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I figured it out, the verbose output goes to /var/log/syslog while /var/log/messages only shows errors.

Have you figured out the reason for this? I have the same problem but even HD doesn't work. I suspect it's something to do with the HEVC decoder. This looks like the problem but I don't know why it only happens when running via systemd Pool size: (3+3) * 4177920 Failed to preallocate decoder pool (3...

When running as a systemd service, it looks like the journal receives all messages, regardless of any VLC command-line options. That's fine because you can filter the journal for different log levels like journalctl -u vlc -p warning . This works great! My question is about running without systemd f...

I found the --list-verbose option today. It looks like most of these have different capabilities, but I'm still not sure how to specify one. For example mmal_codec is both decoder, converter, blending (120), and blending (110). I'm not sure what the numbers mean here. One of the mmal_vout entries sh...

If I look at the list of modules with vlc -l there are lots of duplicates. In most cases the descriptions are different. How do I specify the right one in the command-line? For example there are two different modules called mmal_vout. I try to get help with vlc -p mmal_vout --advanced --help-verbose...

I want to run VLC as a systemd service so I am testing various command-line options. I'm confused about how to control the log verbosity. Running in foreground with vlc --daemon --syslog writes errors to /var/log/messages. But adding --syslog-daemon doesn't make any difference. Is it supposed to? Ho...

I made a typo before, I meant to say this track has 8 channels. I actually see those same lines too. I just didn't include the full verbose output before. Here it is: https://pastebin.com/raw/BzaimM7u Here are some selected lines that seem relevant. Maybe the message about 7 channels and 24000Hz lin...

I started trying to compile this but it fails with these errors. Can anyone help with this? I'm using the source code from `apt-get source vlc` on Raspbian Buster. /usr/bin/ld: /home/pi/source/vlc-buster/vlc-3.0.11/src/.libs/libvlccore.a(libvlc-module.o):(.rodata+0x204): multiple definition of `vlc_...

I'd like to build VLC from source in a portable way so I can easily try different versions on the same system. I tried `--enable-static --disable-shared` and it says error: VLC is based on plugins. Shared libraries cannot be disabled. From online research it sounds like flag was never actually imple...

I am trying to play and HEVC video with AAC-HE audio. The audio is a single track with 7 channels at 48KHz, but VLC identifies it as 24KHz in the log. Or am I interpreting this output wrong? [b1f74270] mpeg4audio packetizer: AAC channels: 7 samplerate: 24000 The playback sounds sort of crackly on th...

I downloaded a nightly build and it won't run because it can't find the libraries. % ./bin/vlc dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libvlc.dylib Referenced from: /Users/elliott/Downloads/vlc-macos-sdk-4.0.0-dev-70dc21e2/./bin/vlc Reason: image not found zsh: abort ./bin/vlc With otool I see the @rpath u...

MJPEG is not an option here, since I want this to work over the internet and have good 720p quality in 1Mbps. I'm using 30fps, do you really think higher than that will help? I will experiment to see if picamera can adjust the I-frames, but there is another app which can play this stream perfectly w...

I'm trying to play an H.264 elementary stream from a Raspberry Pi. It works ok with VLC, but I'm trying to reduce the latency. I've set network caching to 0ms. Are there any other relevant settings? The weird thing is, sometimes it has about 1200ms latency, and other times it's about 4000ms, and not...