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My VLC updated itself to 3.0.7.1 Vetinari and I also got a Windows Defender prompt when I started VLC. I don't know if my issue is the same as @rajchut558 but for me, Windows Defender blocked an attempt to set up incoming network connections on the local network. This implies that VLC is setting its...

The OP is correct in that the default font for subtitles is not always ideal and you can't change it. Under Preferences / Subtitles/OSD I changed to Font Size: Larger, Outline: Thick, text color: Yellow, outline color: red. I save that, exit VLC, and restart VLC. Ctrl-D and click Play to start playi...

Is it possible for the VLC media player to show two subtitle/closed caption tracks at the same time? I watch quite a few foreign language films and am nearly deaf meaning I rely on closed captions/subtitles. Sometimes I run across a DVD where the conversations are in a mix of English and other langu...

libvlc_media_new_location() works fine and the MRL gets set to "dvd:///F:" Thank you. It appears I got caught by a "gotcha" behavioral change with libvlc_media_new_path() where starting with VLC 2.1.0 it forces prefixing the string you pass to it with the current directory. It us...

Did you try libvlc_media_new_location() ? Not yet - I got the test application I posted above to work by downgrading VLC from 2.1.0 to 2.0.8. I also ran the the same test application on a Windows 7 machine and had the same results. With VLC 2.0.7 the MRL returned is "dvd:///F:." I updated...

I'm experimenting with LibVLC 2.1.0. I want to play a video that's in "dvd:///F:" It's failing with the error being that the path to the media I want to play is getting the current directory inserted in front of it. I've created a test app that shows just the failure point. int main(int ar...

Getting and installing VS2010 Express is easy enough though it means this thread might get topic-banned as VS2010 is not open-source. It may be better if we steer people into how to download and set up gcc for Windows. Plus, vlc 2.0.8 was compiled with gcc. VLC 2.1.0's help/about does not say if the...

Is there a "hello world" available for LibVLC for Windows? Which language compilers/interpreters should someone use?