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19 vlc, gvlc, kvlc \- 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.
36 Specify an interface module: "gnome", "curses", "shell", for instance.
38 .B \-\-warning <level>
39 Select the warning level. 0 is the most verbose, 3 is almost mute.
45 Specify an audio output module: "dsp", "esd", for instance.
47 .B \-\-stereo, \-\-mono
48 Choose stereo or mono audio output
54 Specify a video output module: "x11", "sdl", "fb", for instance.
56 .B \-\-motion <module>
57 Specify a module for motion compensation: "motion", "motionmmx", for instance.
60 Specify a module for IDCT: "idct", "idctmmx", for instance.
63 Specify a YUV module: "yuv", "yuvmmx", for instance.
65 .B \-\-display <display>
66 Specify the display name.
68 .B \-\-width <w>, \-\-height <h>
69 Choose the display coordinates.
78 Overlay (hardware accelerated output), if available.
84 Choose a fixed synchro value instead of the internal auto-adaptative
85 heuristics based on CPU usage.
87 `I' displays only I images, `IP' displays I and P images, `IP+'
88 displays I and P images and every second B image, and `IPB' forces
89 displaying of all images.
91 Note that vlc is certainly going to crash if you ask it to
92 display more images than your CPU can cope with.
94 .B \-t, \-\-dvdtitle <title>
95 Choose the DVD title. Most movies on DVDs start on the first title, but you may want to manually select another title.
97 .B \-T, \-\-dvdchapter <title>
98 Choose the DVD chapter. DVDs are divided into titles, which in turn are divided into chapters.
100 .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
101 Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
102 you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
103 not to activate the audio channel.
105 .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
106 Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
107 but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
108 audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
110 .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
111 Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
113 .B \-\-input <method>
114 Choose the input method, "dvd", "ps", "ts" for instance.
117 Enable VLANs support. This feature isn't activated yet.
119 .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
120 Choose the video server address and port.
123 Set broadcast mode for network input.
129 Print long help and exit.
132 Output version information and exit.
135 also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
137 .B Interface parameters:
138 vlc_intf=<method name> interface method
139 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script
140 vlc_channels=<filename> channels list
141 warning_level=<level> warning level
144 vlc_aout=<method name> audio method
145 vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path
146 vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output
147 vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate
150 vlc_vout=<method name> display method
151 vlc_display=<display> display used
152 vlc_width=<width> display width
153 vlc_height=<height> dislay height
154 vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device
155 vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color
156 vlc_fullscreen={1|0} full screen
157 vlc_overlay={1|0} overlay
158 vlc_idct=<method name> IDCT method
159 vlc_yuv=<method name> YUV method
160 vlc_synchro={I|I+|IP|IP+|IPB} synchro algorithm
163 vlc_dvd_device=<device> DVD device
164 vlc_input_title=<title> title number
165 vlc_input_chapter=<chapter> chapter number
166 vlc_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
167 vlc_channel=[0-15] audio channel
168 vlc_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel
171 vlc_server=<hostname> video server
172 vlc_server_port=<port> video server port
173 vlc_broadcast={1|0} broadcast mode
174 vlc_iface=<interface> network interface
175 vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server
176 vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port
179 .BR vls (1), vlms (1)
182 This manual page was written by Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).