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I understand how to configure my linux OS to allow a process to have realtime priority, but how do I configure the media player (using libvlc in C) to request realtime priority. I couldn't find anything in the docs or searching the web. Thanks.

Thank you sherington. Adding "--sub-filter=marq" to vlc_args did the trick. I'm still a little confused about two things: 1. why you need to pass command line arguments to the instance, instead of just being able to setup everything directly through the libvlc API. 2. what is the differenc...

I'm trying to find a way to disable filename marquee without affecting other marquees. I can disable the filename marquee by passing the --no-video-title-show option to the instance: const char * const vlc_args[] = { "--extraintf=http:logger", "--verbose=1", "--file-logging&...

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On whim I recompiled vlc with the fontconfig and truetype flags activated. Now it works. Thanks again Whsperz for the correct format of the options on the command line. Now back to libvlc to see if I can get it working there.

Thank you for you example Whsperz. That got me a little farther along, but still no marquee on the screen. Now if I issue this command: cvlc --extraintf=http:logger --verbose=2 --file-logging --logfile=vlc-log.txt --sub-source="marq{marquee=Ch. 002 VOD Barker from Local Content Server 01}"...

I originally thought this was a problem with my coding using libvlc, but then I realized that I couldn't even get the marquee to show from the command line. Here is what I am trying: cvlc test.mpg --marq-marquee "hello world" I've tried a number of other options as well, but nothing seems ...