Linux vlc config file

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What is VideoLAN? What is the VideoLAN Team?

VideoLAN is a non-profit organization, that produces and distributes free and open source software for video and multimedia purpose, released under Open Source licenses.

It started as a student project at the French Г‰cole Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from everywhere and dozens of millions of people using VideoLAN’s software.

What is the legal structure of VideoLAN?

VideoLAN is a French non-profit organization.

VideoLAN has its own bank account and is fully responsible of this website.

What are the differences between VLC, VLC media player, VideoLAN Client, VideoLAN Server and VideoLAN?

VLC is the official name of VideoLAN’s main product, often named VLC. VideoLAN Client is an ancient name of this product.

VideoLAN Server is another product of VideoLAN, but is discontinued since a long time.

VideoLAN is not a software, see 1.1 of this FAQ.

How can I contribute to VideoLAN?

You might either contribute time, material, or money. You don’t need to be a programmer to help us. We are also always needing some translators and designers.

You will find all information you need on the contribution page.

Why are your mailing-lists and your website in english?

VideoLAN’s developers come from all around the world and english is the only language they can use to communicate together. Although great care is given to the translation of VLC in various languages, maintaining translations of our website costs too much more time than we can afford.

What should I do if I can’t find an answer to my question here?

Read the other section of the Support center

VLC media player

Does VLC support DVDs from all regions?

This mostly depends on your DVD drive.
Testing it is usually the quickest way to find out. The problem is that a lot of newer drives are RPC2 drives these days. Some of these drives don’t allow raw access to the drive untill the drive firmware has done a regioncheck. VLC uses libdvdcss and it needs raw access to the DVD drive to crack the encryption key. So with those drives it is impossible to circumvent the region protection. (This goes for all software. You will need to flash your drives firmware, but sometimes there is no alternate firmware available for your drive). On other RPC2 drives that do allow raw access, it might take VLC a long time to crack the key. So just pop the disc in your drive and try it out, while you get a coffee. RPC1 drives should ‘always’ work regardless of the regioncode.

Where does VLC store its config file?

Currently, a config file is created on a per user basis (there is no global configuration file). If you modify the available options in VLC and save the new configuration, then a configuration file will be created in your user directory. The precise location of this file depends on the Operating System you are running:

• Linux/Unix:
  • $(HOME)/.config/vlc/vlcrc (v0.9.0 and above)
  • $(HOME)/.vlc/vlcrc (v0.8 and older)
• macOS:
  • HOME/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc
  • HOME/Library/Preferences/VLC (v0.9 and older)
• Windows:
  • 95/98/ME: C:\Windows\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc
  • 2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\%username%\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc
  • Vista/7: C:\Users\%username%\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc
• BeOS: config/settings/vlcrc

VLC has a strange behavior.

Please consider the Reset preferences section in our Wiki for a variety of possible solutions.

Videos are too dark

Often this is caused by video hardware overlay problems:

• If it is only one video then use the “Settings” menu, option “Extended GUI” and try to increase the Gamma value in the “Video” tab.
• Check your video card settings and turn off hardware video overlay. If the videos now play with proper lighting, then deinstalling and reinstalling the video drivers might help.

I cannot read DVDs!

Here are a few things to check:

• If you are on Linux/Unix, did you install the libdvdcss package?
• Do you have write access to your DVD device? For instance, from the console: where /dev/dvd is the device corresponding to your DVD drive.

Video is choppy

Your system might be too slow to decode all pictures. It might be that your CPU basically is not fast enough. It can also be that the subsystem is misconfigured/misdriven, this happens for example under Redhat Linux. Here are some elements to improve speed:

• Turn on DMA on your DVD device, for instance:
  • Under Linux:
  • Under Windows, go to the System section of the control panel, and go to the Hardware manager (it is sometimes in a separate tab, and sometimes, you have to go to the Advanced tab. Then, righ-click on your DVD player, and check the DMA checkbox.
• Upgrade to the latest driver for your video board.
  If you are running Linux, you can additionnaly upgrade to the latest X.Org version. If supported, check that the xvideo plug-in is effectively used with:
• Stop other running applications.
• Try disabling framedropping. Framedropping allows VLC not to decode some pictures when the CPU is overloaded, but can result in choppier playback under certain conditions.
  Framedropping behaviour can be configured in the Video preferences of VLC.

Audio and video are out of sync

Try using another audio output plugin and, under Unix, kill esd , artsd or pulseaudio if they are running. If the problem is due to the input file, have a look at the «Audio desynchronisation compensation» option.

Audio desynchronisation compensation is limited by the cache size depending to the selected access module. This can be altered in the configuration panel.

VLC crashes

Increase the verbosity level (either in the preferences or with a -vv command line option) and look at the debug messages (in the terminal or in the Messages window).

If you are convinced that it is a bug in VLC, have a look at the bug reporting page.

How can I take screenshots?

To take a snapshot of the video displayed by VLC, you just need to press the pre-defined snapshot hotkey:

• Windows/Linux/Unix: Ctrl + Alt + S
• Mac OS X: Command + Alt + S

To change it, go to Preferences → Interface → Hotkeys settings, check Advanced options, and set Take video snapshot.

You can also take a snaphot via the menu Video → Snapshot.

To change the snapshot format or directory, go to Preferences → Video.

Where are my screenshots?

If you haven’t changed the snapshot directory in your preferences, your screenshots should go to:

• Windows: My Documents\My Pictures\
• Linux/Unix: $(HOME)/.vlc/
• macOS: Pictures

To change it, go to Preferences → Video → Video snapshot directory.

My file doesn’t seem to work!

Are you sure VLC supports the file? Try checking the features page. If it supported and you compiled VLC yourself, check if you have downloaded and installed all the codecs correctly. If it is not supported, then you are out of luck for now.

VLC doesn’t display all subtitles

If VLC has autodetected your subtitles file, or if you opened it manually, but VLC only diplays some subtitles from time to time, you will need to change the subtitles file encoding.

Go to Preferences → Input / Codecs → Other codecs → Subtitles, and set Subtitle text encoding to the right one.

Go to Preferences → Video → Output modules, and set Video output module to something different, like DirectX video output. Be sure you have advanced options enabled to be able to access this option.
Also, you might need to disable the «YUV -> RGB» checkbox in DirectX section of Preferences → Video → Output modules.

Support and feature requests

Why am I permanently banned from the forum?

Probably your IP address was banned, but it is not necessarily your fault.

• If you are at home, your dynamic IP was probably previously abused by a spammer.
• If you are at work/school, other users on your network may have caused the blacklisting.

Try to go through the list of blacklists presented to you on https://forum.videolan.org/403.html and remove yourself, if you are listed. Finally, don’t forget to ensure that your computer and web browser are free of trojans/malware, and failing everything wait for a new dynamic IP.

Will VLC be available on Windows Phone?

We’re currently working on it. Since development for Windows Phone is harder in comparison to other mobile platforms, we can’t estimate the time needed to release a version for Windows Phone. The latest updates can be received by following us on twitter or subscribing to our RSS feed.

When will VLC be able to stream to Chromecast?

We’re currently working on it but can’t give a release date.

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Preferences

Location of preferences option

Preferences dialogue under Windows 8

Preferences dialogue under macOS

You can edit settings for VLC by navigating to the menu toolbar, selecting Tools, and selecting Preferences (or by pressing Ctrl+P ).

• To save your preferences, click Save.
• To show more options, switch the Show settings radio button to All.

Configuration File

The preferences stated in the options are stored in a configuration file. There is one configuration file per user, stored at:

/.config/vlc/vlcrc since 0.9. Before it was:

/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc

Windows: %appdata%\vlc\vlcrc is generic and is expanded to:

• Windows 95/98/ME: C:\Windows\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc
• Windows NT/2000/XP: C:\Documents and Settings\ \Application Data\vlc\vlcrc
• Windows Vista/7/8/10: C:\Users\ \AppData\Roaming\vlc\vlcrc

When used from the command line, sometimes there are unintended conflicts with settings in the config file; to ignore the config file, use: —ignore-config

Your Preferences

To view/change your Wiki preferences go here.

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VLC где хранит параметры

Добрый день! Помогите разобраться, есть плата видеозахвата на ней несколько камер.При запуске VLC с графической оболочкой спокойно открывает камеры,есть картинка могу настроить передачу по rtp. Когда пробую запустить через консоль не могу даже увидеть картинку,где посмотреть с какими настройками запускается с графической оболочкой?

драйвер использую v4l2

P.S Сильно не пинайте за сумбурность вопроса )))

При запуске VLC с графической оболочкой спокойно открывает камеры,есть картинка могу настроить передачу по rtp. Когда пробую запустить через консоль не могу даже увидеть картинку,где посмотреть с какими настройками запускается с графической оболочкой?

Что имеется в виду?

1. Когда ты запускаешь VLC с графическим интерфейсом, всё работает, а когда без графического интерфейса (например, командой cvlc ), не работает?
2. Или когда ты запускаешь VLC с рабочего стола или из меню программ, всё работает, а когда в консоли набираешь vlc , не работает?

1. Могу запустить через cvlc но только на проигроваивание видео файлов,открыть камеру(устройство) не могу нужны некие правильные параметры. 2.С графикой работает не зависимо от метода запуска (терминал или меню программ)

Это очень странно. По-моему, VLC использует одинаковые настройки в обоих случаях (кроме настроек, касающихся исключительно интерфейса). Всё это лежит в $HOME/.config/vlc (если только не настроены $XDG_CONFIG_HOME и $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS).

Как именно ты запускаешь cvlc из консоли и как именно ты просматриваешь видео с камеры в графическом интерфейсе?

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VLC media player

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.

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Installation

Notable variants are:

Language

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:

to switch VLC interface to French.

Skins

VLC can be «skinned» for a different look and feel. You can get skins at the skins website.

To install a skin download it and move it to

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 select the downloaded skin.

Restart VLC for the change to take effect.

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 bind to, which is localhost by default. To set a password, use —http-password , otherwise VLC will not allow you to log in.

To enable the web interface from the graphical interface, navigate to View > Add Interface > Web Interface. Set the password via Tools > Preferences > Show settings: All > Interface > Main interfaces > Lua > Lua HTTP > Password.

VLC defaults to port 8080 : http://localhost: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

Twitch.tv streaming over VLC

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

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.

Alternatively, you can use MPRIS to interact with VLC.

It is also possible to start vlc with an ncurses dialog

see the documentaion for more information

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 video acceleration

VLC automatically tries to use an available API, but you can override it by going to Tools > Preferences > Input & Codecs and choosing the suitable option under Hardware-accelerated decoding, e.g. Video Acceleration (VA) API for VA-API or Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) for VDPAU.

systemd service

VLC’s web interface can be started from systemd. First, you need to create a default user:

Now create the systemd service file:

Start and enable vlc.service . Log in to http://yourmachine:8090/ with no username and with the password you put in the service file.

Chromecast support

Starting with 3.0 release (Vetinari branch), VLC can stream to chromecast devices on the same wireless network.

• libmicrodns — VLC can find the chromecast device and it shows up in Playback > Renderer menu
• protobuf — enables streaming to the selected device in Playback > Renderer menu

Then, edit the file /etc/nsswitch.conf and change the hosts line to include mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] before resolve and dns :

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

Fault when initiating VLC

When starting VLC you can get a segfault, and ruling out general factors such as Microcode, a possible workaround to this is running the following:

Then reinstall VLC.

If that does not work, VLC has a segfault issue with plugins.dat (see FS#57777), simply remove the file:

Fault when playing a video

Sometimes you can open VLC and use it to play audio files, but it closes when you play a video. You will also get a segfault. It occurs especially when you are using different graphic cards on one computer. Then Hardware video acceleration was wrongly configured, causing VLC unable referring to graphic devices. You can install the following dependencies to solve the problem.

For Nvidia graphic card users: install libva-vdpau-driver .

For Intel graphic card users: install libva-intel-driver .

Missing icons in dropdown menus

This can happen under XFCE, there will be no more icons in dropdown menus, like the PCI card icon.

Execute these commands to reactivate these icons:

Failed to open VDPAU backend

Since your system probably does not support VDPAU you should tell VLC to use VA-API instead, see #Hardware video acceleration.

VLC fails to open a second time after closing

Manually set VLC to use the VA-API acceleration backend in Settings -> Input/Codecs. VLC seems to select VDPAU by default, which is broken for many people.

No playback via SFTP of media files names containing spaces

If VLC does not play any videos or audio files over SFTP make sure you have sshfs installed.

If it refuses to play any media files containing spaces via SFTP and always asks for authentication change the Exec line in the vlc.desktop file to:

Cannot navigate DVD menus

To navigate DVD menus an play episode by episode, optional VLC dependency libdvdnav needs to be installed.

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