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Jean-Baptiste Kempf responded on May 12, 2017 : "Use any Nightly Build of VLC and you will have the full UI." It is obvious that he doesn't understand the question. I hope he looks at this thread again. I have the same issue on an ASUS PB287Q 4K Monitor. All of the menu, sidebar, popup dia...

Since I first made this post, I've been trying to get the answer to one question:

Is it NORMAL BEHAVIOR for the VLC command to open another window to execute the command? Or am I just doing something wrong?

Does anyone know the answer to this?

Thanks, but I was already able to find the contents of the help file. My question is: Why doesn't "vlc -H" work properly? Why does it open another window where most of the output gets scrolled off the top before you are able to read it? Can't you change VLC's behavior to display the output...

I tried that and it did not do that. There was no file of that name in my "C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC" directory, where vlc.exe resides. I seem to be hearing that VLC is SUPPOSED to execute these commands in a separate window. Is that correct? Is there any way to have them execute...

Thanks for the info. I call it a "command prompt window", because it behaves like one. It has the same context menu that command windows have, when you right-click on the title bar. And you are able to type commands, the same as when you open a window using "vlc --intf rc". If yo...

I reset preferences. I still have the same behavior.
I never even changed any preferences since I first installed VLC.
Is it SUPPOSED to open a second command window to run the command?

Would someone please tell me if you have this same behavior on Windows 8? It would help a lot to know if this is my problem or a VLC bug.

I do not have the problems that you have. I have Windows 8.1 on a desktop system that I built around a Gigabyte motherboard and using the onboard video hardware. I downloaded most of my WMV files from the Microsoft Chanel9 site. The following is the MediaInfo output for one of these files: General C...

I feel that I must be doing something obviously wrong, because I can't believe the ability to run VLC on the command line on Windows is this broken. I will describe better what I am doing: I open a Command Prompt window by choosing "Command Prompt" from the Windows 8 desktop Power User's m...

I am a newbie who just installed the 2.1.2 version a week ago. I have not made any configuration changes. I have windows 8. If I open a command prompt window and run VLC, it always opens a second command prompt window to run the command. The command runs in that window and when the command completes...

Bat999, thanks again! Those commands work just as you have them. It would be nice to have a single step but doing it in two steps is fine.

Edited Correction: I lose all the ID3 tags by converting to WAV in the two steps, so I do need to find out how to go from WMV to MP3 in one step.

Thanks a lot, bat999! Your last two commands worked perfectly (to convert to OGG and to extract the WMA). But the one to convert directly to MP3 did not work. I got the message box "Ooops VLC media player has crashed ...." I can convert the OGG file directly to MP3 with no problem, using t...

I realize now that the command I was using is only for converting an audio file to another audio format. I found the wiki page on extracting the audio from a video file. I tried this command to just extract the audio, but still with no success: vlc "f:\tmp\x.wmv" --no-sout-video --sout-aud...

I'm tying to use the following command to convert a WMV video to MP3 audio file and it is failing: vlc -I dummy "f:\tmp\x.wmv" --sout=#transcode{acodec=mp3,vcodec=dummy}:standard{access=file,mux=raw,dst="F:\tmp\x.mp3"} I found this command online and did not build it myself. It w...