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Play analogue video from audio in
I have an adapter with AV input on one end and a 3.5 mm jack on the other.
Is it possible to plug the 3.5 mm jack into audio in and view the AV signal going in?
I've been trying to use the Analogue ...
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VLC: Split Video onto Two Displays with Command
I need to display a video on two screens with VLC by command, in a non-manual way on my Raspberry PI.
The two screens are each connected by a HDMI cable. The video files have the 3840 * 1080 ...
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Achieving Precise 10-Minute Shutdowns for VLC Player
I need VLC player to shut down every 10 minutes, so I used this command: vlc -I {camAddress} --run-time=600 vlc://quit. However, it's not shutting down exactly after 10 minutes. I suspect this is ...
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Why does FFmpeg encoding stall on Ubuntu with DVD video file?
I've encountered a challenging issue while using FFmpeg on Ubuntu to encode a DVD video file contained in a .bin format. Despite various attempts (also employing vlc or bounting converted .iso), ...
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MPEGTS across devices has choppy audio
I want to stream video and its audio between devices. On my pc I am transmitting it using
ffmpeg -re -i "video.mp4" -vcodec libx264 -f mpegts udp://192.168.1.106:1234?pkt_size=1316
And on ...
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How to put thumbnail on the video?
Does someone knows how to put thumbnail on the video? I have local files on my windows' laptop, but there are no thumbnails on it, so someone knows how to put thumbnails on it?
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How can I play multiple videos in VLC with a specified delay between them?
I've just read the VLC-based answer to this question:
How to play multiple videos side-by-side synchronized?
... and it works for me. However, I now want to play one of the videos at a delay. How can ...
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Why did `exiftool -rotation=0 input.mov` rotate my video?
I have an input.mov video file recorded by an iPhone 12 mini. I copied the video to my Windows 10 laptop. When I open the on video on my Windows 10 laptop with VLC, the video plays in portrait mode. I ...
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Loading chapter data in VLC from external file for any video format
I have a number of video files (in various formats: mp4, webm, mkv, etc.) and I'd like to add chapter information to them (similar to how Youtube shows links into parts of videos).
I'm not terribly ...
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VLC media player installation on RHEL 9
Please help me to install VLC media player on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. I tried these installation steps, but they failed.
I tried to skip few packages during the installation too, but I could not ...
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Combing multiple videos and audio tracks for playback in VLC
I have multiple videos (about 5-10 minutes each) that I need to play together during a long presentation with an audio track (multiple files) over it. I created the separate videos for ease of editing ...
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Poor Quality from USB Video Device on VLC
I am having trouble using VLC to use my USB Capture Card as it is outputting porr quality. The quality is blurry or pixilated. I have looked around on many forums and videos to see if they can help ...
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How to override ffmpeg video duration with a malformed file?
My security camera recorder produced a H.264 MP4 video file that appears to be malformed as it reports an incorrect video duration. Using ffmpeg and following this answer I get the same result of 38 ...
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Open a video from Synology File Station directly in VLC
I have a Synology NAS, with some videos stored on it.
At home I can access the video using SMB shares, and open them with VLC as if they were on a local disk
from the internet on a mobile device, I ...
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A/V Controls button for Slow motion in QuickTime Player (10.5)?
I find that Apple answers this question
Slow motion in QuickTime Player (10.5) in Mac?
From https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250493652
You can use the keyboard shortcuts below for slow motion ...
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USBDLM and VLC video play
I've got a video hosted on a USB stick, that when I plug into a windows computer, the very helpful USBDLM tool automatically opens the video with VLC and some launch commands.
The issue I have is when ...
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How do I play this UMD format movie?
I have a movie ripped from a UMD format disc in the form of an ISO.
The ISO structure is as follows:
$ls -R
.:
umd_data.bin umd_video
./umd_video:
clipinf icon0.png icon1.pmf param.sfo pic1.png ...
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Why does my TV blank out for a moment when I fullscreen a HDR video file?
I've set up a Ryzen 5/ 3rd generation small form factor / NUC type machine as a HTPC. I'm running windows 11 on it at the moment. I'm using VLC 3.0.18 vetinari as a video player
Its connected to a HDR ...
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Poor performance viewing video from USB Video device in VLC
In VLC, on Windows 10, I'm having trouble viewing 1080p video at reasonable frame rates from a USB video capture device (HDMI source).
When I use OBS Studio, everything works fine: The video is at ...
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How to play a loop of a video with slower speed without changing the audio pitch?
I am trying to learn guitar. I have some videos I'd like to study and play along. I am looking for the command line argument that does the following:
Play part of the video, from timestamp 1 to ...
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VLC mutes sound after seeking on Pop! OS
I noticed this issue when I was playing videos with VLC. When the video is originally opened, there is absolutely no visible problem.
However, seeking (with the mouse's cursor or the arrows of the ...
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VLC: network stream over RTSP: can I use more aggressive buffering?
I can watch my RTSP stream with VLC almost perfectly.
The stream is live, transcoded from h264 to h265 by ffmpeg.
My only concern is that the stream is occasionally (depends on many factors, but at ...
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How to make VLC always appear centered as opposed to bottom right for large videos?
In Windows, VLC automatically positions low resolution videos in the center of the screen. But it completely hides the bottom of high resolution videos and some of their right side too.
While the top ...
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Sometimes when I start a video in vlc player the space bar restarts the video instead of pausing/playing, how can I fix that?
As the title says, sometimes when I start a video in vlc player the space bar doesn't work as expected.
I can watch 20 minutes of a program, and when I press the space bar to pause the video it ...
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VLC on three projectors has synchronization problems even when all videos are started at the same time via command line
I have a synchronization problem with VLC on three projectors.
I want to play one video on two side projectors and second one on main projector. Here is my Windows 10 command:
"c:\Program Files\...
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How can I configure the default audio output in VLC player?
I'm running VLC Player on a raspberry pi 4, connected to my TV via HDMI, the TV is the only output device that's connected to the pi. I'm not concerned with music at the moment, I just want the ...
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Can one see in VLC whether a video has a variable frame rate?
I couldn't see the information in Media->Codec:
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How can I make the VLC History log store more than the last ten?
By default VLC player only shows the last ten videos under "Media > Open Recent Media"
But what if I'd like to be able to see what I've selected (and choose one of them) from as far back ...
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ffmpeg: Combining two A/V streams results in out of sync audio in VLC player but not QuickTime
I have two files (one audio, one video, both mp4) I want to combine into a single mp4 without re-encoding the streams. They both have the same duration (well, technically one is 0.05s longer than the ...
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how to fix mp4 file with missing moov atom?
I have a video file (mp4) and I want to load it in a video editor. However, it shows an error which says, "file format not recognized." So, I used the file command and the output is just ...
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How to merge videos together use VLC command line（some video have one audio track, some video not have audio track）
vlc *.mp4 --sout "#gather:std{access=file,dst=all.mp4}" --no-sout-all --sout-keep
I have tried the above command, but it doesn't work.
Except for the number of audio tracks, these videos ...
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VLC creates blank video when converting with crop filter
I have an MP4 video I'm trying to crop using VLC media player.
I've followed the directions here, but the result is a file with only audio and no video.
What's going on and how do I fix it?
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I ...
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VLC: Playing Two Video Tracks Simultaneously in the Same Window
I have several videos with two video tracks: one of a speaker and the other of the speaker's slides. I'd like to play both tracks side by side simultaneously. I've discovered that if I open the video ...
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How can .m3u8 and .ts streams or videos properly be saved, without any pixelated or corrupted frames? VLC or FFMPEG, or anything else
I was wondering how to save contents of .m3u8, generally any that works, using VLC at "Open Network Stream".
I saw that these files often contain .ts files, that are named "playlist&...
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How to convert old videos to a new format that is playable in most modern browsers?
I found a stash of old video clips I'd like to share online with a HTML5-video player. But none of them opens in Chrome. I guess the codecs are not supported.
What format should I convert to? What is ...
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What is caching in video playback?
This screenshot is from the VLC preferences menu. I initially had some stuttering issues while playing videos at 2x. Then I changed the File Caching to 10000ms, and the issue is likely gone. How does ...
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VLC Subtitles are cut off/looping around?
I have a .mkv file with .srt subtitles.
For some reason, sometimes the last letter of the top row of subtitles gets cut in half, and the half that gets cut off appears at the front of the sentence?
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How can I fix a (possibly corrupt?) mp4 file?
I'm afraid I don't know (can someone help me diagnose?) whether this file is corrupt or not. I'm just guessing. I'm using Linux, Lubuntu 20.04LTS, and VLC v 3.0.9.2.
Unlike the other mp4 files in ...
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Quicktime Player Resizing Window
How can I resize the window while a video is opened with Quicktime Player freely?
For instance resizing the width resizes the length along with it, vice versa. I wouldn't mind to have black bars on ...
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Is there a way to configure VLC to remember which video I was on when I open a folder?
Basically every time I open VLC, I manually open the folder which contains the videos (episodes from a show) that I am watching and then manually select the video I was watching the last time I closed ...
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Mp4 file that plays fine on Windows Quicktime but video frames not in order and out of sync with audio in VLC
Someone has sent me a video that I wish to embed into a presentation I'm building. However, it doesn't play back as the author intended either embedded or standalone. I suspect was encoded on a Mac, ...
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ffmpeg generated video is mute after seeking it forward
The video is mute after seeking it forward, it was created with ffmpeg. When I play it normally (without seek it) the audio played, I am a Linux user and test it with VLC player and mpv player.
I ...
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Why VLC Media Player video lags when I fast forward ts video file?
I download a lot of ts video from website. I've noticed about VLC Media Player playing: video lags for around one to two second when I fast forward the video. Other file types like mp4 work perfectly ...
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How to extract video and audio track from multi-track wmv video
I have a number of WMV files with two video tracks and one audio track. How do I extract the second video track and the audio track so I can get rid of the useless first video track?
I try playing ...
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How to play video forward and backward?
I am analyzing some videos and I would be very comfortable with a function to see the video forward and backward on occasion. I thought it was an achievable result with negative speed, but at least in ...
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ffmpeg screen recording file can't be played with video via windows media player [duplicate]
I'm new to ffmpeg. Recently I have recorded my screen using commmand C:\Users\Totzfreelance\ffmpeg.exe -f dshow -i video="UScreenCapture":audio="Microphone (Realtek High Definition ...
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This video has not been mixed with the audio because the audio stream has a different format
I face the following problem from time to time when I want to download some video:
This video has not been mixed with the audio because the audio stream
has a different format
I want to know How to ...
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2160p HEVC 4K video not playing
This video is not playing in pc
I have tried vlc 3.0016, Media Player classic and pot player but did not able to figure out the correct configuration to run the video.
Any suggestion of any other ...
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Subtitles misaligned/missing when cutting video using ffmpeg
TL;DR: After cutting a video with ffmpeg, subtitles are invisible in VLC player even though there is a subtitle stream.
I have an MP4 file of a TV recording of a movie and I want to cut off the parts ...
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Resize an MP4 with AAC/H.264 encoding in 16:9 to a smaller 16:9 file
I have a 1920x1080 (16:9) MP4 file with Codecs: AAC, H.264 that I would like to shrink to various smaller sizes, for example: 1280x720 or perhaps 640x360.
As far as I know, those values are clean 16:9 ...
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