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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.
51 Specify a module for IDCT: "idct", "idctmmx", for instance.
54 Specify a YUV module: "yuv", "yuvmmx", for instance.
56 .B \-\-display <display>
57 Specify the display name.
59 .B \-\-width <w>, \-\-height <h>
60 Choose the display coordinates.
69 Choose a fixed synchro value instead of the internal auto-adaptative
70 heuristics based on CPU usage.
72 `I' displays only I images, `IP' displays I and P images, `IP+'
73 displays I and P images and every second B image, and `IPB' forces
74 displaying of all images.
76 Note that the vlc is certainly going to crash if you ask it to
77 display more images than your CPU can cope with.
80 Activate DVD mode, by directly accessing the DVD drive (no need to mount
83 opens /dev/dvd, but this behaviour may be overridden by the vlc_dvd_device
84 environment variable (see below).
86 .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
87 Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
88 you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
89 not to activate the audio channel.
91 .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
92 Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
93 but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
94 audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
96 .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
97 Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
100 Disable VLANs support.
102 .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
103 Choose the video server address and port.
109 Print long help and exit.
112 Output version information and exit.
115 also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
117 .B Interface parameters:
118 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script
119 vlc_channels=<filename> channels list
120 warning_level=<level> warning level
123 vlc_aout=<method name> audio method
124 vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path
125 vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output
126 vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate
129 vlc_vout=<method name> display method
130 vlc_display=<display> display used
131 vlc_width=<width> display width
132 vlc_height=<height> dislay height
133 vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device
134 vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color
135 vlc_idct=<method name> IDCT method
136 vlc_yuv=<method name> YUV method
137 vlc_synchro={I|I+|IP|IP+|IPB} synchro algorithm
140 vlc_dvd_device=<device> DVD device
141 vlc_dvd_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
142 vlc_dvd_channel=[0-15] audio channel
143 vlc_dvd_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel
146 vlc_server=<hostname> video server
147 vlc_server_port=<port> video server port
148 vlc_broadcast={1|0} broadcast mode
149 vlc_iface=<interface> network interface
150 vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server
151 vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port
154 .BR vls (1), vlms (1)
157 This manual page was written by the VideoLAN Team <videolan@via.ecp.fr>,
158 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).