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I want to run VLC as a systemd service so I am testing various command-line options. I'm confused about how to control the log verbosity.
Running in foreground with vlc --daemon --syslog writes errors to /var/log/messages. But adding --syslog-daemon doesn't make any difference. Is it supposed to? How can I increase verbosity here?

With journalctl I do see the verbose messages even without --syslog-debug. Where is that controlled? I'm trying to debug an issue that only happens when running as a service, so wanted to replicate the same commands as much as possible. So I need to see verbose output somewhere when I run, e.g. sudo -u vlcd vlc --daemon --syslog in the terminal. I'm using VLC 3.0.11 on Raspbian by the way.

VLC fills in the message priority as normal, so it should be possible to filter (out) debug messages based on that in Journal. I am not that familiar with the Journal CLI though.

When running as a systemd service, it looks like the journal receives all messages, regardless of any VLC command-line options. That's fine because you can filter the journal for different log levels like journalctl -u vlc -p warning. This works great!

My question is about running without systemd for debugging. This way I am only getting error level messages in syslog. I'm trying to figure out how to increase verbosity here.

I figured it out, the verbose output goes to /var/log/syslog while /var/log/messages only shows errors.