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Hello, I'd like to use VLC to stream audio content (no video) to a Raspberry Pi that has attached speakers. The intermediate goal is to listen to a YouTube live stream with these speakers and a Raspi. My final goal is to explore live audio distribution to multiple speakers from arbitrary sources (fi...

Great, thank you all! MKVToolNix has converted that stream into a file that I can view again.

Has anybody got an idea how I could read and convert that old video file?

Just a short follow-up, could you already make any progress with this?

I have an old video file here that I could play with an unknown video player many years ago. It's a short sequence that I'd like to convert into something that's compatible with today. VLC can't play it and I have no idea what format it is. I've uploaded it here ([url]https://ygoe.de/s/RPfZM5c1SvYm5...

Same question, any news here? VLC 3.0.8 still has the same issue.

Any news here on no. 3? I just discovered the same issue and it's annoying. When I navigate the playlist with the arrow keys, I really don't want to change the volume with no easy way to change it back immediately. Also, there's another annoyance related: When scrolling the playlist with the mouse w...

Yep, that works as expected. Requiring the display will keep it on. Requiring just the system will allow the display to turn off and the computer to lock but keep the system active. VLC audio playback then continues while the monitor is off and the device needs minimal power. No other code required,...

I think I can find out whether the Windows API function has the desired effect. I'll create a test application (outside VLC) to see what happens.

So the SetThreadExecutionState function is only used in modules\video_output\win32\inhibit.c and it is always used in a way that prevents the display to turn off, never the system alone. Looks like this isn't all that could be done with it. It only covers video playback but totally ignores audio pla...

A friend has asked me: When I play back audio on my Surface Pro, it stops after a few songs. This is the energy configuration which puts the device in sleep mode after a few minutes on battery. We don't want to change that, but he does want the music to keep on playing, which is totally understandab...

Seen in v3.0.2 on Windows 10 x64. I'm now downloading the update through the website with https.

To divide these numbers, I'd first have to separate the audio from the video stream. I wasn't going to edit that stuff, I'd just like to know from a quick look. I know that some encoders are configured with a quality level, but I'm not interested in that. I'd just like to see how many bits per secon...

Can't this value be determined exactly? I mean there is only a finite amount of data for the audio stream and it has a known length. My math education tells me there is a way to calculate it.

Hi,

how can I see the audio bitrate of a video file? The codec info dialog doesn't have this information. ffprobe also can't show it to me.

I'm using VLC player 2.2.6 for Windows.

Hi, VLC doesn't look too good on High DPI devices like the Surface Pro 4 or the Yoga 2 Pro, both with 200% scaling. The UI tries to scale and provides sharp rendering of HD videos, but the toolbar and other UI graphics are too tiny to click comfortably. That makes the program almost unusable on such...

I can now play single songs from the songs tab. When I tap on it, it starts playing almost immediately, the the UI is frozen. After ~15s the title is shown in the notification bar. After ~20s the playing song appears in the bottom panel. When I pull up the bottom panel to see the current playlist, t...

I'm looking for a decent audio player app for Android 4.4 and there are not many. Most are crap. VLC makes a very good impression from the UI and seems to be able to play new .aac files that neither Google Play nor AudioPlayer are able to open. Unfortunately VLC is extremely slow. I hangs every now ...

Hi, I'd like to stream the webcam's image and sound to somewhere else on a local network. The server is an ALIX box, I only have SSH access but no X or other GUI. Since the streaming how-to only explains the GUI and the command line documentation of VLC is merely a stub, I have nowhere to turn to us...