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Is it possible to view an already open VLC player statistics without opening a GUI. Example VLC is playing and I open a terminal to view the statistics of that play VLC player on the command line.

Your response is incorrect.

I found that on a newly installed version of VLC on Debian 12 when I removed VLC using the sudo apt remove VLC is completely removed. This means a modification on Debian 12 occurred that prevented VLC from uninstalling. I manually removed VLC to correct.

When I try to uninstall VLC from Debian 12 using sudo apt purge vlc it appears to execute but does not remove all components a search show /usr/bin/VLC still present. I manually removed all components of VLC and tried to reinstall using sudo apt install VLC and I get the message "vlc is already...

Do you have a site to direct me to to read?

You stated "by their own admission in their changelog"

I cannot see any evidence that VLC has not disabled VA-API.

Debian's documentation under 5.2.3
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ ... on.en.html

According to Debian's documentation, "Because FFmpeg was upgraded to the 5.x branch, VLC's VA-API support has been disabled"

Is it true that VLC has disabled VA-API ?

Debian uses full GPU usage.

How does VLC determine what GPU protocol it is using since it is set to auto be defualt?

When I go to to tools/preferences/input/codec under hardware-accelerated-decoding there is no option for "VA-API:" even though it is set to auto by default making me think VLC is not using my Intel GPU.
Can I determine if VLC 3.0.20 is using my Intel GPU?

While using Linux vlc 3.0.20 will record several hours of video in mp4 format using network stream convert. But when vlc is asked to playback the video after a hour of playback the video becomes scattered grey. When I play the video back using another video player it plays the entire video back with...

I have performed a SHA256 on the file located in /usr/bin/vlc and got 2 different answers for 2 different Linux distros.
sha256 vlc
Debian
847cf2ed20c411cb8f196af86847fd9d36fcf0e164263c1ff28c6da0447c52ab
solus
6a73a299aacca0ea48fe08bbcdaf23137b7ef668c8a187bd57ae35aaa04b3f86

I found a youtube video which seems to display a successful display of the time on VLC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PkIfrQBOAk

However following the exact method it did not work on my Linux Debian machine. Is there a specific OS this works on?

I ave a similar problem and this occurs on 2 different Debian systems mxlinux and Debian.

When I issue a command line on Debian 12 to transcode and display a IP camera on one camera 3/4 is blacked out and on another 1/5 at the bottom. since both cameras operate the same this suggest manipulation on the video stream. The video is a stream and the cLI is below. vlc https://192.168.x.x --so...

While using VLC 3.0.20 with mx-linx and Debian if I transcode, save video to a file and have a live display of the video on the screen it does not work using the VLC GUI. But if i use the command line i can trancode and see the video.

Is the linux machine changing the displayed GUI in some matter ?

I agree. VLC should provide a official flathub version or a complete direct download package.

I am using VLC 3.0.20 on mxlinux and when I follow the WIKI on playing text over video, https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/marq/ The video plays but there is no text. VLC reports "main decoder error: Could not convert timestamp 676146239824 for FFmpeg" I was playing a .mp4 fil...

Give an example of a https site that works ?

It appears that VLC on Linux possible all version has now prevented playing https videos. A post demonstrates that it was possible to play https videos from Youtube but it no longer works on 3.0.1.8. See below.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/7-top-sec ... player-si/

When I install VLC from flathub the effect & filter work. Why?

Unfortunately the VLC version on flathub is not official as it has no check mark next to the VLC application icon.

Why are the dependencies different ? both are Debian based

When I look at dependancies for VLC there is a difference between the 2 even though they are both based on Debian. What are the expect dependencies and recent version for Debian as of Oct-2023 ? Mxlinux vlc Depends: vlc-bin (= 3.0.18-0+deb11u1) Depends: vlc-plugin-base (= 3.0.18-0+deb11u1) Depends: ...

I did this test on virtual machine and physical workstation with the same hardware and the results where mxlinux effect & filters work but not on Debian 12.

Is turning off hardware decoding a VLC parameter ? if so where ?

I am using VLC 3.0.18 on Debian 12 using kernel 6.10.0.12 and I have found that no matter what the settings are for Effects and filters the video does not respond to the sttings. It appears that downloading from Debians repository is changing the file operation since when I install from Mx-linux VLC...

What is phonon4qt5-backend-vlc and what is it used ?

When I install from mx-linux distro the same version 3.0.18 it works. But it does not work when I install using flatpak from flathub.