire TV Stick. I have the 20.04.1 LTS version of Ubuntu installed, and I use the VLC media player to ...
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VLC how to play all files that contain specific word

I would like to play all files in all subdirectories that contain specific term. I tried it using: find . -type f | grep Song | vlc I think I might be misunderstanding how | works, because it doesn't ...
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UI drawed twice in some apps

Some apps (as VLC and most other video players, VirtualBox "New machine" window as shown on the screenshot below) are drawn incorrectly - some elements are drawn multiple times, which makes ...
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VLC audio and video stutter at very regular intervals while playing back a network stream

(Ubuntu 20.04) I recently experienced a problem when trying to playback a network stream in VLC under Ubuntu 20.04. At regular intervals, the audio and and video would stutter briefly. The same ...
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Hw acceleration lost after upgrade to 21.10

After upgrading to Ubuntu 21.10 I lost the hw acceleration. Now if I try to play a H264 video using vlc I get: $ vlc myvideo-h264.mkv VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (revision 3.0.13-8-g41878ff4f2) [...
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Play the video will cause Z distortion after rotating on Ubuntu 20.04

On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the screen display causes Z distortion when playing a video or switching photos quickly after the screen is rotated. see the recording video. I also tried several tests but still ...
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Can't Kill VLC until Restart

Sometimes, after I play some videos with VLC Media Player, it stops working and I can't use it or kill it. The icon still appears in the system tray. When I click it and press "Quit," ...
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