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Is it possible to place subtitles *under* the video? Right now, VLC shows subtitles at the bottom of the video. I would like it to place the subtitles on the black part of the screen below the video (of course, if the video is in a format where you have some black screen above/below the video). In m...

Is playing from a playlist broken in the current svn snapshot? When I place any item on a playlist, and want to play it with VLC, it is not opened. It seems broken both with m3u and xspf playlists. The playlist is parsed just fine, but then, it is not played: [00000284] main playlist debug: need to ...

Could you start your vlc from console with -v or -vv switches?

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I just compiled a 22566 svn snapshot of VLC 0.9. It plays static files, http and mms streams just fine, but I'm unable to play rtsp streams. This is what I get in the console: # vlc -v rtsp://192.168.1.142/live.sdp VLC media player 0.9.0-svn Grishenko [00000001] main libvlc debug: VLC media player -...

I have a VLC that streams videos.

Is it possible to log who connected (IP address), and the amount of data that was transferred?

I'm thinking of something similar to the log of for example Apache, Squid etc.

I connect VLC (svn version) to several network cameras, defined in a playlist file. Sometimes, a single camera is not reachable for some reason, and everything breaks - VLC waits for ages to connect to a camera that isn't there. I noticed there is a "--ipv4-timeout" option, but it doesn't ...

vlc -I dummy --run-time 5 http://address:port vlc:quit --sout "#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="/tmp/check-http.avi"}}" Did you test: vlc -I dummy --run-time 5 http://address:port --sout "#duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=ts,dst="/tmp/check-http.avi"}}&...

Hmm, "--sout-all vlc:quit" sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I think you only need to add "vlc:quit" (without the "--sout-all") but as last option of the command line. Then it should always work. --sout-all is something else, indeed, and doesn't take any arguments. S...

I noticed that if I add "--sout-all vlc:quit", vlc quits like I wanted. And this option seems to be in 0.8.6c. Hmm, "--sout-all vlc:quit" sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I would still appreciate that "close" option in the nightly build - I looked through "vlc ...

You could try a nightly build, it has the option to close VLC after everything in the playlist has finished.

And what option is that? I use the svn version already.

I noticed that if I add "--sout-all vlc:quit", vlc quits like I wanted.
And this option seems to be in 0.8.6c.

Is it possible to exit VLC when the file/stream it plays come to an end?

I would like to script vlc, but right now, after the file/stream ends, vlc doesn't exit; it just closes the interface.

Looks like I missed libdvb...

I've built vlc 0.9.0 (svn) on one machine, it works fine. Now, I'm trying to build it on yet another machine, running on ARM hardware (Debian). Apparently, something is missing, as I can't build it with "ts" mux. Any missing libraries? How can I make sure "ts" mux is built with v...

All players, like Windows Media Player or mplayer expect a MMS stream to be in form: mms://server:1755 VLC expects additional "h" at the end: mmsh://server:1755 As a result, no other player besides VLC can play such stream: "mmsh://server:1755". VLC won't play this link: mms://se...

Yup, doesn't make much sense to me.

Looks like some kind of a bug to me, though

All right, this is what I found out: This camera streams using UDP, and has a link: rtsp://192.168.111.188/live.sdp When I open this stream directly in VLC, and transcode it there, the video is very pixelized. However, when I use another VLC as a "proxy" (no transcoding), picture is OK: rt...

DIV3 also works (and it's better than wmv1/2 in my opinion). Indeed, DIV3 seems to work, thanks for the tip. I made some tests, and the issue is not 0.9.0 or WMV2 specific. With 0.8.6c on Windows, I can see exactly the same behaviour. To reproduce: - open any MPEG4 stream or movie - Stream/Save -> ...

Hum, I really don't know what that's due to. (btw, why are you using wmv2?) The stream from cameras will be placed on a website. AFAIK, WMV1 or WMV2 are the only codecs which work with Windows Media Player (that is, not requiring the user to install any 3rd party codecs or tools). Of course, I'd li...

This is the line I use to start VLC: vlc --sout-keep -I dummy --run-time 60 -L playlist.xspf --sout "#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=512,scale=1}:gather:std{access=mmsh,dst=:1755,mux=ts}" Increasing bitrate (vb) doesn't change anything at all. And these are the sources (MPEG and MJPEG) on the pl...

You'll at least need --enable-pp --enable-gpl to get ffmpeg to link with VLC. It linked for me without --enable-pp --enable-gpl flags. So, I compiled ffmpeg: ./configure --disable-swscaler --enable-pp --enable-gpl And VLC: ./configure --with-ffmpeg-tree=/home/build/vlc/ffmpeg --enable-live555 --wit...

It won't make any difference (switcher is some fancy stream output plugin which only one person knows how to use ... and what it's used for). The problem might be with the ffmpeg version you compiled. Or maybe with the configure flags you used in ffmpeg (if you didn't already try, try compiling ffm...

you can run vlc --list on both versions and compare the output to know if something's missing in 0.9.0. I did vlc --list | grep -i mpe | sort for both players, and then, diffed the output: $ diff -u 0.8 0.9 --- 0.8 2007-07-25 11:33:29.075704057 +0200 +++ 0.9 2007-07-25 11:33:32.575170231 +0200 @@ -...

I'm trying to transcode mpeg video delivered by a Vivotek IP7137 camera to WMV1 or WMV2. When I transcode the stream using 0.8.6c, the quality is good. When I transcode the stream using the same options and 0.9.0 (svn), the quality is very poor - biiig pixels. This only seem to affect MPEG and 0.9.0...

How to setup VLC for CBR ? I'm doing streaming to a mobile device over GPRS. I'm encoding a webcam to a live stream with mp4v , the quality i get is very poor. I'm using VLC 0.8.1 and Streaming server DSS (5.0.3). How to increase bit rate ? I have set the trancoding bit rate at 16Kb/s but i only re...

Some more info - on 0.8.6c and 0.9.0 (svn), I get this: $ vlc -l|grep -i rts VLC media player 0.9.0-svn Grishenko vod_rtsp RTSP VoD server $ vlc -l|grep -i rts VLC media player 0.8.6c Janus live555 RTP/RTSP/SDP demuxer (benutzt Live555) live555 RTSP/RTP Zugriff und Demux vod_rtsp RTSP VoD Server And...