VLC user guide

Henri Fallon

Alexis de Lattre

Johan Bilien

Anil Daoud

Mathieu Gautier

Clément Stenac

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation ; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. The text of the license can be found in the appendix GNU Free Documentation License.

Abstract

This document is the complete user guide of VLC .


Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1. What is the VideoLAN project ?
1.1. Overview
1.2. VideoLAN software
2. What is a codec ?
3. How can I use VideoLAN ?
3.1. Documentation
3.2. User support
4. Command line usage
4.1. Open a terminal
2. Modules and options for VLC
1. The modules
2. Video outputs
2.1. x11
2.2. xvideo
2.3. sdl
2.4. directx
2.5. wingdi
2.6. fb
2.7. glide
2.8. mga
2.9. ggi
2.10. aa
2.11. svgalib
2.12. qte
3. Video filters modules
3.1. deinterlace
3.2. wall
3.3. distort
3.4. transform
3.5. invert
3.6. adjust
3.7. clone
3.8. crop
3.9. motionblur
4. Audio outputs
4.1. oss
4.2. alsa
4.3. esd
4.4. arts
4.5. waveout
4.6. coreaudio
4.7. sdl
5. Input modules
5.1. dvdplay
5.2. dvd
5.3. dvdread
5.4. vcd
5.5. cdda
5.6. http,ftp,udp,file,directory,mms
5.7. satellite
5.8. v4l
5.9. dvb
5.10. pvr
5.11. slp
6. Demuxers
6.1. avi
6.2. asf
6.3. aac
6.4. ogg
6.5. rawdv
6.6. dvbpsi
6.7. mp4
6.8. mkv
6.9. ps,ts
6.10. id3,m3u
7. Interface modules
7.1. wxwindows
7.2. skins
7.3. gtk
7.4. gnome
7.5. qt
7.6. kde
7.7. rc
7.8. http
7.9. ncurses
7.10. lirc
7.11. opie
7.12. gestures
7.13. joystick
8. Codec modules
8.1. a52
8.2. ffmpeg
8.3. vorbis
8.4. xvid
8.5. mad
8.6. libmpeg2
8.7. faad
8.8. tarkin
8.9. theora
8.10. cinepak
8.11. tremor
9. OS support modules
9.1. macosx
9.2. qnx
10. Miscellaneous
10.1. sout
10.2. test-suite
10.3. mozilla
10.4. xosd
11. Compilation Options
11.1. --disable-plugins
3. Installing VLC
1. Installing VLC
1.1. Windows
1.2. BeOS
1.3. Mac OS X
1.4. Debian GNU/Linux
1.5. Linux Mandrake
1.6. Linux Redhat
1.7. Compile the sources by yourself (for every other OS)
2. Uninstalling VLC
2.1. Windows
2.2. BeOS
2.3. Mac OS X
2.4. Debian GNU/Linux
2.5. GNU/Linux Redhat, Mandrake and SuSE
2.6. If you compiled VLC from sources
4. The command line interface
1. Introduction
2. Opening streams
2.1. Opening a file
2.2. Opening a DVD or VCD, or an audio CD
2.3. Start a network stream
3. Modules selection
4. Stream Output
4.1. Description of the stream output
4.2. Architecture and syntax
4.3. Description of the modules
4.4. Examples
5. Other Options
5.1. Audio options
5.2. Video options
5.3. Playlist options
5.4. Network options
5.5. CPU options
5.6. Miscellaneous options
5.7. Help options
5. The Mozilla plugin
1. Install the plugin
1.1. GNU/Linux Debian
1.2. Compile the sources yourself
2. Build HTML pages that use the plugin
A. GNU Free Documentation License
1. PREAMBLE
2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
3. VERBATIM COPYING
4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
5. MODIFICATIONS
6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
9. TRANSLATION
10. TERMINATION
11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

List of Figures

1.1. Global VideoLAN solution La solution VideoLAN globale
1.2. Windows terminal
1.3. Linux X terminal
1.4. Mac OS X terminal
1.5. BeOS terminal