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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", "downmixsse", for instance.
59 Specify a module for AC3 IMDCT: "imdct", "imdctsse", 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.
95 Choose a fixed synchro value instead of the internal auto-adaptative
96 heuristics based on CPU usage.
98 `I' displays only I images, `IP' displays I and P images, `IP+'
99 displays I and P images and every second B image, and `IPB' forces
100 displaying of all images.
102 Note that vlc is not guaranteed to behave properly if you ask it to
103 display more images than your CPU can cope with.
105 .B \-t, \-\-dvdtitle <title>
106 Choose the DVD title. Most movies on DVDs start on the first title, but you may want to manually select another title.
108 .B \-T, \-\-dvdchapter <title>
109 Choose the DVD chapter. DVDs are divided into titles, which in turn are divided into chapters.
111 .B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
112 Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
113 you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
114 not to activate the audio channel.
116 .B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
117 Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
118 but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
119 audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
121 .B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
122 Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
124 .B \-\-input <method>
125 Choose the input method, "dvd", "ps", "ts" for instance.
128 Enable VLANs support. This feature isn't activated yet.
130 .B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
131 Choose the video server address and port.
134 Set broadcast mode for network input.
140 Print long help and exit.
143 Output version information and exit.
146 also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
148 .B Interface parameters:
149 vlc_intf=<method name> interface method
150 vlc_init=<filename> initialization script
151 vlc_channels=<filename> channels list
154 vlc_aout=<method name> audio method
155 vlc_dsp=<filename> dsp device path
156 vlc_stereo={1|0} stereo or mono output
157 vlc_spdif={1|0} AC3 pass-through mode
158 vlc_downmix=<method name> AC3 downmix method
159 vlc_imdct=<method name> AC3 IMDCT method
160 vlc_audio_rate=<rate> output rate
163 vlc_vout=<method name> display method
164 vlc_display=<display> display used
165 vlc_width=<width> display width
166 vlc_height=<height> dislay height
167 vlc_fb_dev=<filename> framebuffer device
168 vlc_grayscale={1|0} grayscale or color
169 vlc_fullscreen={1|0} full screen
170 vlc_overlay={1|0} overlay
171 vlc_motion=<method name> motion compensation method
172 vlc_idct=<method name> IDCT method
173 vlc_yuv=<method name> YUV method
174 vlc_synchro={I|I+|IP|IP+|IPB} synchro algorithm
177 vlc_dvd_device=<device> DVD device
178 vlc_input_title=<title> title number
179 vlc_input_chapter=<chapter> chapter number
180 vlc_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
181 vlc_channel=[0-15] audio channel
182 vlc_subtitle=[0-31] subtitle channel
185 vlc_server=<hostname> video server
186 vlc_server_port=<port> video server port
187 vlc_broadcast={1|0} broadcast mode
188 vlc_iface=<interface> network interface
189 vlc_vlan_server=<host> vlan server
190 vlc_vlan_port=<port> vlan server port
193 .BR vls (1), vlms (1)
196 This manual page was written by Samuel Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).