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19 vlc, gvlc, gnome-vlc, 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.
53 Activate hardware AC3 pass-through mode.
55 .B \-\-downmix <module>
56 Specify a module for AC3 downmix: "downmix", "sse" or "3dn" for instance.
59 Specify a module for AC3 IMDCT: "imdct", sse" or "3dn" for instance.
64 .B \-V, \-\-vout <module>
65 Specify a video output module: "x11", "sdl", "fb", for instance.
67 .B \-\-motion <module>
68 Specify a module for motion compensation: "motion", "motionmmx", for instance.
71 Specify a module for IDCT: "idct", "idctmmx", for instance.
74 Specify a YUV module: "yuv", "yuvmmx", for instance.
76 .B \-\-display <display>
77 Specify the display name.
79 .B \-\-width <w>, \-\-height <h>
80 Choose the display coordinates.
89 Overlay (hardware accelerated output), if available.
91 .B \-\-xvadaptor <port>
92 Select XVideo adaptor, if XVideo output is used.
98 Choose a fixed synchro value instead of the internal auto-adaptative
99 heuristics based on CPU usage.
101 `I' displays only I images, `IP' displays I and P images, `IP+'
102 displays I and P images and every second B image, and `IPB' forces
103 displaying of all images.
105 Note that vlc is not guaranteed to behave properly if you ask it to
106 display more images than your CPU can cope with.
108 .B \-t, \-\-dvdtitle <title>
109 Choose the DVD title. Most movies on DVDs start on the first title, but you may want to manually select another title.
111 .B \-T, \-\-dvdchapter <title>
112 Choose the DVD chapter. DVDs are divided into titles, which in turn are divided into chapters.
114 .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
115 Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
116 you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
117 not to activate the audio channel.
119 .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
120 Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
121 but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
122 audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
124 .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
125 Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
127 .B \-\-input <method>
128 Choose the input method, "dvd", "ps", "ts" for instance.
131 Enable VLANs support. This feature isn't activated yet.
133 .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
134 Choose the video server address and port.
137 Set broadcast mode for network input.
143 Print long help and exit.
146 Output version information and exit.
149 also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
151 .B Interface parameters:
152 vlc_intf=<method name> interface method
153 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script
154 vlc_channels=<filename> channels list
157 vlc_aout=<method name> audio method
158 vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path
159 vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output
160 vlc_spdif={1|0} AC3 pass-through mode
161 vlc_downmix=<method name> AC3 downmix method
162 vlc_imdct=<method name> AC3 IMDCT method
163 vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate
166 vlc_vout=<method name> display method
167 vlc_display=<display> display used
168 vlc_width=<width> display width
169 vlc_height=<height> dislay height
170 vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device
171 vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color
172 vlc_fullscreen={1|0} full screen
173 vlc_overlay={1|0} overlay
174 vlc_xvport=<port> XVideo port
175 vlc_motion=<method name> motion compensation method
176 vlc_idct=<method name> IDCT method
177 vlc_yuv=<method name> YUV method
178 vlc_synchro={I|I+|IP|IP+|IPB} synchro algorithm
181 vlc_dvd_device=<device> DVD device
182 vlc_input_title=<title> title number
183 vlc_input_chapter=<chapter> chapter number
184 vlc_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
185 vlc_channel=[0-15] audio channel
186 vlc_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel
189 vlc_server=<hostname> video server
190 vlc_server_port=<port> video server port
191 vlc_broadcast={1|0} broadcast mode
192 vlc_iface=<interface> network interface
193 vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server
194 vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port
197 .BR vls (1), vlms (1)
200 This manual page was written by Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).