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I just installed ubuntu on a friends PC and set him up with VLC and downloaded all the gstreamer codecs just in case. He is trying to play some Divx/Xvid files and they are just showing black screens with audio playing, but sometimes if he puts them in full screen they'll play or if he moves the win...

I found a batch script that someone created for converting videos to WMV using vlc. The batch script was used on a windows box but I am trying to run almost the exact same command and my videos are coming out with no audio. I believe this has to do with using the wma codec which is closed source, bu...

I was wondering if there is a way to alter the group/permissions of newly encoded files from the command line arguments of VLC. My files keep outputting as -rw-r--r-- and I'd like them to just be -rw-rw-rw-. Is this possible? Also is there a way to retrieve the expected new file size from vlc? I am ...