.\" 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 [ FILE ]... .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents briefly the .B vlc , a free MPEG, MPEG2 and DVD player. .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 \-\-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 \-\-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 \-\-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 \-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 \-\-input <method> Choose the input method, "dvd", "ps", "ts" for instance. .TP .B \-\-vlans Enable VLANs support. This feature isn't activated yet. .TP .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port> Choose the video server address and port. .TP .B \-\-broadcast Set broadcast mode for network input. .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 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script vlc_channels=<filename> channels list .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_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_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_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type vlc_channel=[0-15] audio channel vlc_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel .TP .B Input parameters: vlc_server=<hostname> video server vlc_server_port=<port> video server port vlc_broadcast={1|0} broadcast mode vlc_iface=<interface> network interface vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port .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).