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To whoever may be interested : to hard-dub a movie file, get the moviefile.avi (or another video format) and the corresponding subtitles file moviefile.srt in the same folder, use ffmpegX (with extra installs), check the filters pane to enable subtitling and proceed.

... when I get a mac (which...might not be too far in the future...)

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I'm not sure about the record button being absent (it's there for me) http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/2686/how-to-copy-a-dvd-with-vlc-1.0/ These are snapshots from windows interface, I run a Mac and it looks quite different. if you can get it working right (playing right) in the GUI, you should be a...

theoretically if you instruct it to play subtitles, transcode, and save to file, it "might should" work Practically, if I could do it myself without help I would not ask. How do I "instruct" VLC do blend subtitles into the saved file ? Another option is the "record" bu...

Many thanks for this fast reply! What I would like is re-record the file so that the subtitles become part of the movie, not a separate file, and I can then change the whole into a home dvd unit (or Sony PS3) readable disk. I suppose some command-line transcode operation would do this blending, the ...

Hi! I have a video file myvideo.avi I have a subtitles file myvideo.srt just besides I want to "paste" the subtitles on the video and get one "hardcoded" subtitled file. Could you please write me a sout #transcode line that will do the job ? I am so lost in command lines... Thank...

Hello! I would like to assign a picture to a movie file "preview". More precisely, i have some movies in .avi files, and I screen-captured the corresponding synopsis on internet movies sites. It would be nice to view this resumé simply by displaying the avi file in the Finder Coverflow win...

Hello! I made an application driving VLC to capture video streams to files (using command lines, on Macintosh). This works fine, the resulting files are ok. But when I double-click the file (my application being closed, has nothing to do with this) , launching an instance of VLC to read the file, th...

I made an app that sends command-line orders to VLC, asking for recording rtsp streams to disk. The syntax I use is something like this : ~VLC 'rtsp://theserveraddress/thestreamurl' --sout '#standard{mux=ts,access=file,dst=/Users/me/Movies/MyRecordFileName.ts}' This used to work fine for years with ...

New release of DentiFreeX, a free front-end Mac OSX application driving VLC to view, record and transcode videos on the Net through Free network (french ADSL provider).

Monday June 23 : version 0.9.8 is available at http://dentifreex.free.fr/

Hi! When I open a file with verbose=2, I can read from the result the data I need, for example : [00000347] main video output debug: window size: 768x576 For a resizing utility I am building, I would like to detect video size of a file without displaying anything, so I can set parameters for the tra...

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Could you indicate a software to read the region of a DVD drive ?
Maybe VLC can extract this info ?
Is it possible to "edit" this parameter ?

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its command line syntax somewhat bewildering.

For sure!
(just passing by...)

Certainly not! Could you be a bit more precise : -vvv or -V defines the output stream for VLC -v 0|1|2 defines the verbosity level, which has nothing to do with VLC output This meaning I can put both -vvv and -v in one line, giving two different orders to VLC, without confusion ? Why not -vout ? Thi...

Do a 'vlc--longhelp --advanced > ~/vlchelp.txt' to save all this to a text file for perusal on days with nothing better to do.

I see what you think...

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Hello!

VLC is nice in giving numerous options and syntax rules, but it is not clear what they do.
Can somebody explain the differences in the various expressions one can use on a command line :
-v
-vvv
-vout
--vout
--vvv
and other combinations...

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After several essays, it seems VLC uses the stop-time item but not the start-time one. I think I have read this somewhere else... Is this a known bug, and is there a solution ?

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Start and stop-time could be embedded in the sout command, but preferably, just move them to the end of your command-line So VLC accepts different syntaxes, but what are the different effects one can expect ? Could you post different rightful variants of this command, embedded and not embedded, but...

Thanks! Can you explain the subtleties between the syntax variants : --start-time 164, --start-time=164, --start-time="164", the help pages are sometimes difficult to understand... I try to do the extraction from an application I am writing, it sends command lines to VLC, as following : /A...

Thanks for yur help! you should read http://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_command-line_help I do read it, but it is quite elliptic... vlc.exe --start-time 1200 --stop-time 1260 input.avi vlc:quit OK, but sometimes the syntax seams to be --start-time 1200, sometimes --start-time=1200, and sometimes --start-t...

try --start-time and --stop-time. Times are in seconds

Hello!

Would you post a full example command line, as correct syntax in VLC is always a mystery for me ?

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Use the wizard or do something like this at the command line: vlc "FILENAME" --start-time=SECONDS --stop-time=SECONDS --sout='#std{access=file,mux=AVI,url="NEW_FILENAME"}' Hello! Wanting to crop a mpeg file, I found this example, thanks to you all VLCpeople. Trying this, I use a...

View, Stream and Media Info... Advanced Information tab.

In the user interface, ok, but within my app, using command lines and parsing the result ?

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i have tried using ffmpeg with a -i and the file name without an output file.. that prints good info to console ( stnd out)??? - but I cannot seem to snag anything I can ...parse. I want to get these informations from VLC in a command line. How can I address the ffmpeg-within-vlc to try this -i com...