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Whenever I user FFMPEG to create MPEG1 or MPEG2 video (via the codec setting of mpeg1video or mpeg2video), and then play the resulting video file in VLC player, VLC player always indicates the codec as "MPEG-1/2 Video". Why doesn't it correctly show which MPEG codec is actually in use? It ...

Does anybody have a list of supported dongles for VLC's ATSC digital TV receiving capability? And yes, I do mean dongles, not PCI-E cards, as my computer is a laptop, not a desktop.

In AVI raw (uncompressed) RGB video files (as with BMP image files) the height specified in the BitmapInfoHeader structure (the "strf" header of the AVI file) is actually a signed integer, but VLC treats it incorrectly as an unsigned integer. Correctly handling an AVI file requires the fol...

It's not a bug. The reason the Decoded format field is blank is because "Hardware-accelerated decoding" is enabled in Prefs ---> Input / Codecs menu. When that's set to "Automatic" the GPU handles graphics instead of the CPU. If you want to see data in the Decoded format field s...

I'm posting this here because I'm using the Windows version of VLC, and haven't tested the bug in any other version of VLC, but I know for sure it does exist in the Windows version of VLC. When playing an mp4 video file with h264 compressed video, and doing ctrl+j to see the codec info, it's missing...

An AVI file's stream header for a video stream (at least for uncompressed video) is a BITMAPINFOHEADER structure. The height of the video specified in this structure is a SIGNED value, but VLC mistakenly treats it as UNSIGNED. The sign of the value has to do with vertical flipping. As with normal BM...

Ok. I found what was wrong. When you do Ctrl+P to get settings and go to the Video tab you will see where it says Output there's a dropdown menu. That was set on Auto, and Auto was picking an output method that wasn't working. I manually set it to DirectX and then played the video. That gave me a ma...

A new codec was recently adopted by YouTube called AV1. It seems that ALL YouTube videos now use that codec for video stream compression. They no longer use VP8 or VP9 (WebM video codec) or H264 (MP4 video codec). As a result, when I now rip YouTube videos using video downloader plugins for my brows...

14 or 17 fps should play fine in VLC. Just increase the input buffer. How do I change the input buffer of VLC? However, I don't think changing the buffer will work. The problem isn't it being 14 or 17 fps (fixed framerate). The real problem is that it's not a FIXED framerate. During the course of t...

I have a laptop with external monitor on HDMI. I want the control panel (stop, play buttons, etc) to be seen on my main screen (builtin laptop screen), and a separate window for video display to be present in the second monitor (external monitor, which will face the audience I want to see the video ...

So far, not possible. Do you have a sample? My source is an FFMPEG encoded MPEGTS stream, and FFMPEG's source is an 8bit grayscale raw video stream piped from software I wrote that controls a thermal imaging camera. The output of FFMPEG is done via TCP, so FFMPEG acts as the server, and then VLC co...

I'm not talking about variable bitrate, I'm talking about a video source that has variable frame rate. I need a way to make VLC player play video on an "as available" basis. This means that instead of seeing a lack of frames coming over the network as an indication of a slowdown of the net...

Note, that I'm using Windows 10 x64 for my OS, so I don't know if this is strictly a problem with the Windows version of VLC, or if it affects all versions of VLC (including the Linux version). This problem is something that happens online (keeps going into buffering), but this is happening on my ow...

Y16 is uncompressed 16bits per pixel grayscale. Each pixel has a brightness value specified as an unsigned short (2-byte) integer. I believe that such a video format is valid, as I remember reading about it on a technical forum before, where a certain thermal imager was mentioned to output its raw 1...

Here's a zip file containing 6 sample videos that I made for testing any BVF support that you decide to add into VLC player. https://www.mediafire.com/?73m819qs7w97h9c All 6 of these test files have the following specs: Size = 320x240 pixels Frame Count = 16 Frame Rate = 4 fps The 6 files (and a sho...

I just noticed a typo in the second paragraph, in the section entitled "Frames:". Where it says: For 3 bytes per channel, the color channel order is R G B. For 4 bytes per channel, the order is R G B X, where X means unused (and should remain 0, though it doesn't have to as a valid player ...

I've got a situation, where the audio lags behind the video. I'm not sending over a stream. I'm recording to a file directly. I've gone through ALL the settings for things like "caching" and "delay" in the advanced settings, and set them ALL to 0. I have systematically gone throu...

Your approach does not work with v2 of axvlc.dll. Instead, use dynamic addition of the dll at run-time (through the VBControlextender interface) and access the properties from the .object property. For example, like this in a FORM_LOAD (VB6): Dim m_axVLC As VBControlExtender set m_axVLC=Controls.Ad...

VLC cannot so far act as DLNA server.

Then this is a feature that should be added.

I know it's a long time ago, but has this bug been fixed yet?

If none of these work, please consider implementing DLNA as one of the stream-output protocols in VLC player in the future. http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=111750 Did you even read what you linked to? You linked to a thread on a DLNA client. A client displays the video. A server s...

What does the rv32 filter do?

I misread my notes. Sorry. In the post above, replace the statement set m_axVLC=Controls.Add(<location of axvlc.dll>, "m_axVLC") with set m_axVLC=Controls.Add("VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2", "m_axVLC") You still need to have axvlc.dll registered using regsvr32.exe. Tested with...

network-caching Option not working for RTMP Streams sadly

How does caching have to do with my feature suggestion?

When I do ctrl+n to get to the network stream receiver dialog box, if I want to receive a UDP stream, I would normally expect to just be able to type udp://127.0.0.1:1234, but this doesn't work. I have to use an @ symbol instead like this udp://@127.0.0.1:1234. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if th...