VLC Media Player is an open-source media player / transcoder / streaming server maintained by the VideoLAN organization.
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Why isn't VLC the default video player?
Why does Ubuntu come with Totem set as default? Is there a reason or am I just wrongly assuming everybody thinks Totem is actually inferior to VLC?
Edit: not to mention VLC is vastly known as perhaps ...
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How to set VLC as default video player?
Can't seem to set VLC 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 still open with ...
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Skype and VLC sounds sizzle/distorted/bad
I have the same problem as described in the questions skype notification sounds sizzled and bad sound on login to skype. But it is not only the login, notification, but also when talking to somebody. ...
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How to update VLC to the latest version?
As VLC 2.0 is released, how do I get it in Ubuntu (XUbuntu actually, in my case) 11.10? Any PPAs or packages to download? The official page says "Ask your favorite packager..."
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Way to make video-thumbnails generate from VLC instead of Totem?
I'm suffering from problem that video-thumbnails do not appear in nautilus for some video files. I just found this bug typefinding: some mpeg files are not identified as mpeg files which seems to ...
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How to host a video conference with VLVC?
I just found out that you can use VLC and VLVC to hold video conferences between 2-10 people, and that sounds amazing, hopefully removing the heavy lean on Skype.
Can anyone tell me how to set up ...
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Can't change global default video player to VLC?
I have already set VLC for default video player but still vids, movies, etc. open in Banshee and I cannot find anyway to turn that off. So far I have to manually tell each vid to open with VLC and to ...
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How to register VLC as a multimedia player in Ubuntu system?
In "Preferences - Preferred Applications" there is a choice of Totem and Rhythmbox (actually it was, before I've uninsulated both of them favouring DeadBeeF for audio, raw mplayer for video and VLC ...
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Playing Blu-ray using VLC
I've been searching for a way to play Blu-ray using VLC on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit and all of them tell me that I've to somehow rip the disk into .mkv format then play it.
But today, I found a page with ...
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Why do flash players consume up to 20 times more CPU than VLC player to view exactly the same video file?
When I play a video (H264 MPEG4 AVC 320x180) online (in Firefox or Chrome) it uses to consume up to 100% CPU, but if I download it (exactly the file played) and use VLC - it takes just 5% (6% at ...
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How to make the keyboard media keys to work with VLC globally?
My keyboard has media keys and they work globally on Unity with Banshee but don't with VLC when another app is focused.
How to fix that?
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Is there a way to control VLC from the Sound Menu?
Is there a plugin for this?
I'd really like to be able to pause/play/skip in VLC from the sound menu.
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VLC will sometimes have issues displaying video in fullscreen.
Recently VLC has been having issues displaying video in fullscreen mode. AFAIK, nothing has changed with the video card drivers and it's certainly the same version of VLC. (/me shakes a fist at the ...
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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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How to play full screen video on second monitor?
I have two identical monitors, and when playing a full screen video on one of them using the default player or VLC and then working on the other monitor - the top bar and the launcher appear above the ...
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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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How can I stream my audio output with VLC to my Android device?
I want to use my Android device like a wireless headset, I want to stream my audio output with VLC and listen to that with an Android app. How can I make this happen with VLC? and what app can I use ...
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Can't play .MKV files
Im using a an Acer Aspire Revo R1600 and for some odd reason with this new version of Ubuntu i can't play .MKV files anywhere. I have always had flawless playback but now im getting a weird message ...
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Can anyone recommend a good VLC alternative?
I'm getting sick and tired of VLC. The issues are too many to mention in detail, but generally: bugs (ballooning out of memory on fake/exotic movies, leftover windows, many others) and the ergonomics ...
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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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How do I record the NASA HD TV feed?
I have been trying to figure out a way to record NASATV HD live feed/broadcast but it seems to be harder than I envisioned.
Anybody with enlightened suggestions? I am in the dark...
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How do i set a VLC instance to run as a Live Wallpaper
I've seen an article describing how to use VLC as a live wallpaper for the desktop, however the options mentioned there only refer to Windows.
What would i need to do to achieve the same result?.
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How to update to VLC 2.0 in 10.04?
Is there any PPA for to update VLC to 2.0 version in Ubuntu 10.04? If not how can I update it. I have already tried this ppa
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc2
sudo apt-get update && ...
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How do I stream my microphone via VLC?
I'm sure this is a quick one if you know it but I'm stuck been searching around for a long while now.
All AUDIO works mic/Spkers/Skype etc... which is great.
What I am trying to do is get the mic to ...
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vlc 1.1.9 not working properly
I have installed vlc 1.1.9 on wubi installed Ubuntu 11.04 using Ubuntu Software Center.
Now when i tried playing videos in vlc (any format)
full screen mode doesnt show controls
and usually doesnt ...
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VLC “:rate=2.0” - Where do I put this in command-line?
I figured out a way to transcode my videos so that they would play at double speed using the GUI as "Convert/Stream" --> "Show More options" and adding ":rate=2.0" after ":file-caching=300" in the ...
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How do I enable hardware accelerated video in VLC with Intel HD 4000 GPU?
I am running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell Latitude E5530, and I am unable to get hardware accelerated video decoding running in VLC player.
I've ticked the hardware acceleration option in the settings of ...
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Sound in VLC is out of sync [closed]
After a minute or so all my sounds in different videos and formats gets late.
I've tried to reinstall VLC but it didn't help.
Please help I can't play any videos because of that.
It's late about ...
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How do I play m3u8 files?
I would really like to play m3u8 files (more specifically, http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/NTV-Public-IPS.m3u8) but when I try to run it on VLC player, it goes on to multiple .ts files with a ...
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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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Where is the GUI for VideoLAN?
I installed the videolan player
sudo apt-get install vlc-nox
but now if from the terminal I type vlc, instead of a GUI appearing, I get this in the terminal:
fdr@maggie:~$ vlc
VLC media player ...
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How do I open Youtube content in an app instead of my browser, while clicking on a link?
Now when I follow a link in my browser to Youtube, it opens in a new page of my browser, in my case Firefox.
I would have liked that it provokes the launch of another app, for example Minitube, VLC ...
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How do I play a real media '.rm' file
No player seems to support the Real Media codecs I need. I have even tried VLC and movie player, both of which failed.
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Presentation with many fullscreen video
I am currently creating a presentation (like power point). I have tried multiple applications to create this presentation but there are some problems.
I have tried
Ease: Program is not stable ...
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Audio and video are out of sync
I just upgraded to Oneiric Ocelot and a problem that was already present in Natty has become worse - namely, the audio and video are not in sync both in VLC and in mplayer. The problem only used to ...
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VLC won't play DVD Ubuntu 12.10
I try to play the DVD "Toy Story" with VLC player and installed libdvdcss2, but when I attempt to play it, VLC just closes.
I already ran VLC from the console to get more output before it crashes and ...
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Is there an up-to-date VLC PPA for 10.04?
I'm looking for updated VLC builds for Lucid.
I was using c-korn, but it's gone.
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How to play embedded flash videos in external players?
As discussed in a separate question, embedded flash videos are abnormally heavy on GPU resources.
The answer given by izx here (and namely in one comment) shows that
”Flash 11+ "attempts" ...
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Weird color problem with movie players
Both the built-in Gnome movie player and vlc both have strange color distortions : human skin color changes to blue; if it was pink it changes to green ; if it was yellow it changes to pink.
The weird ...
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How do I change the VLC icon on the launcher?
I am trying to change the default orange cone icon for the VLC media player on the Unity bar in 11.10. I have tried following similar posts in this forum, but without any luck. I changed the vlc.png ...
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How do I get DVD to play in VLC from unity dash launcher?
Once I put the DVD into DVD drive, it appears in the Unity dash/place. Clicking the icon opens nautilus. How do I make clicking the icon to open VLC player and start playing it ?.
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How do I force Gnome Commander to use VLC instead of Movie Player by default?
When I double click on a video file in Gnome Commander, for some reason it opens in Movie Player (Totem?) instead of VLC, which is set as preferred for all file types. Clicking on the same file from ...
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Saving subtitles found by the VLC extension “Subtitle Finder”?
I found a VLC script called 'Subtitle finder' (here) that downloads and displays video subtitles 'on-the-fly': they are downloaded and displayed during playback, and it works great, but does not saves ...
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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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Subtitle are not working in vlc
I had installed VLC 1.1.4 in ubuntu 10.04 via a PPA. After I installed it, I have not been able to view subtitles after loading it. It appears as a rectangle in place of text.
How can I fix this?
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Choppy video playback 11.10
I just installed 11.10 and I also installed the ATI prop. driver. Whenever I try to play a mkv file in mplayer, smplayer, or vlc, it is choppy. And in the case of VLC the audio is messed up also. Any ...
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VLC media player stable PPA for 10.10?
After using both Ubuntu 11.04 (for Unity) and Fedora 15 (for GNOME 3), I've reverted back to Ubuntu 10.10 for its better classic gnome experience, and have no plans to upgrade until Oneiric releases ...
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How to make quicklist for VLC Media Player with playback controls
I am trying to make a quicklist for VLC that has playback control, if possible. Using this link as reference, I've made a copy of vlc.desktop and added the following to the bottom in Gedit:
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integrate VLC 2 in the sound menu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to control VLC from the Sound Menu?
How to integrate VLC control 2 in the sound menu Ubuntu 11.10? I activated the VLC options of MPRISv2 and nothing ...
