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Upgraded to 22.04.2 LTS, now VLC can't open RTSP stream

After upgrading, I can no longer open a stream to my security camera (rtsp://frontcam2/). This worked fine before the upgrade. I can open mpeg files and audio and video work fine on those. I turned on ...
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Error moving VLC to 22.04 desktop

I just updated to Ubuntu 22.04. I installed VLC and want a shortcut on my desktop. When trying to drag it from Files to Desktop, I got the error message that moving it into /home/frank/Desktop from /...
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Playing blu-ray in VLC gets Missing AACS configuration file!

Following the answer here: Missing AACS configuration file" error when playing blueray movies but am still getting the exact same error. Ran with logging: keydbcfg.c:680: No valid AACS ...
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Ubuntu on Raspberry Pi (ARM architecture) - cannot run AVCHD MTS, or mp4 movies

I am running Ubuntu 22.04 on Raspberry Pi 400 (an ARM computer). I can connect to an Internet TV feed, or YouTube, using Firefox, and then the broadcast runs fine. When trying to play .MTS videos (...
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Vlc keeps automuting after system update

I just made an update on Ubuntu 22.04 and the vlc now keeps automating. this happens randomly and sometimes when any other sound alert occurs such as notifications. At times it even pauses itself. ...
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VLC player is not working , Ubuntu 23.04

VLC media player is not working - Ubuntu 23.04 , I just downloaded from Snap error: VLC media player 3.0.18 Vetinari (revision 3.0.18-0-ge9eceaed4d) [000055c2122faa00] main libvlc: Running vlc with ...
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VLC media player is not opening

I have downloaded VLC from Snap but its not opening after double clicking and I deleted it and reinstalled it from Ubuntu app store but still, i am not able to open it pls help me
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playing different audio sources simultaneously (VLC, youtube...)?

I am using Ubuntu Studio 22.04. I would like to use different audio sources simultaneously, e.g. VLC to play mp3 and Youtube in a browser, or two instances of VLC... with all audio sources sent to the ...
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How can I instruct Ubuntu to launch VLC using my integrated (Intel) GPU instead of my default NVIDIA GPU?

I have my NVIDIA GPU set as the default within Ubuntu 22.04, since I wasn't able to get my external monitor to work otherwise. However, I am having trouble getting VLC to play videos correctly using ...
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How can I get 8K H265 MP4 files to play better on VLC?

My Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra records videos in 8K (24 fps), and I'd like to be able to play those videos in VLC using Ubuntu 22.04. 4K videos play OK, but the 8K ones are very choppy and distorted. Is ...
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DVD Only Plays music CD or Data CD

I have the latest LTS of Ubuntu jammy jellyfish + latest addons, extras, + restricted installed. Music CDs are detected and played normally. DOS CD games can be installed & run thru DOSbox. I have ...
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Audio player without favourites

Pls suggest an Audio player which runs in background. Im using ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The audio player should not be added in favourites. I should be able to see only icon on top right corner. When I click ...
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How do I fix VLC sound stuttering after pause/resume?

On most (maybe all) videos, when played with VLC, pause and resume works fine as long it is only a second or two. When I pause the video for longer, after unpausing, the video plays fine but the audio ...
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VLC and other apps not opening. How do I fix this issue? Ubuntu 20.04 still not solved

So a couple years ago, I noticed that VLC stopped opening. I later found this true for a range of other applications I'd downloaded previously - Calibre, E- book viewer, E-book editor, Deep in Voice ...
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Unable to play DVDs on Ubuntu 22

How do you watch movie DVDs on Ubuntu 22? When I install a commercial movie DVD into my player, nothing happens. I've install Xine and VLC, and run through all the guides (mostly outdated ones like ...
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Avi video will not display properly with either the Videos program or with matlab's VideoReader, but it displays perfectly fine in vlc

I am trying to load up some videos (avi files) into matlab to analyze them a bit; I recorded them using myCam 1.1 on Windows 7. I would like to analyze them on my linux computer; however, when I use ...
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Cannot mount and play copy-protected dvd Ubuntu 22.04 (libdvdcss is installed!) [closed]

Greetings to everybody. I have a trouble in reading DRM-protected DVDs on my computer (Ubuntu 22.04). Those DVDs I own personally and I just want to watch them. System tries to read the DVD 3 times ...
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VLC does not start after upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04

I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04; the upgrade went without any (obvious) issues. After the upgrade, when I start VLC - be it from terminal (vlc &) or from the UI - it does not ...
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issue installing tmux vlc using WSL on Windows [duplicate]

I'm using WSL 18.04 on windows 10, and I'm trying to install the following but I get errors: sudo apt-get install tmux vlc Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state ...
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VLC not working when displaying to Chromecast

since a few days, I can't display using VLC any video to Chromecast. I have Ubunu 22.04 and VLC 3.0.18. I open my video with VLC, I change the renderer to my chromacast device and the video simply ...
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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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NUC5CPYH Video playback performing badly

I have had a NUC5CPYH since about 2015...I use it under my TV mainly for watching video files and streaming video (mainly YouTube)...It did perform well but a year or so back video playback ...
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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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Fullscreen VLC raises if hovering over with a mouse

This seems to only happen with VLC full screen (not firefox full screen as an example). I also have Tools > Preferences > Auto raising the interface set to Never. When VLC is in full screen mode,...
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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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System settings: sound through HDMI not functioning properly. Won’t always play audio

So after trying a few alleged fixes online I have gotten to the point where I can get the right front, left front audio test working. BUT audio on chrome, VLC player, Spotify won’t play. AND when ...
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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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How do I fix VLC gibberish on mobile

I wish to watch a movie with Bulgarian subtitles on my tablet, but I cannot because the subtitles are simple gibberish and I cannot understand how to fix it. I can on pc but here its way different.
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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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