Questions tagged [vlc]
VLC Media Player is an open-source media player / transcoder / streaming server maintained by the VideoLAN organization.
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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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Why is ffmpeg and vlc able run RTSP stream but gstreamer is unable to?
When executing this command (gst-launch-1.0 rtspsrc location=rtsp://--- --gst-debug=3) I get this output:
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Not sure how to make sense of this because my RTSP stream is sending via TCP. Also, this ...
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software for detecting voices on audio recording
I record audio for hours on my smartphone for security purposes, personal safety in shared accommodations, and need to prepare evidence but it takes forever to listen to these recordings. VLC really ...
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Raspberry 4b, 8GB of RAM, Youtube playback issue, video tearing, choppy, looks like 4 fps
I have this video playback issue with my Raspberry Pi 4b, 8GB of RAM. My operating system is UBUNTU Desktop, 64 bit version.
spinn2046@UbuntuDesktop:~$ uname -a
Linux UbuntuDesktop 5.11.0-1027-raspi #...
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VLC plays videos with audio dropouts
I have installed ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I use VLC to play DVDs and videos. Audio dropouts occur when playing DVDs and videos. Can someone tell me how to fix the problem.
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Keyboard lag when playing video
While VLC runs, I find that my keyboard becomes very erratic. It repeats letters, misses letters, changes up the order, puts several seconds worth of lag between input and display, varying the ...
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VLC with crontab
Ubuntu noob here using 20.04.3. I'm trying to schedule the opening of an RTSP stream in VLC using crontab, but I'm having a heck of a time getting it to work.
My vlc command works fine in terminal and ...
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Playing DVD movies on Ubuntu 21.10
I have installed Ubuntu version 21.10 on a friends 12-year-old Gateway laptop.
I tried playing a DVD movie with the Videos software included with Ubuntu, it opens the movie but then it just gives a ...
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VLC won't work on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS with NVidia card
VLC will not work on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS.
It randomly freezes the image, but the audio keeps going.
Or it randomly crashes.
Or it randomly freezes the whole PC.
I have first tried the snap version of ...
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vlc plays all videos in same window
I am using Ubuntu 18.04.
I want to play multiple videos at same time in VLC player, just like I used to do in Windows. But when I click to open new video it starts that video in the same video window ...
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VLC can't connect to MiniDLNA
I installed the minidlna on a device connected to the local network and set it up. I'm able to play media from that device using VLC on iOS but VLC on Ubuntu 20.04 is unable to find it.
What I tried ...
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How to fix an app appearing twice in my application list
I have VLC appearing twice on my app list using Gnome desktop on Ubuntu 20.04.I had VLC installed but the app wouldn't launch whenever I tried to. I decided to reinstall VLC,then VLC started appearing ...
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VLC plays an mp4 but mpv doesn't
I have videos that I have ripped off a streaming site, the vast majority play with mpv.
One or two, I get the error:
[ffmpeg/demuxer] mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2: Invalid sample size -3
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After installing dvd source for playing dvd's I got this!
I installed restricted extras, multiverse, other codecs over a week period periodically found out how to get libdvdcss2, and libdvdread4, both where not supplied by the terminal, bash or shell. ...
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Start vlc minimized from command line
This is what Im trying..
sleep 2700 && vlc --start-time=29 --stop-time=60 ~/Desktop/Interstellar.mp3
from my shell script(may randomize the target file in future)
did use
--qt-start-minimized
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Hardware acceleration chrome+youtube?
I am having an issue watching hd (720 or 1080) videos on Ubuntu 21.04 fresh install. I get really high cpu usage (50% on all cores) which is pretty high for a 720p vid. I tried watching the same video ...
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Obs-studio is installing VLC without permission
My laptop is running on ubuntu 20.04. I installed obs studio with sudo apt install obs-studio. Now vlc app is installed with it.It don't even ask for any permission.Did i just installed anything bad ...
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cvlc command does not work after upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04
After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.4 I cannot run vlc from a terminal. This is what happens:
$ ls
MashaAndTheBearCompilation.mp4 NomadenDerLuefte.mp4
$ cvlc MashaAndTheBearCompilation.mp4
VLC media player ...
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Unable to play any rtsp Streams - in XUbuntu and Debian
I am unable to play any RTSP-Stream from any XUbuntu/Ubuntu/Debian Live-Stick or my XUbuntu which is running on my Laptop and Desktop.
I have several rtsp-sources:
an RTSP-Stream on my local ...
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20.04.2 + Ryzen 4k 60fps video playback
Have a laptop with the following specs, and I can't get 4k videos to play smoothly. All I see if 1 frame every few seconds.
Ubuntu 20.04.2LTS
Kernel 5.11.0-27-generic
Ryzen 7 pro 4750u with radeon ...
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Is there a Linux VLC version which supports the SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) protocol?
I use OBS Studio to stream live video using the SRT protocol.
To receive the stream, the current Windows and MacOS versions of VLC can be used.
But the Linux versions were compiled without libsrt, and ...
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Audio from .mkv file stutters when skipping in VLC
Title basically says it all. When I'm using VLC and I jump to a random point in an .mkv video, the audio stutters a bit. It gets quite annoying after a while.
It doesn't happen in other video players, ...
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Pixelated video while in Ubuntu 18.04
When I play some video using VLC or default Ubuntu 18.04 video player, the video seems pixelated. Screenshots from Video and VLC.
I create a simple .HTML file that load the video using the video ...
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How to open a video file in Windows using the Ubuntu terminal?
So I am learning the Linux/Ubuntu command line. One of the things I want to be able to do is to use the Ubuntu terminal (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to open video files (mp4) on my computer (Windows ...
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Media Players (e.g. VLC) auto muting
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.
Today I was listening to some audio using the default media player (Videos). I paused the player and watched a youtube video. When I went back to the Videos player, there was ...
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VLC, as default video player, still not playing videos automatically out of Thunderbird
I have made VLC my default media player, but it still won't automatically play my videos sent in Thunderbird email. I have Ubuntu 20.04. How do I fix this problem? Thank you.
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Cannot play AVI video
I have an AVI video. I have tried it playing it with the standard Ubuntu "Video" application as well as VLC. It cannot be played.
The video has no problems as it can be played no problem in ...
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1080p video can't play in VLC
I was first a Windows user, but recently switched to Ubuntu.
I want to play 1080p .mkv videos on VLC but it won't play properly. In Windows it works but not in Ubuntu.
VLC was my default player, but ...
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Issues with sound since pavumeter is installed
I have an issue with VLC, I have no sound playing until I start Pavumeter.
It happens since I've installed Pavumeter.
To purge the package doesn't solve the issue, it's even worse since I have then no ...
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I am having an error installing vlc, below is the output i get when i type sudo apt install vlc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or ...
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Can't play 1080p mkv videos in default video player or in vlc
I have downloaded ubuntu restricted extras, but I can't play the video file which is in 1080p mkv on my laptop.
In vlc player only audio plays and in default video player audio & video both laggs
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Why is my video fast forwarded after converting it from a DVD with VLC and how can I fix it?
I am trying to convert some series I have on DVD to a digital video file like MP4.
However the first few seconds after the MGM intro are sped forward. In fact, only the video is sped up. The audio is ...
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Unable to play video on ubuntu 21. AC-3(ATSC A/52) decoder, MPEG-4 AAC decoder. H.264High profile decoder are required to play this file
I am trying to play a movie but this is what I get (after downloading VLC) : video error message
So I presses "Find in Software" and I got these options
I tried installing the first 3 of ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.2 removable media (cd/dvd) and usb drives no longer auto mounting
Worked fine until about a month ago when noticed inserting a CD or DVD wouldn't bring up the default player application. Start the player manually and the (internal sata) drive has no problem ...
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How should I fix the following VLC problem? It shows distorted bottom half of the video
I currently have strange issue with video playback using VLC 3.0.8 from official Ubuntu 18.04 LTS repository.
VLC shows gray or distorted bottom half of the video as shown below:
on all full length. ...
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How to play blu-rays with VLC on Ubuntu 20.04
this question has been asked many different times and ways for many different ubuntu versions, but because technology is constantly evolving, i feel it is important to ask this question as it pertains ...
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GOM player alternative for ubuntu?
Is there a video player that can solve these problems??
When I use VLC, its audio system is a little annoying. During speaking, its volume is low. During action and fighting, its volume is high. I ...
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Why can't receive rtp stream on Ubuntu?
I am streaming the desktop over rtp using ffmpeg from computer A. Here is my ffmpeg code:
ffmpeg -f x11grab -framerate 25 -video_size 1920x1080 -i :1.0 -c:v libx264 -preset fast -pix_fmt bgr0 -b:v 3M -...
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Why does the VLC player has lag after pause?
why when I pause the vlc player and then start it after a few seconds, part of the movie doesn't play and jumps forward, while on Windows This problem did not occur.
My system specifications:
CPU: ...
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VLC Hardware Decoding not working in Wayland but working fine in Xorg
I am trying to get hardware decoding for video in VLC in Wayland. vainfo in Xorg and Wayland is identical for me:
When I run VLC in Xorg, hardware decoding works fine:
However in Wayland, it doesn't ...
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vlc cannot play video files inside rar
I have a .rar file and it contains some video files.
When I open the rar and then try to open the video files from there directly it fires up vlc but vlc throws this error
VLC is unable to open the ...
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Strange problem with VLC 3.0.12 on Kubuntu 21.04
A strange problem occurred with VLC 3.0.12 on Kubuntu 21.04. Basically if I go to open a video while it is in use by another program (for example I had opened a video while it was in use from the ...
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Removable dvd-station does work in Windows 8.1, does not in Ubuntu 20.04
I used (see https://itsfoss.com/play-dvd-ubuntu-1310/) the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository multiverse (already installed)
sudo apt install libdvd-pkg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg
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