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I know this is not directly related to VLC stream-output but I'm trying to implement a m3u8 server and was wondering if there is any way to get to vlc the name of the current track (in playback). I tried #EXTINF:10,Test Name1 - name2.mp3 but "Test Name1 - name2.mp3" is never displayed. Is ...

All I'm saying is that this is not the VLC released by VideoLAN.org, so I don't know the details how yours behave.

From what I read in the rpi forums - they did customize vlc so I suspect Remi is right.

It is a limitation of video filters, as opposed to overlays. If you don't care, you can use the logo overlay. No, I definitely don't care - so I guess I should be using sub-filter logo? I had not realized these were different. I tried cvlc -v --random --loop --sub-filter logo --logo-file weather.jp...

You need to disable hardware decoding acceleration.

Thanks - but that's too bad - is that a limitation on the RPi version (MMAL renderer?) or VLC in general? The text overlay works perfectly with hardware acceleration though.

I'm trying to overlay a logo in vlc on my RPi (Bullseye) but when I add the logo using: cvlc -v --random --loop --fullscreen $xid --video-filter "logo{file=weather.jpg,position=1}" playlist.xspf I get these weird error messages. From what I understand the hardware decoding in vlc is a hack...