Preferences
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See also: Vlc MacOS VLC Preferences and VSG:ResetPrefs
You can edit settings for VLC by navigating to the menu toolbar, selecting Tools, and selecting Preferences (or by pressing Ctrl+P).
- To save your preferences, click Save.
- To show more options, switch the Show settings radio button to All.
Configuration File
The preferences stated in the options are stored in a configuration file. There is one configuration file per user, stored at:
- Unix, Linux and BSD:
~/.config/vlc/vlcrc
since 0.9. Before it was:~/.vlc/vlcrc
- macOS:
~/Library/Preferences/org.videolan.vlc/vlcrc
- Windows:
%appdata%\vlc\vlcrc
is generic and is expanded to:- Windows 95/98/ME:
C:\Windows\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc
- Windows NT/2000/XP:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\vlc\vlcrc
- Windows Vista/7/8/10:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\vlcrc
- Windows 95/98/ME:
- When used from the command line, sometimes there are unintended conflicts with settings in the config file; to ignore the config file, use:
--ignore-config
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