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.SH NAME
vlc \- The VideoLAN Client
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B vlc
.RI [ OPTIONS ] 
.RI [ PARAMETERS ]
.RI [ FILE ]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B vlc
, a free MPEG2 player.
.SH OPTIONS
.B vlc
follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long
options starting with two dashes (`-').
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-\-noaudio
Disable audio output.
.TP
.B \-\-aout <plugin>
Specify an audio output plugin.
.TP
.B \-\-stereo, \-\-mono
Choose stereo or mono audio output
.TP
.B \-\-novideo
Disable video output.
.TP
.B \-\-vout <plugin>
Specify a video output plugin.
.TP
.B \-\-display <display>
Specify the display name.
.TP
.B \-\-width <w>, -\-\height <h>
Choose the display coordinates.
.TP
.B \-g, \-\-grayscale
Grayscale output.
.TP
.B \-\-color
Color output.
.TP
.B \-a, \-\-dvdaudio [ ac3 | lpcm | mpeg | off ]
Choose the audio channel type. Most DVDs have AC3 audio channels, but
you can also have Linear PCM or MPEG layer 2 sound. Also, one might decide
not to activate the audio channel.
.TP
.B \-c, \-\-dvdchannel [ 0\-15 ]
Select the audio channel. Most DVDs only have one or two audio channels,
but some of them have a great number of available languages. Note that the
audio channel will also depend on the channel type.
.TP
.B \-s, \-\-dvdsubtitle [ 0\-31 ]
Select the subtitle channel, if there is one in the stream.
.TP
.B \-\-novlans
Disable VLANs support.
.TP
.B \-\-server <host>, \-\-port <port>
Choose the video server address and port.
.TP
.B \-h, \-\-help
Print help and exit.
.TP
.B \-H, \-\-longhelp
Print long help and exit.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-version
Output version information and exit.
.SH PARAMETERS
.B vlc
also accepts a lot of parameters to customize its behaviour.
.TP
.B Interface parameters:
 vlc_init=<filename>      initialization script
 vlc_channels=<filename>  channels list
.TP
.B Audio parameters:
 vlc_aout=<method name>   audio method
 vlc_dsp=<filename>       dsp device path
 vlc_stereo={1|0}         stereo or mono output
 vlc_audio_rate=<rate>    output rate
.TP
.B Video parameters:
 vlc_vout=<method name>   display method
 vlc_display=<display>    display used
 vlc_width=<width>        display width
 vlc_height=<height>      dislay height
 vlc_fb_dev=<filename>    framebuffer device path
 vlc_grayscale={1|0}      grayscale or color output
.TP
.B DVD parameters:
 vlc_dvd_audio={ac3|lpcm|mpeg|off} audio type
 vlc_dvd_channel=[0-15]            audio channel
 vlc_dvd_subtitle=[0-31]           subtitle channel
.TP
.B Input parameters:
 vlc_server=<hostname>    video server
 vlc_server_port=<port>   video server port
 vlc_iface=<interface>    network interface
 vlc_vlan_server=<host>   vlan server
 vlc_vlan_port=<port>     vlan server port

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR vls (1), vlms (1)
.br
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by the VideoLAN Team <videolan@via.ecp.fr>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).