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19 vlc, fbvlc, gvlc \- 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 module: "dsp", "esd", for instance.
41 .B \-\-stereo, \-\-mono
42 Choose stereo or mono audio output
48 Specify a video output module: "gnome", "fb", "glide", for instance.
50 .B \-\-motion <module>
51 Specify a module for motion compensation: "motion", "motionmmx", for instance.
54 Specify a module for IDCT: "idct", "idctmmx", for instance.
57 Specify a YUV module: "yuv", "yuvmmx", for instance.
59 .B \-\-display <display>
60 Specify the display name.
62 .B \-\-width <w>, \-\-height <h>
63 Choose the display coordinates.
72 Overlay (hardware accelerated output), if available.
78 Choose a fixed synchro value instead of the internal auto-adaptative
79 heuristics based on CPU usage.
81 `I' displays only I images, `IP' displays I and P images, `IP+'
82 displays I and P images and every second B image, and `IPB' forces
83 displaying of all images.
85 Note that the vlc is certainly going to crash if you ask it to
86 display more images than your CPU can cope with.
89 Activate DVD mode, by directly accessing the DVD drive (no need to mount
92 opens /dev/dvd, but this behaviour may be overridden by the vlc_dvd_device
93 environment variable (see below).
95 .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
96 Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
97 you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
98 not to activate the audio channel.
100 .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
101 Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
102 but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
103 audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
105 .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
106 Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
109 Disable VLANs support.
111 .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
112 Choose the video server address and port.
118 Print long help and exit.
121 Output version information and exit.
124 also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
126 .B Interface parameters:
127 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script
128 vlc_channels=<filename> channels list
129 warning_level=<level> warning level
132 vlc_aout=<method name> audio method
133 vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path
134 vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output
135 vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate
138 vlc_vout=<method name> display method
139 vlc_display=<display> display used
140 vlc_width=<width> display width
141 vlc_height=<height> dislay height
142 vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device
143 vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color
144 vlc_fullscreen={1|0} full screen
145 vlc_overlay={1|0} overlay
146 vlc_idct=<method name> IDCT method
147 vlc_yuv=<method name> YUV method
148 vlc_synchro={I|I+|IP|IP+|IPB} synchro algorithm
151 vlc_dvd_device=<device> DVD device
152 vlc_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
153 vlc_channel=[0-15] audio channel
154 vlc_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel
157 vlc_server=<hostname> video server
158 vlc_server_port=<port> video server port
159 vlc_broadcast={1|0} broadcast mode
160 vlc_iface=<interface> network interface
161 vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server
162 vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port
165 .BR vls (1), vlms (1)
168 This manual page was written by the VideoLAN Team <videolan@via.ecp.fr>,
169 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).