VLC Controll with terminal

[Gentoo-Kid]

Hallo, my question is:
Is there a possibillity, to controll things like color-management, brightness, gamma in vlc with terminal?
I want vlc to start with a specific color-configuration and i want install him without a gui .

Thanks

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Yes. You need to set the video adjust filter and corresponding parameters from the command line. See the command line help for reference.

[Gentoo-Kid]

I don't know how to work with the parameters --XXX

vlc --brightness <2.0> /mnt/cdrom for example doesn't work. Wthout --brightness <2.0> the DVD is played.

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Image properties filter Module name: adjust --contrast <float> Image contrast in the 0-2 range. --brightness <float> Image brightness in the 0-2 range. --hue <integer> Image hue in the 0-360 range. --saturation <float> Image saturation in the 0-3 range. -gamma <float> Image gamma in the 0-10 range.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You need to load the adjust module

[Gentoo-Kid]

vlc --access adjust -gamma 2.0 /path to dvd

doesen't work.

Can you write me the complete line i have to use?
It is my first time i use vlc.

Thank you

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

it is a video filter, not an access

[rsduhamel]

I hope you guys realize how unhelpful you are. I finally hacked it out. Add the following to your shortcut target:

• --video-filter=adjust

This enables the filter. Now add (for example):

• --contrast=1 --brightness=1 --hue=180 --saturation=2 --gamma=1

The numbers are floating-point decimal numbers, e.g. "1.002". The available ranges are as follows:

• contrast 0-2
  brightness 0-2
  hue 0-360
  saturation 0-3
  gamma 0-10

I haven't tried this in Linux but I believe that you leave the equal sign out there. Hope this saves someone the couple of hours of headaches it took me to ferret this out.

[Lucas Malor]

Thank you, I was searching exactly this. I must say the VLC help is not very clear about this.

[rob96id]

Thanks rsduhamel! Exactly what I was looking for!