VLC Media Player is an open-source media player / transcoder / streaming server maintained by the VideoLAN organization.
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Troubleshooting Firefox and VLC Mozilla plugin
I may be reaching here, but I figured this form would be worth a shot. I'm working with our new HP "ThinPro" thin clients based on Ubuntu 10.04, but a very stripped down version of it. Its running ...
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Overdriven/distorted sounds with Pulseaudio [closed]
I'm experiencing some odd problems in some applications that use pulseaudio, in particular VLC Media Player and Skype.
The sounds reproduced by these two application sound overdriven, distorted, as ...
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VLC plugin does not work in Chromium
VLC plugin works in Firefox, but not in Chromium for me.
VLC player appears inside the browser, but during the loading will freeze.
Any help will be appreciated!
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HD Video Peformance Unacceptable [duplicate]
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Smooth fullscreen 1080p playback
Was wondering if anyone could help me boost HD 1080p video performance on my machine? I've got an AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core processor, 2 ...
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VLC lagging while running HD videos
My vlc player keeps lagging while i play hd videos. To be more especific, it has been lagging in mp4 files with 720p and 1080p.
It keeps stopping like 10 seconds to 10 seconds. The stopping time is ...
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how to play flash videos in a browser using mplayer or vlc
Give the excessive use of CPU while playing flash videos, I am interested in using mplayer or vlc instead. I tried the greasemonkey script with this userscript in Firefox and Chrome, but it kept ...
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How to play back multiple videos, stopping after each one?
I want to watch a number of trailers and make notes inbetween each one. So, instead having them play one after the other without stopping, I want each one to automatically stop once it's done, and ...
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what is the issue between VLC and Firefox in ubuntu 12.04?
In ubuntu with the XFCE interface when I have VLC loaded and attempt to load Firefox the video freezs and loops for almost a minute. I have a 64 bit AMD with 2 gb of ram. I am also running a nvidia ...
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How to read ANSI encoded .srt files in the right way?
Is there anyway of any media player that I can view Arabic ANSI encoded .srt files in the right way without converting them to UTF-8 encoding ?
I tried VLC, Gnome mplayer and the default Movie player ...
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Distortion when I watch movies on vlc in full screen [closed]
Whenever I use vlc player or the default Movie Player for some reason when I go full screen it goes either black and plays sound or it goes white with the picture in the top left corner but I can't ...
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VLC media player sound problems in 12.10
When I try playing .m4v files in VLC the sound track doesn't play correctly, and I get a kind of buzzing staticy distorted version of the actual sound, I'd really appreciate some help as I don't ...
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How do I get media players to play ripped dvd files using Handbrake?
I want to rip my dvd collection to put on a server for my tv. I started this with trying 4 dvds using Handbrake. The first 3 ripped perfectly fine according to the directions I used from LifeHacker ...
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How do I make VLC completely disable xscreensaver?
There are some Internet hits for this query, but none has a satisfying answer.
How can I make VLC and xscreensaver play nice together on Ubuntu 12.10 (using xmonad, not Unity or GNOME or anything)?
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vlc-2.0.4 installation error(lua)
i upgraded ubuntu 10.0 to 12.04,install vlc2.0.3 via software center,but HD videos not plays perfectly..so i downloaded VLC-2.0.4 & installed through below command,but gives lua error,
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unable to install VLC player through ubuntu software centre [duplicate]
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How do I deal with “unauthenticated sources” errors in the Software Center?
i am using ubuntu 12.04 version. i am trying to install VLC media player through software ...
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How to install older VLC version
I want to install older version of VLC (1.1.9) because of the sound bug in 2.* which makes it unusable (sound is distorted when the user sets the volume > 100% and then you can't fix it anymore). I've ...
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Audio playback: part of song is skipped
I am experiencing some problems with music playback after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10.
Basically some of the songs stop playing after some time as if the song has ended. It's always the same songs and ...
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vlc player scrambled audio after skipping through a movie
When I watch a movie in vlc and I fast forward or backward the sound suddenly becomes very creaky, it sounds hollow and scrambled, after a few minutes it goes away.
I just installed Ubuntu 12.10. and ...
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dvds not able to play in VLC nor Movie Player, 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Could not read dvd despite having restricted extras
im trying to play a movie on my ubuntu machine using VLC or Movie Player.
the source of the movie is a dvd.
both ...
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How to revert vlc media player to its original state?
For the last few days, my vlc player is not responding at all, when i try to double click any file or even run vlc without any file, it just doesn't open up.
I tried to open it through terminal and ...
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Is there any video player that plays Youtube playlists?
Flash support for Linux is still lacking. Older hardware often performs only poorly when trying to watch youtube videos.
There are several external players (VLC, mplayer, minitube) that alleviate ...
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VLC Ati Radeon 6870 Ubuntu 12.04 image skewed flicker
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 with ATI Radeon 6870 connected to my 40' Sharp TV.
The video image is slightly jigged, like breaking a bit and slightly delayed. It just isn't smooth. The computer is very ...
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How to stream H264 Video from camera over FTP?
I bought a h264 security camera system last year and set it up to ftp video to my computer. I was able to get the video to play (even though it played a little fast) on Ubuntu 11.04 using mplayer.
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How to install VLC's nightly builds? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to update VLC to the latest version?
Hello guys,
I have already installed stable version of VLC from Ubuntu Software center. But i would like to try the latest beta ...
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VLC - YouTube videos won't play anymore
I would like to play youtube videos on VLC.
I am newbie (one of mac os re, but can fallow instructions :)
when i enter address on network stream nothing happens it is on the playlist but nothing ...
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Can't reinstall VLC
I use VLC a lot. And when 2.0 came out Ubuntu did not update to that version, the REPO had the older version even months later, So I added the daily repo:
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VLC package dependencies broken & cannot be resolved [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I resolve unmet dependencies?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 32bit. Today, suddenly some updates had arrived but it wasn't normal update. It said me to partial update. ...
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I cannot play some WMA files
I did a backup of several music files from my older Windows XP system. Now I can play all the .MP3 files but not all the .WMA. There are some kinds of WMA files that can be reproduced without ...
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Problem with updating plug-in Ubuntu 12.04 Movie Player [closed]
I am trying to update plug-ins required for movie player and audio player. It is showing which plug-ins need to upload, but it is not downloading it. My country is India. Saying that your country is ...
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VLC 2.0.3 on Lubuntu 12.04: No audio?
I am on Lubuntu 12.04, and I have installed VLC media player version 2.0.3. When I try and play an audio file, it appears to load fine, and the media position bar displays the progress, and it says it ...
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How to record “stereo mix” with VLC?
I would like to record a stereo mix (basically what I hear through the speakers connected to my sound card) from VLC. However, I haven't been able to figure out exactly how to do this.
Under the ...
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Ubuntu Audio Pitch Shifting filter
I'm currently developing a video player software which intended to be an embeedded player.
I'm using Java with VLCJ library for the video player.
What i'm looking is a way, something to transform the ...
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Sound static in VLC Ubuntu 12.04
When I set the audio output module to Pulseaudio, Audio memory, or Open Sound System, the sound works sometimes, but usually is very staticy.
If I switch to Alsa, the sound works fine, but if I pause ...
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How to disable sleep/screensaver Kubuntu 12.04 LTS and VLC?
I watch VLC for a while, then about 15 min. later, it sleeps.
Where can i find the how to disable the screen-saver or how to disable sleep?
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AVI files dont play in VLC from ISO mounted disk
I noticed this problem many times and I would like to know if there is any solution.
So when I mount ISO files and try to watch some AVI files I got vlc errors.
If I copy and paste the same files from ...
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Firewall settings for VLC (streaming)
I'm watching online TV with VLC and http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u.
Does anybody know which ports and protocol must be enabled in my firewall settings? I've been searching on the ...
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dpms/screensaver off “fullscreen-video” trigger?
Is it possible to trigger dpms/xscreensaver off with fullscreen video such as mplayer or VLC ?
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Start VLC with Playback Speed Increased
I know that I can change the setting for playback in settings and this will affect vlc globally. However, I don't want EVERY file to be played faster, only mp4 files. Therefore, I figure I can setup a ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Mozilla quicktime stream not working
I tried to watch some trailers from apple.com but suddenly it is asking for Quicktime instead of showing the movie.
It used to work until last week, not sure if some update messed someting up.
Any way ...
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How to restore video thumbnails? [closed]
Im on 12.10 and in storm of changing things my way i unistalled Totem\Mplayer for VLC and now i have no thumbnails in Nautilus.
How to restore video thumbnails without installing Totem/Mplayer combo?
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VLC subtitle stops in the middle
I am using VLC player and while watching the movie "After the rain" the subtitles simply stops. I checked the .srt file, nothing seems wrong with it. Also, this behavior is the same in Banshee. How ...
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how to install vlc player from tar file
After getting vlc-2.0.3tar.gz I extracted it and then tried the ./install, but it gave me an error. Then i did ./configure and got this..
configure: error: No package 'dbus-1' found.
Then tried ...
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Sound lag in VLC after I resume from a paused movie
I recently made a shift to Linux and this never used to happen when I was using windows. After I pause a movie and I press play again, there is a sound lag. I have to restart the movie every time I ...
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VLC media player, conneting to IPTV
Background:
I am trying to connect to my school's IPTV system.
I can connect by using VLC player on a Windows machine.
Currently I am trying to connect to IPTV with VLC on an Ubuntu machine.
I keep ...
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VLC package dependencies cannot be resolved
When I try to install VLC media player this pops up:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vlc: Depends: vlc-nox (= 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) but 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 is to be installed
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Webcam detected but not showing up
I'm using Acer 4530 with Suyin webcam. The webcam can be detected but not showing anything. Before I start anything, I ran lsof /dev/video0 to make sure nothing is using the camera, and I started ...
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How to enable app menu in vlc?
Call it a minor annoiance, but I'd really like if vlc used the app menu instead of displaying it in the main window.
Is there a way to correct this behavior?
I don't really know if this would ...
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How to keep volume optimum irrespective of bitrate?
I am using VLC media player on Ubuntu 12.04. A few videos having high bit-rate play sound very loudly. To an extent I feel that it may affect my speakers.
Some references:
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Disable VLC's MPRIS plugin
I'd like if possible to disable VLC from using the MPRIS interface. I use the Gnome-shell media player extension and it also includes VLC in it which i dont want to.
Does anyone know how to do that? ...
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Can't open .wmv video files [duplicate]
I installed 12.04 and installed all plug-ins related to video drive.
I installed VLC player and tried to start a .wmv file but I get this error:
No suitable decoder module:
VLC does not ...
