.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH VLC 1 "March 10, 2001" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME vlc, gvlc, gnome-vlc, qvlc \- The VideoLAN Client .SH SYNOPSIS .B vlc .RI [ OPTIONS ] .RI [ PARAMETERS ] .RI [ ITEMS ]... .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B vlc , a free MPEG, MPEG2 and DVD player. .SH ITEMS .B vlc recognizes several URL-style items: .TP .B *.mpg, *.vob Plain MPEG-1/2 files .TP .B dvd:[@] DVD device (for instance dvd:/dev/dvd). The raw device is optional and must have been prepared beforehands. .TP .B vcd: VCD device (for instance dvd:/dev/cdrom). .TP .B udpstream:[[:]][@[][:]] UDP stream, such as one sent by VideoLAN Server or VideoLAN miniserver. Usually "udpstream:" is enough. .TP .B vlc: Execute a play-list command. Commands are : .B loop (loop the playlist), .B pause (pause execution of other items), and .B quit (close VLC). .SH OPTIONS .B vlc follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. .TP .B \-I, \-\-intf Specify an interface module: "gnome", "curses", "qt", for instance. .TP .B \-v, \-\-verbose Set .B vlc verbosity. This command is cumulative, you can use "-vv" or "-vvvv" for increased verbosity. .TP .B \-\-memcpy Specify a module for performing heavy memory copies: "memcpy", "sse" for instance. .TP .B \-\-noaudio Disable audio output. .TP .B \-A, \-\-aout Specify an audio output module: "dsp", "esd", for instance. .TP .B \-\-stereo, \-\-mono Choose stereo or mono audio output. .TP .B \-\-spdif Activate hardware AC3 pass-through mode. .TP .B \-\-downmix Specify a module for AC3 downmix: "downmix", "sse" or "3dn" for instance. .TP .B \-\-imdct Specify a module for AC3 IMDCT: "imdct", sse" or "3dn" for instance. .TP .B \-\-volume [1..1024] Change VLC output volume (default: 512). .TP .B \-\-novideo Disable video output. .TP .B \-V, \-\-vout Specify a video output module: "x11", "sdl", "fb", for instance. .TP .B \-\-motion Specify a module for motion compensation: "motion", "motionmmx", for instance. .TP .B \-\-idct Specify a module for IDCT: "idct", "idctmmx", for instance. .TP .B \-\-yuv Specify a YUV module: "yuv", "yuvmmx", for instance. .TP .B \-\-display Specify the display name. .TP .B \-\-width , \-\-height Choose the display coordinates. .TP .B \-g, \-\-grayscale Grayscale output. .TP .B \-\-fullscreen Full screen output. .TP .B \-\-overlay Overlay (hardware accelerated output), if available. .TP .B \-\-xvadaptor Select XVideo adaptor, if XVideo output is used. .TP .B \-\-color Color output. .TP .B \-\-synchro Choose a fixed synchro value instead of the internal auto-adaptative heuristics based on CPU usage. `I' displays only I images, `IP' displays I and P images, `IP+' displays I and P images and every second B image, and `IPB' forces displaying of all images. Note that vlc is not guaranteed to behave properly if you ask it to display more images than your CPU can cope with. .TP .B \-t, \-\-dvdtitle Choose the DVD title. Most movies on DVDs start on the first title, but you may want to manually select another title. .TP .B \-T, \-\-dvdchapter <title> Choose the DVD chapter. DVDs are divided into titles, which in turn are divided into chapters. .TP .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ] Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide not to activate the audio channel. .TP .B \-u, \-\-dvdangle <num> Choose the angle, available on some DVDs. .TP .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ] Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels, but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the audio channel will also depend on the channel type. .TP .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ] Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream. .TP .B \-\-dvdcss-method <method> Select the CSS decryption scheme when using libdvdcss. Usually to choose from "disc", "title" or "key", but depends on your libdvdcss version. .TP .B \-\-dvdcss-verbose <level> Select the CSS decryption verbosity level, 0, 1 or 2. .TP .B \-\-input <method> Choose the input method, "dvd", "ps", "ts" for instance. .TP .B \-h, \-\-help Print help and exit. .TP .B \-H, \-\-longhelp Print long help and exit. .TP .B \-\-version Output version information and exit. .SH PARAMETERS .B vlc also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour. .TP .B Interface parameters: vlc_intf=<method name> interface method .TP .B Audio parameters: vlc_aout=<method name> audio method vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output vlc_spdif={1|0} AC3 pass-through mode vlc_downmix=<method name> AC3 downmix method vlc_imdct=<method name> AC3 IMDCT method vlc_volume=[0..1024] VLC output volume vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate .TP .B Video parameters: vlc_vout=<method name> display method vlc_display=<display> display used vlc_width=<width> display width vlc_height=<height> dislay height vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color vlc_fullscreen={1|0} full screen vlc_overlay={1|0} overlay vlc_xvport=<port> XVideo port vlc_motion=<method name> motion compensation method vlc_idct=<method name> IDCT method vlc_yuv=<method name> YUV method vlc_synchro={I|I+|IP|IP+|IPB} synchro algorithm .TP .B DVD parameters: vlc_dvd_device=<device> DVD device vlc_input_title=<title> title number vlc_input_chapter=<chapter> chapter number vlc_input_angle=<angle> angle number vlc_input_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type vlc_input_channel=[0-15] audio channel vlc_input_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel .TP .B Input parameters: vlc_iface=<interface> network interface .SH SEE ALSO .BR vls (1), vlms (1) .br .SH AUTHOR This manual page was written by Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).