Vlc Media Player Troubleshoot
VideoLAN
What is VideoLAN. What is the VideoLAN Team.
VideoLAN is a non-profit organization, that produces and distributes free and open source software for video and multimedia purpose, released under Open Source licenses.
It started as a student project at the French Г cole Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from everywhere and dozens of millions of people using VideoLAN s software.
What is the legal structure of VideoLAN.
VideoLAN is a French non-profit organization.
VideoLAN has its own bank account and is fully responsible of this website.
What are the differences between VLC, VLC media player, VideoLAN Client, VideoLAN Server and VideoLAN.
VLC is the official name of VideoLAN s main product, often named VLC. VideoLAN Client is an ancient name of this product.
VideoLAN Server is another product of VideoLAN, but is discontinued since a long time.
VideoLAN is not a software, see 1.1 of this FAQ.
How can I contribute to VideoLAN.
You might either contribute time, material, or money. You don t need to be a programmer to help us. We are also always needing some translators and designers.
You will find all information you need on the contribution page.
Why are your mailing-lists and your website in english.
VideoLAN s developers come from all around the world and english is the only language they can use to communicate together. Although great care is given to the translation of VLC in various languages, maintaining translations of our website costs too much more time than we can afford.
What should I do if I can t find an answer to my question here.
Read the other section of the Support center
Does VLC support DVDs from all regions.
This mostly depends on your DVD drive. Testing it is usually the quickest way to find out. The problem is that a lot of newer drives are RPC2 drives these days. Some of these drives don t allow raw access to the drive untill the drive firmware has done a regioncheck. VLC uses libdvdcss and it needs raw access to the DVD drive to crack the encryption key. So with those drives it is impossible to circumvent the region protection. This goes for all software. You will need to flash your drives firmware, but sometimes there is no alternate firmware available for your drive. On other RPC2 drives that do allow raw access, it might take VLC a long time to crack the key. So just pop the disc in your drive and try it out, while you get a coffee. RPC1 drives should always work regardless of the regioncode.
Where does VLC store its config file.
Currently, a config file is created on a per user basis there is no global configuration file. If you modify the available options in VLC and save the new configuration, then a configuration file will be created in your user directory. The precise location of this file depends on the Operating System you are running:
Linux / Unix: HOME /.config/vlc/vlcrc v0.9.0 and above, HOME /.vlc/vlcrc v0.8 and older
Mac OS X: HOME/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc HOME/Library/Preferences/VLC v0.9 and older
Windows 95/98/ME: C: Windows Application Data vlc vlcrc
Windows 2000/XP: C: Documents and Settings username Application Data vlc vlcrc
Windows Vista/7: C: Users username Application Data vlc vlcrc
BeOS: config/settings/vlcrc
VLC has a strange behavior
Please consider the Reset preferences section in our Wiki for a variety of possible solutions.
Videos are too dark
Often this is caused by video hardware overlay problems:
If it is only one video then use the Settings menu, option Extended GUI and try to increase the Gamma value in the Video tab.
Check your video card settings and turn off hardware video overlay. If the videos now play with proper lighting, then deinstalling and reinstalling the video drivers might help.
I cannot read DVDs.
Here are a few things to check:
If you are on Linux/Unix, did you install the libdvdcss package.
Do you have write access to your DVD device. For instance, from the console:
chmod 666 /dev/dvd
where /dev/dvd is the device corresponding to your DVD drive.
Video is choppy
Your system might be too slow to decode all pictures. It might be that your CPU basically is not fast enough. It can also be that the subsystem is misconfigured/misdriven, this happens for example under Redhat Linux. Here are some elements to improve speed:
Turn on DMA on your DVD device, for instance:
Under Linux:
Under Windows, go to the
System
section of the control panel, and go to the
Hardware manager
it is sometimes in a separate tab, and sometimes, you have to go to the
Advanced
tab. Then, righ-click on your DVD player, and check the
DMA
checkbox.
Upgrade to the latest driver for your video board.
If you are running Linux, you can additionnaly upgrade to the latest X.Org version. If supported, check that the xvideo plug-in is effectively used with:
vlc -vv
Stop other running applications
Try disabling framedropping. Framedropping allows VLC not to decode some pictures when the CPU is overloaded, but can result in choppier playback under certain conditions.
Framedropping behaviour can be configured in the Video preferences of VLC.
Audio and video are out of sync
Try using another audio output plugin and, under Unix, kill esd, artsd or pulseaudio if they are running. If the problem is due to the input file, have a look at the Audio desynchronisation compensation option.
Oops, there is an information missing:
Audio desynchronisation compensation is limited by the cache size depending to the selected access module. This can be altered in the configuration panel.
Please, for the clueless people arguing that it doesn t work, include the information mentioned in the
second post
of this thread in The VideoLAN Forums exhaustingly, as by my nearly ever-lasting research on the same issue there are a lot of locations here and there where it isn t being mentioned unfortunately. Best if it was mentioned in the tooltip as well. Please do put this tag into the appropiate location or remove it once it is a documented feature inside the software, agreed.
VLC crashes
Increase the verbosity level either in the preferences or with a -vv command line option and look at the debug messages in the terminal or in the Messages window.
If you are convinced that it is a bug in VLC, have a look at the bug reporting page.
How can I take screenshots.
To take a snapshot of the video displayed by VLC, you just need to press the pre-defined snapshot hotkey:
Windows / Linux / Unix: Ctrl Alt S
Mac OS X: Command Alt s
To change it, go to Preferences - Interface - Hotkeys settings, check Advanced options, and set Take video snapshot.
You can also take a snaphot via the menu Video - Snapshot.
To change the snapshot format or directory, go to Preferences - Video.
Where are my screenshots.
If you haven t changed the snapshot directory in your preferences, your screenshots should go to:
Windows: My Documents My Pictures
To change it, go to Preferences - Video - Video snapshot directory.
My file doesn t seem to work.
Are you sure VLC supports the file. Try checking the features page. If it supported and you compiled VLC yourself, check if you have downloaded and installed all the codecs correctly. If it is not supported, then you are out of luck for now.
VLC doesn t display all subtitles
If VLC has autodetected your subtitles file, or if you opened it manually, but VLC only diplays some subtitles from time to time, you will need to change the subtitles file encoding.
Go to Preferences - Input / Codecs - Other codecs - Subtitles, and set Subtitle text encoding to the right one.
See this reference: ISO Standard for various characters sets.
Go to Preferences - Video - Output modules, and set Video output module to something different, like DirectX video output. Be sure you have advanced options enabled to be able to access this option. Also, you might need to disable the YUV - RGB checkbox in DirectX section of Preferences - Video - Output modules.
Support and feature requests
Why am I permanently banned from the forum.
Probably your IP address was banned, but it is not necessarily your fault.
- If you are at home, your dynamic IP was probably previously abused by a spammer.
- If you are at work/school, other users on your network may have caused the blacklisting.
Try to go through the list of blacklists presented to you on https://forum.videolan.org/403.html and remove yourself, if you are listed. Finally, don t forget to ensure that your computer and web browser are free of trojans/malware, and failing everything wait for a new dynamic IP.
Will VLC be available on Windows Phone.
We re currently working on it. Since development for Windows Phone is harder in comparison to other mobile platforms, we can t estimate the time needed to release a version for Windows Phone. The latest updates can be received by following us on twitter or subscribing to our RSS feed.
When will VLC be able to stream to Chromecast.
We re currently working on it but can t give a release date.
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VLC Media Player, free for download at Videolan.org, is a powerful video player and transcoder converter, capable of capturing and exporting streaming video, as well as converting to and from a number of audio and video formats. There are several ways to troubleshoot your VLC Player, depending on the problem. It may be a simple problem--as easy as quitting and restarting VLC--or a more advanced problem involving your video card. Other common playback problems with VLC may be due to your Preference settings or from trying to play a codec that is not currently installed in your player. If you have a problem you cannot fix by using any of the means here or at VideoLan.org, you can report it to VideoLan.
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Reset your Preference settings under the General tab, quit VLC and restart.
Try deleting VLC s configuration file, which is located in your user directory.
For Windows XP users, VLC can be found in your C-Drive:
C: Documents and Settings username Application Data vlc vlcrc
For Mac OSX Users: HOME/Library/Preferences/VLC
Download and re-launch VLC.
Upgrade your video card from its manufacturer; for many, this is a free upgrade. Or, try disabling your video s overlay by clicking Preferences/General/Video and de-selecting Overlay Video Output.
Change your video output module by clicking Preferences and selecting Video. Click Output Modules and try choosing a different option VideoLan suggests trying the DirectX video output, which claims to have helped many people who experience purple video.
Tips Warnings
According to VideoLan, VLC does not support WMV3, the most recent Real Player and the most recent Indeo Video IV50 files.
References.
WMPRepair. If you re not keen on using a different video player, but are still experiencing video playback issues, WMP Repair might be able to help you.
