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Documentation:Modules/screen

2009-12-24T10:25:18Z

Ddaniels: /* Questions */

{{Module|name=screen|type=Access|description=screen capture}}

Stream or save a video of your computer screen.

== Options ==
{{Option
|name=screen-caching
|value=integer
|description=Time in milliseconds
}}

{{Option
|name=screen-fps
|value=integer
|default=0
|description=Capture frames per second
}}

{{Option
|name=screen-fragment-size
|value=integer
|default=0
|description=(Windows only) Optimize the capture by fragmenting the screen in chunks of predefined height (16 might be a good value, and 0 means disabled)
}}

{{Option
|name=screen-top
|value=integer
|default=0
|description=The top edge coordinate of the subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows)
}}

{{Option
|name=screen-left
|value=integer
|default=0
|description=The left edge coordinate of the subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows)
}}

{{Option
|name=screen-width
|value=integer
|default=<full screen width>
|description=The width of the subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows)
}}

{{Option
|name=screen-height
|value=integer
|default=<full screen height>
|description=The height of the subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows)
}}

{{Option
|name=screen-follow-mouse, no-screen-follow-mouse
|default=no-screen-follow-mouse
|description=Follow the mouse when capturing a subscreen. (New in VLC 0.9.0 on x11, New in VLC 1.0.0 on Windows)
}}

{{Option
|name=screen-mouse-image
|value=filename
|default=""
|description=Mouse pointer image to use. If specified, the pointer will be overlayed on the captured video. (New in VLC 1.0.0, Windows and x11 only)
}}

Run...
% '''vlc -H'''
...for the definitive options for your version.

== Example ==
Capture a screen:
% '''vlc screen:// --screen-fps=1 --screen-width=100 --screen-height=100'''
The screen thus captured is 100x100 pixels in from the top left corner of the active screen.

===Questions ===

How to save?

Where is the file saved?

How to get audio to work?

On a dual head monitor, how to make sure the recording is happening on target monitor?

=== Commands I've used ===
vlc screen:// --dshow-fps=29.950001 --nooverlay --sout #transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=800, scale=0.5,acodec=mp3,ab=128,channels=2} :duplicate{dst=std{access=file, mux=mp4,dst=/home/user/Desktop/test.flv}}

Produced a black screen... on my Fedora 12 machine.

{{Stub}}

{{Documentation}}

Documentation:Modules/screen

2009-12-23T11:35:10Z

Ddaniels: /* Example */ lots of questions

VLC HowTo/Play multiple instances

2007-01-23T20:35:05Z

Ddaniels: took me a while but now I've got it

In version .8.5 it was easy to have multiple instances of VLC playing each with its unique stream of data.

In version .8.6x playing multiple VLC instances and different streams in each is as easy as clicking on preferences>
* Advanced
** Allow only one running instance
::This allows users to use more than one VLC player at a time. Once you've done the above you should be able to play as many VLC instances and video or audio files as you like.

== See also ==
* '''See also [[:Category:How To]]'''
[[Category:How To]]

{{Stub}}

Simple Preferences

2007-01-23T20:33:51Z

Ddaniels: /* Now, proceed */

See discussion please (lets try to keep this page readable :) )

== Read this first ==

The current preferences use a tree that matches the vlc internal mechanisms.
The new preferences don't have to use this tree. We can use whatever we want. My first thought is a 1-level sorting, with the main topics displayed with images on the left pane and preferences pages on the right pane.

We can select preferences items one by one, we don't need the full pages that are currently used

VLC definitively needs a "simple" preferences window. Here is a list of some of the settings which would be needed:

== Now, proceed ==

(?) = to be decided

* Audio
** Enable Audio
** Default audio volume
** Use S/PDIF when available
** Force detection of Dolby surround
*** Filters
**** Equalizer
***** Equalizer preset
**** Headphone effect
**** Volume normalizer
**** Parmetric equalizer
*** Output modules (?) -- Disagree. Only needs to be modified in case of problems -- [[User:Zorglub]] --> It's still one of the options which many people have to change, having it handy will be usefull -- [[User:DJ]]. If we show it up, we should only include really useful modules, like DirectX/Waveout only for aout under windows. Don't show file and dummy for instance [[User:Zorglub]]
*** DirectX Audio output -- It'd be best to not have any "module specific" option in these simple prefs. We could have an "Output device" option ... which could be shared by each of the audio output modules. -- [[User:Dionoea]]. Very hard to do. Much simpler is to ask for all of them to show. Only those compiled in will show up. Very easy. [[User:Zorglub]]
**** Output device
*** Visualizations

* Video
** Enable video output
** Full screen video output
** Skip Frames (?)
** Overlay video output
** Always on top
** Video snapshot directory
** Video snapshot format
** aspect ratio (?) -- Disagree. Is a seldom used function -- [[User:DJ]]
** Windows decorations (?)
*** Video filters
*** Output module -- Disagree. Only needs to be modified in case of problems -- [[User:Zorglub]] --> It's still one of the options which many people have to change, having it handy will be usefull -- [[User:Dionoea]]
**** Image file
**** Open GL
**** DirectX
***** Name of desired display device
***** Enable wallpaper mode (?)

* Input / Codecs
** Audio language
** Subtitle language
** DVD device
** VCD device
** Audio CD device
** UDP port -- err ... what does that mean ? -- [[User:Dionoea]]

* Stream output
** Keep stream output open (?) -- That shouldn't be in the prefs but in the stream configuration wizards and dialogs -- [[User:Dionoea]] Is there basic cases where we don't want to keep it open. I would be to changed the default to true in libvlc -- [[User:Xtophe|Xtophe]]

* Advanced
** Allow only one running instance
::This allows users to use more than one VLC player at a time.
** Allow only one running instance when started from file (?) -- i kind of agree with ipkiss that this option shouldn't exist anyway ... i guess that i'll remove it and change the default value for "Allow only one running instance". People who want more than one instance can change the prefs -- [[User:Dionoea]].. NOoooo please don't. Current behaviour is optimal (but we certainly don't want to show this in simple prefs) ! [[User:Zorglub]]
** Enqueue items to playlist when in one instance mode

* Playlist -- Do these options really need to be in the prefs ? couldn't we just leave them in the playlist dialog/main controller and remember the state when quiting ? -- [[User:Dionoea]]. These options are indeed useless here. Just add change_autosave() on them [[User:Zorglub]]
** Play files randomly forever
** Repeat all
** Repeat current item
** Play and stop

* Interface
** Language
** Show advanced options -- This is "Complex preferences" specific so it shouldn't be in the "simple prefs" -- [[User:Dionoea]]

** ffmpeg-hq ? -- Is this out of place? I can't find it in this context -- [[User:DJ]]. It's currently not in video, but codecs, but we are free to put whatever we want wherever. [[User:Zorglub]]. Isn't that going to get kinda confusing? [[User:DJ]]. Nope :) [[User:Zorglub]]

* Subtitles
** default encoding
** size
** color
** font

* HTTP proxy
* HTTP caching -- why would we only include http caching and not all other caching options ? -- [[User:Dionoea]] Because that's almost the only one people will really want to change. We might want to add MMS. [[User:Zorglub]]

[[Category:VLC GUI]]

User talk:Ddaniels

2007-01-23T18:26:20Z

Ddaniels:

How to get multiple instances of VLC to run? Anyone? --[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 19:26, 23 January 2007 (CET)

Talk:Simple Preferences

2007-01-23T18:25:15Z

Ddaniels:

I though that this was about "simple prefs". We don't need to replicate the whole tree structure and include options which 99.9% of the users don't use or understand.
In my opinion, simple prefs should look like firefox's preferences: several tabs/categories (less than 10) with about 5 to 20 options each.
[[User:Dionoea|Dionoea]] 15:02, 12 June 2006 (CEST)

* ffmpeg-hq ? -- Is this out of place? I can't find it in this context -- [[User:DJ]]. It's currently not in video, but codecs, but we are free to put whatever we want wherever. [[User:Zorglub]]. Isn't that going to get kinda confusing? [[User:DJ]]. Nope :) [[User:Zorglub]] Given that it's not in that context either and the only thing that's close is FFmpeg's -- "Post processing quality", I believe you have just proven my point. You maybe free to do what you want, but is it prudent and or wise, or can others understand it? :) -- [[User:DJ]]

I will agree with the basic premise, VLC needs a simple preferences menu. But if you can't see the current tree of simple preferences as they exist presently how can you have the discussion as to include them or not? There also maybe a few that are not now in the simple preferences that should be or a few that best be handled in a different way or done away with entirely. But how can you see them to be able to relate to them or know out of context? Plus the fact that you will never be sure that you have reviewed them all and the new simple preferences will go through several changes while the end user is still confused and or ends up locking down the advanced options. -- [[User:DJ]] I disagree we all work enough with VLC to know the preference menu almost by heart and have VLC installed to check if needed (and that differ between OS and build). Now, with every thing, how do you see which pref is to be included in "the simple preferences" ?!? [[User:Xtophe|Xtophe]] Considering you know it so well you should realize, only the simple preferences are here. -- [[User:DJ]]

Perhaps going through the tree and marking everything that can't or shouldn't be changed would make it easier to see and find things. -- [[User:DJ]]

I'm not trying to be presumptuous here, but if you can't see the current representation of the simple preferences how can you know which ones to include or exclude for an understandable discussion with a reasonable end result? [[User:DJ]]

User Prefs for multiple instances of VLC playing different streams---where is it? How do I activate it? I've checked forums and docs but so far no luck...--[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 09:34, 21 January 2007 (CET)
:Anybody? I'm trying to get a video show going for a friend's party and having multiple streams was a big part of the visuals... VLC used to be able to do it...--[[User:Ddaniels|Ddaniels]] 19:25, 23 January 2007 (CET)

VLC HowTo/Play multiple instances

2007-01-21T08:41:20Z

Ddaniels:

In version .8.5 it was easy to have multiple instances of VLC playing each with its unique stream of data.

In version .8.6x playing multiple VLC instances and different streams in each is as easy as clicking on [insert instructions here] and then [insert instructions here] Once you've done the above you should be able to play as many VLC instances and video or audio files as you like.

This article is a stub.

== See also ==
* '''See also [[:Category:How To]]'''
[[Category:How To]]

VLC HowTo/Play multiple instances

2007-01-21T08:39:58Z

Ddaniels:

In version .8.5 it was easy to have multiple instances of VLC playing each with its unique stream of data.

In version .8.6x playing multiple VLC instances and different streams in each is as easy as clicking on [insert instructions here] and then [insert instructions here] Once you've done the above you should be able to play as many VLC instances and video or audio files as you like.

This article is a stub.

Talk:Simple Preferences

2007-01-21T08:34:45Z

Ddaniels:

What can VLC do?

2007-01-21T06:53:38Z

Ddaniels: /* Announce What's Playing to IRC */ more grammar and spelling fixes

This area of the wiki contains a list with the possibilities {{VLC}} gives you. It was made to help people better realize the potential {{VLC}} has. Some entries will simply mention the possibility, others try to explain how to do it as well. Let me start by apologising for my horrible spelling, but I hope you will be able to decipher the texts anyway.

== Mediaplayer ==

=== Compact Disc (CD) Images ===
If you have a [[CD-DA]] (audio CD), [[SVCD]], or [[VCD]] packaged inside a CD-image, in some cases [[VLC media player]] can play this without you having to mount it or extract it. You can simply choose "open file" and pick the CD-image. For CD-image support vlc has to be [[compile]]d using [[libcdio]] (<tt>--enable-libcdio</tt>) and the various plugins which use libcdio need to be selected (<tt>--enable-cddax</tt>, <tt>--enable-vcdx</tt>). Some of these enablements may not be the default for your OS.

The kinds of Compact Disc formats supported are CDRWIN's BIN/CUE format, cdrdao's TOC format, and a limited set of Nero (NRG) formats.

(''[[libcdio]] also supports ISO-9660 image reading but at present there is no VLC access plugin which uses it. DVD's images follow the UDF format and at present there is no support in libcdio for that, although some limited progress has been made in that direction. It is possible that will get added in the future; volunteers are most welcome).

=== How to enable/use subtitles ===
Before you try to enable [[subtitle]]s make sure the subtitles you have are in a format that VLC can read! You can find the list of compatible subtitle formats [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html here].
If VLC has detected any sort of subtitles available, you will be able to turn them on under the menu: ''Video->Subtitles track->Track 1''

Auto detection of subtitle files uses a 'fuzzy' logic which you can specify. If this is wrongly specified you may end up with more subtitle file options than really exist or miss some that are provided. By default it allows any file in the right place which exactly matches the video name, and may have some extra characters. If you are not seeing the number of subtitle options you expect you might want to allow more 'fuzziness' by changing the preference in video/subtitles/subtitle autodetection where help is available if you 'hover' over the field.

If you mainly use .srt subtitles or .sub, you can get them turned on automatically when they are detected, by setting the ''Input/Codecs->Advanced->Choose subtitle track'' to 0, it will automatically turn on the subtitle track. You can also experiment with the ''Choose subtitle language'' on the same page. But if you experiment a bit with the settings you should be able to get subtitles turned on automatically.

'''Note:''' On Mac OS X, the "Video->Subtitles track" menu item is permanently disabled for some reason. You must manually specify the location of the subtitles file in the "Subpictures" pane of the preferences.

=== Playing windows media files ===
VLC should be able to succesfully play both audio and video in wma and wmv 1 and 2, for the newest version (wmv3) only the windows version of vlc will be able to play it, since no opensource implementation of wmv3 have been made so far, so the windows vlc plays it by using the windows api. DRM files however can not be played on any OS.

=== How to adjust picture brightness/colors/contrast.. ===
'''If you are using the wxwindows userinterface:'''
You can adjust the typical values to tweak the picture of your video source by turning on the extended GUI. This is done in the menu: ''Settings->Extended GUI''. That will give you some extended control options for the video picture as well as an equalizer for the audio. Before it actual works though, you have to enable the filters under the preferences->video

'''If you use Mac OS X or a skinned version of VLC:'''
You need to enter the preference menu: ''Settings->Preferences''. Once you have the preferences window open you go to: Video->Filters->Image adjust. Here you can adjust the different values. Note before they take effect you need to turn on the "Image adjust" filter in: Video->Filters

=== How to control the aspect ratio of the video ===
Using VLC, you can override the source aspect ratio. This is available both as a command line option and as an option in the Preference dialog in the graphical interface. The aspect ratio can be specified both in ratio format (16:9) or as a decimal number (1.33).

'''Command Line'''

When invoking VLC from the command line, use the option --aspect-ratio. For instance,

vlc --aspect-ratio 1.85

'''Graphical Interface'''

If using the graphical interface, the setting is In the Video section of the Preferences dialog. You may specify the aspect ratio in the field labeled "Source aspect ratio."

Here is a list of the more common aspect ratios.

* Fullscreen: 1.33 or 4:3
* Widescreen: 1.78 or 16:9
* Typical DVD: 1.85
* Cinemascope: 2.35

=== Announce What's Playing to IRC ===
Announce the currently playing track to mirc (an irc client). This is often referred to as a "now playing" script. To be able to get this functionality with vlc one aproach would be to use the HTTP interface. With it you can create a simple file which will display "'Artist' with the song 'Title' from the album 'Album' the genre is 'Genre'" on a page in ur browser. You can then pull that page from mirc with standard sockets and thereby use the text in a script in mirc. Below I will provide some VERY simple and very ugly examples on how you could use this. The examples are tested with vlc 0.8.5 and mirc 6.12. I can't guarantee the code work with any other versions (although it most likely will). Ok so here we go. You start with create a test.html file in the http interface directory (C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http) inside this file paste the following to ONE line or it will not work:

<pre>
ANNOUNCE <vlc id="value" param1="'ARTIST' vlc_get_meta"/>
with the song <vlc id="value" param1="'TITLE' vlc_get_meta"/>
from the album <vlc id="value" param1="'ALBUM' vlc_get_meta"/>
, The genre is <vlc id="value" param1="'Genre' vlc_get_meta"/>
</pre>

Remember to leave an empty line behind the actual line of code, vlc/mirc seems to want this.
Then you must create a script in mirc under remote (alt+r) and paste in the following:

<pre>
alias now {
sockopen vlc_meta_info 127.0.0.1 8082
}

on *:SOCKOPEN:vlc_meta_info: {
sockwrite -n $sockname GET /test.html HTTP/1.1
sockwrite -n $sockname Host: localhost
;sockwrite -n $sockname Connection: Keep-Alive
sockwrite -n $sockname $crlf
sockwrite -n $sockname $null
}

on *:sockread:vlc_meta_info: {
if ($sockerr > 0) return
:nextread
sockread %temp
if ($sockbr == 0) return
if (%temp == $null) %temp = ---
if (ANNOUNCE isin %temp) {
%temp = $remove(%temp,ANNOUNCE )
describe $active is listening to %temp
}
goto nextread

sockclose vlc_meta_info
}
</pre>

Only things u might want to change is the port the http interface listens on, thats the first line and is port 8082 in my case. You might also want some other text than "is listening to" just change as you see fit.

Thats poretty much it. You should enable the http interface in vlc by default if u wanna use this on a regular basis. This is done under preferences in "Interface->Main interfaces"

Then with all thisa done (and vlc restarted) you can type /now in mirc and it will display ur currently playing track.

This was made for mp3 tracks, so if it doesnt work with other types of media let me know.
You can reach me at: jonas (at) vrt.dk
(Im also regularly in the freenode videolan channel, nickname E-bola)

== Now Playing Script for mIRC by Inf3rn0 ==
Script and help for Inf3rn0's Now Playing script here: [http://www.home.no/inf3rn0/NowPlaying/]

Based on E-Bola's Now Playing script.

== Streaming - client ==

=== Listen to online radio ===
You can of course always simply find a link to a radiostream and then open it as you would any other network stream in VLC. But if you would like to browse a list of online radios, you can try the list of shoutcast radio stations VLC can download for you. First you need top open the playlist window: View->Playlist. Once you have the playlist window open chose: ''Manage->Service discovery->Shoutcast radio listings''. After 10 seconds or so the playlist should have become populated by radio station entries. You obviously require internet access for this to work! If you want the stations sorted alphabetically, you can chose: ''Sort->Sort by title''. Also note shoutcast have many thousands stream availeble, per default in 0.8.2 250 stations are downloaded, this can be changed in the preferences under: Playlist->Service discovery->Shoutcast. Note that the more stations u want to add, the longer delay u will see when the station list is downloaded parsed and added to the playlist. Also note you should see 2 "Folder nodes" in the playlist under shoutcast called Genres and bitrate where the stations will be listed under their respective areas. Note that most stations claim to be multi genre, so a station might be listed under both Top40, pop and rock.

== Streaming - server ==

=== VLM ===

The VLM is the Video On Demand part of the VLC streaming server features. It lets you setup a bunch of entries and then let users ask for those streams and it then gives them to the users, it has A LOT of possibilities and I will try to cover them all here.

You can divide VLM entries into 2 general categories VOD and broadcast entries.

What can VLC do?

2007-01-21T06:52:06Z

Ddaniels: /* VLM */ spelling and grammar fixes

This area of the wiki contains a list with the possibilities {{VLC}} gives you. It was made to help people better realize the potential {{VLC}} has. Some entries will simply mention the possibility, others try to explain how to do it as well. Let me start by apologising for my horrible spelling, but I hope you will be able to decipher the texts anyway.

== Mediaplayer ==

=== Compact Disc (CD) Images ===
If you have a [[CD-DA]] (audio CD), [[SVCD]], or [[VCD]] packaged inside a CD-image, in some cases [[VLC media player]] can play this without you having to mount it or extract it. You can simply choose "open file" and pick the CD-image. For CD-image support vlc has to be [[compile]]d using [[libcdio]] (<tt>--enable-libcdio</tt>) and the various plugins which use libcdio need to be selected (<tt>--enable-cddax</tt>, <tt>--enable-vcdx</tt>). Some of these enablements may not be the default for your OS.

The kinds of Compact Disc formats supported are CDRWIN's BIN/CUE format, cdrdao's TOC format, and a limited set of Nero (NRG) formats.

(''[[libcdio]] also supports ISO-9660 image reading but at present there is no VLC access plugin which uses it. DVD's images follow the UDF format and at present there is no support in libcdio for that, although some limited progress has been made in that direction. It is possible that will get added in the future; volunteers are most welcome).

=== How to enable/use subtitles ===
Before you try to enable [[subtitle]]s make sure the subtitles you have are in a format that VLC can read! You can find the list of compatible subtitle formats [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html here].
If VLC has detected any sort of subtitles available, you will be able to turn them on under the menu: ''Video->Subtitles track->Track 1''

Auto detection of subtitle files uses a 'fuzzy' logic which you can specify. If this is wrongly specified you may end up with more subtitle file options than really exist or miss some that are provided. By default it allows any file in the right place which exactly matches the video name, and may have some extra characters. If you are not seeing the number of subtitle options you expect you might want to allow more 'fuzziness' by changing the preference in video/subtitles/subtitle autodetection where help is available if you 'hover' over the field.

If you mainly use .srt subtitles or .sub, you can get them turned on automatically when they are detected, by setting the ''Input/Codecs->Advanced->Choose subtitle track'' to 0, it will automatically turn on the subtitle track. You can also experiment with the ''Choose subtitle language'' on the same page. But if you experiment a bit with the settings you should be able to get subtitles turned on automatically.

'''Note:''' On Mac OS X, the "Video->Subtitles track" menu item is permanently disabled for some reason. You must manually specify the location of the subtitles file in the "Subpictures" pane of the preferences.

=== Playing windows media files ===
VLC should be able to succesfully play both audio and video in wma and wmv 1 and 2, for the newest version (wmv3) only the windows version of vlc will be able to play it, since no opensource implementation of wmv3 have been made so far, so the windows vlc plays it by using the windows api. DRM files however can not be played on any OS.

=== How to adjust picture brightness/colors/contrast.. ===
'''If you are using the wxwindows userinterface:'''
You can adjust the typical values to tweak the picture of your video source by turning on the extended GUI. This is done in the menu: ''Settings->Extended GUI''. That will give you some extended control options for the video picture as well as an equalizer for the audio. Before it actual works though, you have to enable the filters under the preferences->video

'''If you use Mac OS X or a skinned version of VLC:'''
You need to enter the preference menu: ''Settings->Preferences''. Once you have the preferences window open you go to: Video->Filters->Image adjust. Here you can adjust the different values. Note before they take effect you need to turn on the "Image adjust" filter in: Video->Filters

=== How to control the aspect ratio of the video ===
Using VLC, you can override the source aspect ratio. This is available both as a command line option and as an option in the Preference dialog in the graphical interface. The aspect ratio can be specified both in ratio format (16:9) or as a decimal number (1.33).

'''Command Line'''

When invoking VLC from the command line, use the option --aspect-ratio. For instance,

vlc --aspect-ratio 1.85

'''Graphical Interface'''

If using the graphical interface, the setting is In the Video section of the Preferences dialog. You may specify the aspect ratio in the field labeled "Source aspect ratio."

Here is a list of the more common aspect ratios.

* Fullscreen: 1.33 or 4:3
* Widescreen: 1.78 or 16:9
* Typical DVD: 1.85
* Cinemascope: 2.35

=== Announce What's Playing to IRC ===
Announce the currently playing track to mirc (an irc client). This is often referred to as a "now playing" script. To be able to get this functionality with vlc one aproach would be to use the http interface. With it you can create a simple file which will display "'Artist' with the song 'Title' from the album 'Album' the genre is 'Genre'" on a page in ur browser. You can then pull that page from mirc with standard sockets and thereby use the text in a script in mirc. Below i will provide some VERY simple and very ugly examples on how you could use this. The examples are tested with vlc 0.8.5 and mirc 6.12. I cant guarantee the code work with any other versions (although it most likely will). Ok so here we go. You start with create a test.html file in the http interface directory (C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http) inside this file paste the following to ONE line or it will not work:

<pre>
ANNOUNCE <vlc id="value" param1="'ARTIST' vlc_get_meta"/>
with the song <vlc id="value" param1="'TITLE' vlc_get_meta"/>
from the album <vlc id="value" param1="'ALBUM' vlc_get_meta"/>
, The genre is <vlc id="value" param1="'Genre' vlc_get_meta"/>
</pre>

Remember to leave an empty line behind the actual line of code, vlc/mirc seems to want this.
Then you must create a script in mirc under remote (alt+r) and paste in the following:

<pre>
alias now {
sockopen vlc_meta_info 127.0.0.1 8082
}

on *:SOCKOPEN:vlc_meta_info: {
sockwrite -n $sockname GET /test.html HTTP/1.1
sockwrite -n $sockname Host: localhost
;sockwrite -n $sockname Connection: Keep-Alive
sockwrite -n $sockname $crlf
sockwrite -n $sockname $null
}

on *:sockread:vlc_meta_info: {
if ($sockerr > 0) return
:nextread
sockread %temp
if ($sockbr == 0) return
if (%temp == $null) %temp = ---
if (ANNOUNCE isin %temp) {
%temp = $remove(%temp,ANNOUNCE )
describe $active is listening to %temp
}
goto nextread

sockclose vlc_meta_info
}
</pre>

Only things u might want to change is the port the http interface listens on, thats the first line and is port 8082 in my case. You might also want some other text than "is listening to" just change as you see fit.

Thats poretty much it. You should enable the http interface in vlc by default if u wanna use this on a regular basis. This is done under preferences in "Interface->Main interfaces"

Then with all thisa done (and vlc restarted) you can type /now in mirc and it will display ur currently playing track.

This was made for mp3 tracks, so if it doesnt work with other types of media let me know.
You can reach me at: jonas (at) vrt.dk
(Im also regularly in the freenode videolan channel, nickname E-bola)

== Now Playing Script for mIRC by Inf3rn0 ==
Script and help for Inf3rn0's Now Playing script here: [http://www.home.no/inf3rn0/NowPlaying/]

Based on E-Bola's Now Playing script.

== Streaming - client ==

=== Listen to online radio ===
You can of course always simply find a link to a radiostream and then open it as you would any other network stream in VLC. But if you would like to browse a list of online radios, you can try the list of shoutcast radio stations VLC can download for you. First you need top open the playlist window: View->Playlist. Once you have the playlist window open chose: ''Manage->Service discovery->Shoutcast radio listings''. After 10 seconds or so the playlist should have become populated by radio station entries. You obviously require internet access for this to work! If you want the stations sorted alphabetically, you can chose: ''Sort->Sort by title''. Also note shoutcast have many thousands stream availeble, per default in 0.8.2 250 stations are downloaded, this can be changed in the preferences under: Playlist->Service discovery->Shoutcast. Note that the more stations u want to add, the longer delay u will see when the station list is downloaded parsed and added to the playlist. Also note you should see 2 "Folder nodes" in the playlist under shoutcast called Genres and bitrate where the stations will be listed under their respective areas. Note that most stations claim to be multi genre, so a station might be listed under both Top40, pop and rock.

== Streaming - server ==

=== VLM ===

The VLM is the Video On Demand part of the VLC streaming server features. It lets you setup a bunch of entries and then let users ask for those streams and it then gives them to the users, it has A LOT of possibilities and I will try to cover them all here.

You can divide VLM entries into 2 general categories VOD and broadcast entries.

What can VLC do?

2007-01-21T06:51:09Z

Ddaniels: /* Announce whats playing to IRC */ grammar fix

This area of the wiki contains a list with the possibilities {{VLC}} gives you. It was made to help people better realize the potential {{VLC}} has. Some entries will simply mention the possibility, others try to explain how to do it as well. Let me start by apologising for my horrible spelling, but I hope you will be able to decipher the texts anyway.

== Mediaplayer ==

=== Compact Disc (CD) Images ===
If you have a [[CD-DA]] (audio CD), [[SVCD]], or [[VCD]] packaged inside a CD-image, in some cases [[VLC media player]] can play this without you having to mount it or extract it. You can simply choose "open file" and pick the CD-image. For CD-image support vlc has to be [[compile]]d using [[libcdio]] (<tt>--enable-libcdio</tt>) and the various plugins which use libcdio need to be selected (<tt>--enable-cddax</tt>, <tt>--enable-vcdx</tt>). Some of these enablements may not be the default for your OS.

The kinds of Compact Disc formats supported are CDRWIN's BIN/CUE format, cdrdao's TOC format, and a limited set of Nero (NRG) formats.

(''[[libcdio]] also supports ISO-9660 image reading but at present there is no VLC access plugin which uses it. DVD's images follow the UDF format and at present there is no support in libcdio for that, although some limited progress has been made in that direction. It is possible that will get added in the future; volunteers are most welcome).

=== How to enable/use subtitles ===
Before you try to enable [[subtitle]]s make sure the subtitles you have are in a format that VLC can read! You can find the list of compatible subtitle formats [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html here].
If VLC has detected any sort of subtitles available, you will be able to turn them on under the menu: ''Video->Subtitles track->Track 1''

Auto detection of subtitle files uses a 'fuzzy' logic which you can specify. If this is wrongly specified you may end up with more subtitle file options than really exist or miss some that are provided. By default it allows any file in the right place which exactly matches the video name, and may have some extra characters. If you are not seeing the number of subtitle options you expect you might want to allow more 'fuzziness' by changing the preference in video/subtitles/subtitle autodetection where help is available if you 'hover' over the field.

If you mainly use .srt subtitles or .sub, you can get them turned on automatically when they are detected, by setting the ''Input/Codecs->Advanced->Choose subtitle track'' to 0, it will automatically turn on the subtitle track. You can also experiment with the ''Choose subtitle language'' on the same page. But if you experiment a bit with the settings you should be able to get subtitles turned on automatically.

'''Note:''' On Mac OS X, the "Video->Subtitles track" menu item is permanently disabled for some reason. You must manually specify the location of the subtitles file in the "Subpictures" pane of the preferences.

=== Playing windows media files ===
VLC should be able to succesfully play both audio and video in wma and wmv 1 and 2, for the newest version (wmv3) only the windows version of vlc will be able to play it, since no opensource implementation of wmv3 have been made so far, so the windows vlc plays it by using the windows api. DRM files however can not be played on any OS.

=== How to adjust picture brightness/colors/contrast.. ===
'''If you are using the wxwindows userinterface:'''
You can adjust the typical values to tweak the picture of your video source by turning on the extended GUI. This is done in the menu: ''Settings->Extended GUI''. That will give you some extended control options for the video picture as well as an equalizer for the audio. Before it actual works though, you have to enable the filters under the preferences->video

'''If you use Mac OS X or a skinned version of VLC:'''
You need to enter the preference menu: ''Settings->Preferences''. Once you have the preferences window open you go to: Video->Filters->Image adjust. Here you can adjust the different values. Note before they take effect you need to turn on the "Image adjust" filter in: Video->Filters

=== How to control the aspect ratio of the video ===
Using VLC, you can override the source aspect ratio. This is available both as a command line option and as an option in the Preference dialog in the graphical interface. The aspect ratio can be specified both in ratio format (16:9) or as a decimal number (1.33).

'''Command Line'''

When invoking VLC from the command line, use the option --aspect-ratio. For instance,

vlc --aspect-ratio 1.85

'''Graphical Interface'''

If using the graphical interface, the setting is In the Video section of the Preferences dialog. You may specify the aspect ratio in the field labeled "Source aspect ratio."

Here is a list of the more common aspect ratios.

* Fullscreen: 1.33 or 4:3
* Widescreen: 1.78 or 16:9
* Typical DVD: 1.85
* Cinemascope: 2.35

=== Announce What's Playing to IRC ===
Announce the currently playing track to mirc (an irc client). This is often referred to as a "now playing" script. To be able to get this functionality with vlc one aproach would be to use the http interface. With it you can create a simple file which will display "'Artist' with the song 'Title' from the album 'Album' the genre is 'Genre'" on a page in ur browser. You can then pull that page from mirc with standard sockets and thereby use the text in a script in mirc. Below i will provide some VERY simple and very ugly examples on how you could use this. The examples are tested with vlc 0.8.5 and mirc 6.12. I cant guarantee the code work with any other versions (although it most likely will). Ok so here we go. You start with create a test.html file in the http interface directory (C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http) inside this file paste the following to ONE line or it will not work:

<pre>
ANNOUNCE <vlc id="value" param1="'ARTIST' vlc_get_meta"/>
with the song <vlc id="value" param1="'TITLE' vlc_get_meta"/>
from the album <vlc id="value" param1="'ALBUM' vlc_get_meta"/>
, The genre is <vlc id="value" param1="'Genre' vlc_get_meta"/>
</pre>

Remember to leave an empty line behind the actual line of code, vlc/mirc seems to want this.
Then you must create a script in mirc under remote (alt+r) and paste in the following:

<pre>
alias now {
sockopen vlc_meta_info 127.0.0.1 8082
}

on *:SOCKOPEN:vlc_meta_info: {
sockwrite -n $sockname GET /test.html HTTP/1.1
sockwrite -n $sockname Host: localhost
;sockwrite -n $sockname Connection: Keep-Alive
sockwrite -n $sockname $crlf
sockwrite -n $sockname $null
}

on *:sockread:vlc_meta_info: {
if ($sockerr > 0) return
:nextread
sockread %temp
if ($sockbr == 0) return
if (%temp == $null) %temp = ---
if (ANNOUNCE isin %temp) {
%temp = $remove(%temp,ANNOUNCE )
describe $active is listening to %temp
}
goto nextread

sockclose vlc_meta_info
}
</pre>

Only things u might want to change is the port the http interface listens on, thats the first line and is port 8082 in my case. You might also want some other text than "is listening to" just change as you see fit.

Thats poretty much it. You should enable the http interface in vlc by default if u wanna use this on a regular basis. This is done under preferences in "Interface->Main interfaces"

Then with all thisa done (and vlc restarted) you can type /now in mirc and it will display ur currently playing track.

This was made for mp3 tracks, so if it doesnt work with other types of media let me know.
You can reach me at: jonas (at) vrt.dk
(Im also regularly in the freenode videolan channel, nickname E-bola)

== Now Playing Script for mIRC by Inf3rn0 ==
Script and help for Inf3rn0's Now Playing script here: [http://www.home.no/inf3rn0/NowPlaying/]

Based on E-Bola's Now Playing script.

== Streaming - client ==

=== Listen to online radio ===
You can of course always simply find a link to a radiostream and then open it as you would any other network stream in VLC. But if you would like to browse a list of online radios, you can try the list of shoutcast radio stations VLC can download for you. First you need top open the playlist window: View->Playlist. Once you have the playlist window open chose: ''Manage->Service discovery->Shoutcast radio listings''. After 10 seconds or so the playlist should have become populated by radio station entries. You obviously require internet access for this to work! If you want the stations sorted alphabetically, you can chose: ''Sort->Sort by title''. Also note shoutcast have many thousands stream availeble, per default in 0.8.2 250 stations are downloaded, this can be changed in the preferences under: Playlist->Service discovery->Shoutcast. Note that the more stations u want to add, the longer delay u will see when the station list is downloaded parsed and added to the playlist. Also note you should see 2 "Folder nodes" in the playlist under shoutcast called Genres and bitrate where the stations will be listed under their respective areas. Note that most stations claim to be multi genre, so a station might be listed under both Top40, pop and rock.

== Streaming - server ==

=== VLM ===

The VLM is the Video On Demand part of the VLC streaming server features. It lets u setup a bunch of entries and then let users ask for those streams and it then gives them to the users, it has A LOT of possibilities and i will try to cover them all here.

You can devide VLM entries into 2 general categories VOD and broadcast entries.