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On 3.0.20, and in previous versions too, it seems that when certain audio files are at the top of my podcast playlist, all playlist rows become enormous. I'd always noticed that it happened every so often, and deleting one of the files reverted the row size back to normal, but I'd never found a repr...

My problem is somewhat related, but maybe not identical. I have a laptop and a desktop connected to the same monitor via a KVM switch. The large monitor has a lower scaling number in Windows than the laptop screen, for obvious reasons. When I switch to the desktop with VLC open, the laptop defaults ...

As a postscript to this, there's a utility called SoundVolumeView which allows you to mute or unmute a process using the process ID or process name. This is perfect for launching VLC from the command line.

Yes, that's the New Topic button. However, the topic already existed, and was created by me.

You can use Process Monitor to see which registry entry is being modified to store the mute setting. Alternatively, try exporting the whole PropertyStore key before and after muting and do a file compare to see what changed.

I've found a kludgy fix for this:

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 32#p516632

I'm not sure what that means. I've discovered where the mute setting is being stored, at least in my case, and it seems to be at the Windows level. It's in the registry at this setting: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\Audio\PolicyConfig\PropertyStore\699e4275_0\{2...

Ideally, there should be an "--unmute" command-line option, but none exists as far as I can see.

Anyone?
As it stands, if you mute any instance of VLC and close it, all subsequent executions will be muted unless manually unmuted. A --not-mute option would be really handy.

If it doesn't exist, I may have a go adding it myself.

I've searched pretty thoroughly and it seems clear that there isn't a command-line option to mute or unmute VLC. This would be handy for those cases where you mute the sound and close VLC, forgetting to unmute it. I have VLC come on in the morning as an alarm, and the other day I'd left it muted. Th...

Still not working in 3.0.8.

Correction: m3u file should be UTF8 format $sPlaylistPath = 'E:\Documents\Music\Playlist.m3u' $sMusicRoot = "D:\Music\" $sMusicTypesSpec = "*.mp3", "*.wma" # Generate UTF8 playlist $sExcludeSpec = ($sMusicRoot + "Folder1\Classical\*") Get-ChildItem -Path ($sMu...

But might it not make sense to interpret the command line options mmdevice-volume as implicitly overriding this default? And why doesn't aout=mmdevice switch the audio output to mmdevice when volume-save is commented or set to 1?

Hi, After many hours of trying and failing to set the audio output (aout) to "mmdevice", and to fix the volume with "mmdevice-volume" via the command line (in VLC 3.0.8 Vetinari, Windows 10), I discovered how to get it to work. If the setting "volume-save" in vlcrc is c...

Here is the Powershell version. The contents of the "Classical" subfolder is filtered out of the first folder. $sPlaylistPath = 'E:\Documents\Music\Playlist.m3u' $sMusicRoot = "D:\Music\" $sMusicTypesSpec = "*.mp3", "*.wma" # Generate Unicode playlist $sExclud...

Another option is to create a batch file that generates the playlist from the folders. Example batch file: @echo off dir "c:\Folder1\*.mp3" /s /b /a-d > "E:\Documents\Music\Playlist.m3u" dir "c:\Folder2\*.mp3" /s /b /a-d >> "E:\Documents\Music\Playlist.m3u" di...