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19 vlc, gvlc, gnome-vlc, kvlc, qvlc \- The VideoLAN Client
26 This manual page documents briefly the
28 , a free MPEG, MPEG2 and DVD 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.
35 .B \-I, \-\-intf <module>
36 Specify an interface module: "gnome", "curses", "qt", for instance.
41 verbosity. This command is cumulative, you can use "-vv" or "-vvvv" for increased verbosity.
46 .B \-A, \-\-aout <module>
47 Specify an audio output module: "dsp", "esd", for instance.
49 .B \-\-stereo, \-\-mono
50 Choose stereo or mono audio output
55 .B \-V, \-\-vout <module>
56 Specify a video output module: "x11", "sdl", "fb", for instance.
58 .B \-\-motion <module>
59 Specify a module for motion compensation: "motion", "motionmmx", for instance.
62 Specify a module for IDCT: "idct", "idctmmx", for instance.
65 Specify a YUV module: "yuv", "yuvmmx", for instance.
67 .B \-\-display <display>
68 Specify the display name.
70 .B \-\-width <w>, \-\-height <h>
71 Choose the display coordinates.
80 Overlay (hardware accelerated output), if available.
86 Choose a fixed synchro value instead of the internal auto-adaptative
87 heuristics based on CPU usage.
89 `I' displays only I images, `IP' displays I and P images, `IP+'
90 displays I and P images and every second B image, and `IPB' forces
91 displaying of all images.
93 Note that vlc is not guaranteed to behave properly if you ask it to
94 display more images than your CPU can cope with.
96 .B \-t, \-\-dvdtitle <title>
97 Choose the DVD title. Most movies on DVDs start on the first title, but you may want to manually select another title.
99 .B \-T, \-\-dvdchapter <title>
100 Choose the DVD chapter. DVDs are divided into titles, which in turn are divided into chapters.
102 .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
103 Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
104 you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
105 not to activate the audio channel.
107 .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
108 Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
109 but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
110 audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
112 .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
113 Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
115 .B \-\-input <method>
116 Choose the input method, "dvd", "ps", "ts" for instance.
119 Enable VLANs support. This feature isn't activated yet.
121 .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
122 Choose the video server address and port.
125 Set broadcast mode for network input.
131 Print long help and exit.
134 Output version information and exit.
137 also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
139 .B Interface parameters:
140 vlc_intf=<method name> interface method
141 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script
142 vlc_channels=<filename> channels list
145 vlc_aout=<method name> audio method
146 vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path
147 vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output
148 vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate
151 vlc_vout=<method name> display method
152 vlc_display=<display> display used
153 vlc_width=<width> display width
154 vlc_height=<height> dislay height
155 vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device
156 vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color
157 vlc_fullscreen={1|0} full screen
158 vlc_overlay={1|0} overlay
159 vlc_idct=<method name> IDCT method
160 vlc_yuv=<method name> YUV method
161 vlc_synchro={I|I+|IP|IP+|IPB} synchro algorithm
164 vlc_dvd_device=<device> DVD device
165 vlc_input_title=<title> title number
166 vlc_input_chapter=<chapter> chapter number
167 vlc_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
168 vlc_channel=[0-15] audio channel
169 vlc_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel
172 vlc_server=<hostname> video server
173 vlc_server_port=<port> video server port
174 vlc_broadcast={1|0} broadcast mode
175 vlc_iface=<interface> network interface
176 vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server
177 vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port
180 .BR vls (1), vlms (1)
183 This manual page was written by Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).