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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 plugin: "dsp", "esd", for instance.
41 .B \-\-stereo, \-\-mono
42 Choose stereo or mono audio output
48 Specify a video output plugin: "gnome", "fb", "glide", for instance.
51 Specify a YUV plugin: "mmx", "nommx", for instance.
53 .B \-\-display <display>
54 Specify the display name.
56 .B \-\-width <w>, \-\-height <h>
57 Choose the display coordinates.
65 .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
66 Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
67 you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
68 not to activate the audio channel.
70 .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
71 Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
72 but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
73 audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
75 .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
76 Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
79 Disable VLANs support.
81 .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
82 Choose the video server address and port.
85 Choose a fixed synchro value instead of the internal auto-adaptative
86 heuristics based on CPU usage.
88 `I' displays only I images, `IP' displays I and P images, `IP+'
89 displays I and P images and every second B image, and `IPB' forces
90 displaying of all images.
92 Note that the vlc is certainly going to crash if you ask it to
93 display more images than your CPU can cope with.
99 Print long help and exit.
102 Output version information and exit.
105 also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
107 .B Interface parameters:
108 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script
109 vlc_channels=<filename> channels list
112 vlc_aout=<method name> audio method
113 vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path
114 vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output
115 vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate
118 vlc_vout=<method name> display method
119 vlc_display=<display> display used
120 vlc_width=<width> display width
121 vlc_height=<height> dislay height
122 vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device path
123 vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color output
126 vlc_dvd_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
127 vlc_dvd_channel=[0-15] audio channel
128 vlc_dvd_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel
131 vlc_server=<hostname> video server
132 vlc_server_port=<port> video server port
133 vlc_iface=<interface> network interface
134 vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server
135 vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port
137 .B Synchro parameters:
138 vlc_synchro=<type> synchro algorithm
141 .BR vls (1), vlms (1)
144 This manual page was written by the VideoLAN Team <videolan@via.ecp.fr>,
145 for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).