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Revision as of 16:41, 11 May 2015
From the project home page:
- VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
Contents
Installation
Install vlc from the official repositories.
Notable variants are:
- vlc-gitAUR - Development branch.
If you want to play audio CDs, you should also install libcddb.
Language
It seems VLC does not offer an option to change language in its Preferences menu. But you can use the LANGUAGE= prefix. For instance, modify the /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop
line:
Exec=/usr/bin/vlc %U
to:
Exec=LANGUAGE=fr /usr/bin/vlc %U
to switch VLC interface to French.
Skins
VLC can be "skinned" for a different look and feel. You can obtain new skins for VLC from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php.
Installation of skins is simple just download the skin you wish to use and copy it to:
~/.local/share/vlc/skins2
Open up VLC, click Tools > Preferences. When the preferences window opens up you should be in the "Interface" tab
Choose the "Use custom skin" radio button, and browse to the location of the downloaded skin.
Restart VLC for the change to take effect.
Note: You need to install libtar from the official repositories to use the skinnable interface module.
Web interface
Run VLC with the parameter --extraintf=http
to use both the desktop and web interface. The --http-host
parameter specifies the address to, which is localhost
by default. To set a password, use --http-password
, otherwise VLC will not allow you to log in.
# vlc --extraintf=http --http-host 0.0.0.0:8080 --http-password 'yourpasswordhere'
Or you can enable this feature in the UI by navigating to View > Add Interface > Web Interface.
VLC defaults to port 8080: http://127.0.0.1:8080
Edit /usr/share/vlc/lua/http/.hosts
to allow remote connections. You will need to restart VLC in order for changes to take effect.
Tips and tricks
File association in GNOME
Copy the system desktop file to the local one (local .desktop
files supersede the global ones):
$ cp /usr/share/applications/vlc.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
Define its mime types (known playback file type abilities) by doing:
sed -i 's|^Mimetype.*$|MimeType=video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;application/x-flac;audio/x-flac;application/x-shockwave-flash;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;application/x-extension-mp4;audio/mp4;video/mp4;video/mp4v-es;x-content/video-vcd;x-content/video-svcd;x-content/video-dvd;x-content/audio-cdda;x-content/audio-player;|' ~/.local/share/applications/vlc.desktop
Then in System Settings > Details > Default Applications and on the Video drop-down menu, select Open VLC media player.
Twitch.tv streaming over VLC
See Livestreamer#Twitch.
Playing streamed content from a local DLNA server
If you find that trying to play uPNP/DLNA content (by going to View > Playlist > Local Network > Universal Plug'n'Play), that vlc fails to see the DLNA server on the local network, then make sure that the firewall is not blocking port 1900 UDP. It is essential that this port is open in order to play local uPNP/DLNA content.
Control using hotkeys or cli
Install openbsd-netcat.
Get script at: http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=112035%23p112035#p112035
Follow instructions in script to setup a socket for VLC.
Either run the script from the command line or register the script with keyboard shortcuts through your desktop.
Preventing multiple instances
The default settings for VLC is to open a new instance of the program for each file that is opened. This can be annoying if you are using VLC for something like playing your music collection. You can disable this in Tools > Preferences > Interface > Instances > Allow only one instance. Optionally. tick Enqueue files when in one instance mode which keeps current file playing and adds any newly opened files to the current playlist.
Hardware acceleration support
To enable hardware acceleration since version 2.1.x: Tools > Preferences > Input & Codecs, then choose under Hardware-accelerated decoding the suitable item, e.g. Video Acceleration (VA) API
or Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU)
.
To enable hardware acceleration in previous versions: Tools > Preferences > Input & Codecs, then check Use GPU accelerated decoding
.
systemd service
Change the User=
parameter.
/etc/systemd/system/vlc.service
[Unit] Description=VideoOnLAN Service After=network.target [Service] Type=forking User=nobody ExecStart=/usr/bin/cvlc --intf=lua --lua-intf=http --daemon --http-port 8090 Restart=on-abort [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target
Troubleshooting
Video broken or other issue after upgrade
Now and then VLC will have some issues with configuration even in minor releases. Before making bug reports, remove or rename your configuration located at ~/.config/vlc
and confirm whether the issue is still there.
If using a ffmpeg variant from the AUR, be sure that you have upgraded it as well. Pacman will not upgrade it when necessary and a mismatch will break VLC.
Segmentation fault
When starting VLC you can get a segfault, a possible workaround to this is running the following:
# /usr/lib/vlc/vlc-cache-gen -f usr/lib/vlc/plugins
Then reinstall VLC.
Another workaround can be reinstalling vlc within an LD_PRELOAD
environment:
# LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 pacman -S vlc
If nothing seems to work and you have an Intel processor, you probably need to update the Intel Microcode. Follow the instruction on the Microcode page.
This can happen under XFCE, there will be no more icons in dropdown menus, like the or the PCI card icon.
Execute these commands to reactivate these icons:
$ gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/buttons_have_icons true $ gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons true
Failed to open VDPAU backend
By changing some VLC preferences, you can fix the following message:
Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_i965.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or director
In Tools, Preferences, Video tab (v2.2.0 menu) select "OpenGL video output (experimental)" for Output and, in Input/Codecs, "VA-API video decoder via X11/DRM" (both are OK) in Hardware-accelerated decoding (Codecs group).[1]
See also
- List of applications#Multimedia
- VLC homepage
- playerctl: A command-line utility and library for controlling media players
- Control VLC via a browser