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19 vlc \- The VideoLAN Client
26 This manual page documents briefly the
28 , a free MPEG2 player.
31 follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
32 options starting with two dashes (`-').
33 A summary of options is included below.
39 Specify an audio output plugin.
41 .B \-\-stereo, \-\-mono
42 Choose stereo or mono audio output
48 Specify a video output plugin.
50 .B \-\-display <display>
51 Specify the display name.
53 .B \-\-width <w>, \-\-height <h>
54 Choose the display coordinates.
62 .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
63 Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
64 you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
65 not to activate the audio channel.
67 .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
68 Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
69 but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
70 audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
72 .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
73 Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
76 Disable VLANs support.
78 .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
79 Choose the video server address and port.
85 Print long help and exit.
88 Output version information and exit.
91 also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
93 .B Interface parameters:
94 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script
95 vlc_channels=<filename> channels list
98 vlc_aout=<method name> audio method
99 vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path
100 vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output
101 vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate
104 vlc_vout=<method name> display method
105 vlc_display=<display> display used
106 vlc_width=<width> display width
107 vlc_height=<height> dislay height
108 vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device path
109 vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color output
112 vlc_dvd_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
113 vlc_dvd_channel=[0-15] audio channel
114 vlc_dvd_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel
117 vlc_server=<hostname> video server
118 vlc_server_port=<port> video server port
119 vlc_iface=<interface> network interface
120 vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server
121 vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port
124 .BR vls (1), vlms (1)
127 This manual page was written by the VideoLAN Team <videolan@via.ecp.fr>,
128 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).