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What OS do you use and what version of VLC? I have Windows 10 and VLC 3.0.11. [The question is mostly just curiosity about why your experience is different from the rest of the people who have posted on this thread - I don't have easy access to a different OS, and I assume older versions of VLC are ...

Are you saying that the MacOS and Linux versions of VLC use relative paths while the Windows version uses absolute paths? That seems weird.

It's more comfortable if you are not going to move your songs But what if you ARE going to move your songs? Starting next week (continuing for several weeks or even a few months), I will need to give a playlist and its videos (or at least one of the videos) to a non-techie person every week via Dro...

There was no answer in years because I (the OP) said, "Never mind," because I discovered that the non-VLC aspects of my project were untenable (transmitting the signal the necessary distance). I ended up using walkie-talkies, but even that solution had difficulties As for your problem, per...

I decided to work on the other possible solutions before resuming trying to get VLC to work. But after trying several signal-boosting devices and even homemade reflectors (my husband got his master's degree in electromagnetics and designed a satellite antenna system for his thesis, so although that ...

Open Tools -> Messages... (set Verbosity to 2) before you start streaming (so press stop and play if you have), it will show errors and warning. As I have said in a couple previous posts, the client (the one I especially want to capture for you) is not doing that - I have had verbosity set to 2 for...

Well, I got "url=224..." syntax from the documentation page I cited in my previous post - maybe that page needs an edit. Anyway, I changed it to "dst=" and put the port inside it instead of separate, like you suggested, but there was no change. I know that the experts on the foru...

Thanks. If I already have all the codecs, then when I attempted MPEG1 I had done something else wrong, and for MPEG4 and WMV2 my stream of warnings about buffer overflows or not reading the header of each frame must also be my fault somehow. But I'm using examples from the Wiki as best I can. One of...

Additional information: I decided to look closer at my codec situation - I haven't gotten any better results, but I thought I should share my attempts in case they are helpful. I originally thought that in Windows I would get the strongest support for WMV as a codec, but upon further inspection on t...

Okay, I gave up on using the Windows GUI - I just can't find the settings I need. So I'm working on the command line, and have found a lot more examples online, but my results are quite weird. Here is what I am currently using on the server: D:\Programs\VLC\vlc.exe -vvv -I rc --ttl 12 dshow:// vdev=...

Never mind - I cracked the code. After having set the language in the program to English previously, I had installed a newer version, and after that, had not gone back into the GUI and set the language again before starting to work with the command line stuff and requesting the doc file contents. Ju...

I figured out that vlc-help.txt is dynamic - it was filled with info after I typed "vlc --help" on the command line. So what I would like, if someone with a truly English installation would do me this favor, is to type "vlc --longhelp" (I think that's the one with the most info -...

I think the installation script detects the language of my OS and decided that since I have Japanese Windows, surely I also want VLC in Japanese (not!). I read here somewhere that there is only one program file and it contains all the languages, but even though I select English when I install, not o...

Thanks for replying. Streaming wizard only exists in VLC 0.8.6 and older. Ah, that explains why the rest of the help tutorial about streaming also doesn't look anything like my interface - it is probably also for an old version... So, which protocol would you recommend using in my case? I'm not sure...

I hate being the ignorant newbie, but the help pages and tutorials I find don't seem to match my interface, and searching the forums has not turned up enough clues. I am experienced with video/audio concepts and normal computer networking, but I am brand new to streaming and to VLC in general. I'm t...