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That fixed it, thank you.

VLC media player on my Windows Vista PC has suddenly lost luminance in all videos. This applies to videos that I know it used to play well, and which still play well in Windows Media Player, and also to locally captured video (though file titles and subtitles still show correctly). The display is bl...

Thank you for the help, I was unaware of the playlist file format .xpsf. Now I just edit an existing .xpsf file by adding content within tags <track>....</track> in Notepad, remembering to tell it that this is NOT a .txt file. This works for me :) but it is tedious to have to enter the length of eac...

Can you help me make a playlist of video clips, each with subtitles? In Windows I can give this command line: >"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc" "F:\songs\Sorry Her Lot.webm" --sub-file="F:texts\SHL.srt" It correctly plays the video "Sorry Her Lot" with its ...

In Windows I can give this command line:

>"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc" "F:\songs\Sorry Her Lot.webm" --sub-file="F:texts\SHL.srt"

It correctly plays the video "Sorry Her Lot" with its subtitle file.

1) At Adjustments and Effects - Synchronization - Advance of subtitles over video the popup text says: "A positive value means that the subtitles are ahead of the video". I found this ambiguous because it does not distinguish between the purpose and the result. Therefore please change the ...

I use Media - Open capture device to see and hear my PC webcam and microphone. But how can I start and stop recording them to a file?

VLC is wonderful but for me Real Player is a better tool for saving YouTube videos.
A button for saving is added above top right of the video. If pressed, the video
is downloaded to one's disk. That is a separate process so you don't have to
stay to watch the whole on-line video.