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"C:\Program Files\VideoLan\vlc\vlc.exe" %1 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=8192,deinterlace,audio-sync,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ps,dst="f:\%~n1.dvd.mpg"}} :sout-transcode-width=720 :sout-transcode-height=480 :aspect-ratio='16:9' :sout-deint...

.bat and .cmd are synonyms in Windows now, they mean the same thing to the Windows cmd processor. Microsoft created the cmd extension because it's clearer that they will be run by cmd.exe than bat, which mostly had meaning to IBM mainframe programmers. If you've created the ConvertToDvd.cmd file on ...

I updated VlcUserControl.cs on the wiki with some attributes that make the control better at being dropped on forms. It was trying to write to Vlc while in Design mode which wasn't good.

Don't open vlc, ConvertToDvd.cmd will do that for you. Just drop the video file onto the ConvertToDvd.cmd icon which is on your desktop.

Do a Raw save using the GUI (not wizard) for 1 minute then manually stop it. How big is the file? That'll give you a good judgment on the real input bitrate.

Vlc just doesn't handle re-directing urls well.

Here's the .cmd file I use to convert anything to a DVD-ready mpeg file: @echo on "C:\Program Files\VideoLan\vlc\vlc.exe" %1 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vb=8192,deinterlace,audio-sync,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ps,dst="f:\%~n1.dvd.mpg"}} :so...

type "vlc xyz.mp3 vlc:quit" all on one line

libvlc.dll and the plugins directory need to be in bin/Debug (or bin/Release if you're running a release build). Putting them in the directory with the source files doesn't work. I'll look at the problem with the Volume property. It probably should be disabled in Design mode, that is, made not Brows...

Note: The .Net_Test.html file loads a file from my local hard-disk named Kiki.mpg as its sample. This obviously won't work for anyone but me so be sure to edit it before trying. Just change the filename to a short video of your own. I just updated the .Net Wiki Page with a new VlcUserControl.cs file...

Sure sounds like a video driver and/or directx driver problem on your laptop. Is it possible to update these?

CaptainIglo, just be sure to get all the latest files (except the .snk file, you don't need to sign or register the dll if you're calling it from C#) and create the VLanControl.dll. Then create a new Windows Application project, reference VLanControl, and drop a VlcUserControl onto your main form. O...

Did you turn on the FreeType2 font renderer in Video/SubtitlesOSD Preferences and play with the Text renderer options?

I wrote a C# UserControl that wraps VLC, you might give it a try: http://wiki.videolan.org/.Net_Interface_to_VLC It also supports use as an ActiveX control but you don't need to do that from a C# program: it will work with no registration as long as you have the libvlc.dll and plugins directory from...

I updated the files and text in the Wiki. Notably the control can now be used as a replacement for the VLC ActiveX control. A sample html file is provided.

Do you actually have 0.8.5 installed to compare with? Or did it play fine in 0.8.5 and then you installed 0.8.6 and it doesn't play well. Because this could be a problem with Windows and your DVD drive being changed to PIO mode instead of UDMA because of something that happened recently. http://winh...

http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm

contains information about this problem (Windows reverting to PIO mode from DMA).

You might just be able to fix spdif by changing your audio output module to Win32 waveout extension output. Other people have found that Directx audio and spdif don't mix.

Open VLC. Menu File/Open file... Browse to your video file. Check Use a subtitles file, Browse to your subtitle file. Check Stream/Save. Click Settings... Check File, Browse to the directory you want to save the new file in and type in the new file name. Encapsulation Method = MP4 Check Video codec:...

I was able to reproduce this problem but it didn't have anything to do with h.264. If the video native dimensions are greater than the screen dimensions on the 2nd monitor, meaning VLC needs to scale down the video to make it fit, the video will fail to start. I'm pretty sure the problem exists in t...

Go to Control Panel, open System. Go to the Hardware tab, open Device Manager. Open the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers section of the list and look for a name that ends in "Parallel ATA Controller". Right-click and bring up the Properties dialog for this controller. There should be Primary Chan...

rlomik, have you tried setting the VlcInstallDir property of the NativeLibVlc object to the directory where the 0.8.6 libvlc.dll and plugins are before Initialize()? This is the 1 small section of the code that I've left unchanged from osmanosman's original. I should probably just stop checking the ...

The long version of VLC_help's comment is that instead of transcoding the DVD track to an mpg file, which requires extra codecs to play in Windows Media Player, try transcoding it to an asf file: pick ASF Encapsulation, WMV2 Video Codec and mp3 Audio codec. I'd use 2048 kb/s on the video to achieve ...

I think you mean the progress bar, not scroll bar.

The progress bar probably just needs a little more room on the screen to show. Can you drag the bottom of the VLC window down a little?

Just to be clear: you're asking on the VLC forum why video plays well on VLC after a re-install but poorly in Windows Media Player?