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LSX MPEG Player

2005-10-11T03:44:59Z

KillaB:

The LSX-MPEG Player is a DirectShow? compatible filter for the playback of MPEG-1?, MPEG-2?, & MPEG-4? streams.
It is windows only and created by Ligos?.

For more information see:

* http://www.ligos.com/lsx_mpeg_player.htm

Gentoo

2005-10-11T03:37:27Z

KillaB: spam

Since version 0.6.0 and up VLC is distributed with an ebuild for the http://www.gentoo.org Portage system. This ebuild is not an official ebuild approved by Gentoo, but only a guideline for the Gentoo Maintainers. We hope that with our support, the Gentoo team will be able to respond faster to new releases and new features. But if you are confident enough, you can try to use it yourself. Instructions are always for the latest ebuild.

Some pointers

* The ebuild is located at the root of the .tar.gz package and called vlc-versionnr.ebuild
* If you want features, then be sure to set some USE variables. The following USE variables are supported: arts qt ncurses dvd gtk nls 3dfx matrox svga fbcon esd kde X alsa ggi oggvorbis gnome xv oss sdl fbcon aalib slp truetype v4l lirc wxwindows imlib matroska dvb pvr mozilla mad debug tcltk
* VLC links statically against CVS versions of http://ffmpeg.sf.net and http://mpeg2dec.sf.net . Current installations of these software packages will not be affected.
* the best interface is the [http://fat/wiki.videolan.org.old/WxWindows%20Interface|WxWindows Interface]. I suggest you prefix the emerge command with USE="wxwindows".
* for Video4Linux? support prefix your emerge command with USE="v4l" .
* for matroska support prefix your emerge command with USE="matroska" and be sure to have http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=63722&highlight=matroska
* if you want the [http://fat/wiki.videolan.org.old/Skinable%20Interface|Skinable Interface] then prefix your emerge command with USE="wxwindows imlib".

Installation

Back to [[Linux]]

Back to [[Main Page]]

* all the examples are with the 0.6.0 release.
* in your /etc/make.conf make sure PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage is added (uncommented).
* run: wget -P/usr/portage/distfiles http://www.videolan.org/pub/vlc/0.6.0/vlc-0.6.0.tar.bz2
* create /usr/local/portage/media-video
* create /usr/local/portage/media-video/vlc
* run: cd /usr/local/portage/media-video/vlc
* run: tar jxf /usr/portage/distfiles/vlc-0.6.0.tar.bz2 vlc-0.6.0/vlc-0.6.0.ebuild
* run: mv /usr/local/portage/media-video/vlc/vlc-0.6.0/vlc-0.6.0.ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-video/vlc/
* run: ebuild /usr/local/portage/media-video/vlc/vlc-0.6.0.ebuild digest
* run: emerge /usr/local/portage/media-video/vlc/vlc-0.6.0.ebuild

Linux

2005-10-11T03:34:32Z

KillaB:

==Graphical User Interfaces==

* The [[Skins|Skinnable Interface]]
* The [[WxWidgets Interface]]
* The [[Gnome Interface]]
* The [[Kde Interface]]
* [[Linux keyboard shortcuts]]
* [[Linux VLC FAQ]]
* [[Using ALSA]]

==Command line==
* [[ZSH Autocompletion]]

==Distributions specific stuff==

* [[GNU/Linux Debian]]
* [[RedHat|GNU/Linux RedHat]]
* [[GNU/Linux Mandriva (formerly Mandrake)]]
* [[Gentoo|GNU/Linux Gentoo]]
* Other [[distros |GNU/Linux distros]]

Windows

2005-10-11T03:30:21Z

KillaB:

The '''Windows port''' of VLC usually starts up with the [[WxWindows]] interface which is used in the [[Linux]] one as well. The user can decide to use the [[Skins]] interface instead to be able to modify the interface according to his or her mood.

==Keyboard shortcuts in the Windows (directx) video output==

Note: these shortcuts are only default settings and can be customized (along with many others). To tweak hotkeys settings, go to Settings->Preferences->Hot keys

* Left/Right/Up/Down/Enter: DVD menus navigation keys
* Page Up/Page Down: seek (10 secs)
* Home/End: Beginning/End of file
* Space: Pause/Play
* a/A/z/Z: Volume Control
* f/F: fullscreen
* q/Q: quit vlc
* Esc: exit fullscreen/Stop input

==How to associate media files to VLC==

'''Warning''': do this association only if you realy know what you are doing!

VLC hasn't got a module to associate files, so that if you click on a file VLC opens. But you can
do it by yourself, follow this istructions:

* Open a text editor like Notepad.

* Copy this text:
<pre>
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ASF]
@="VlcFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ASX]
@="VlcFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.AVI]
@="VlcFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.DIVX]
@="VlcFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.MPEG]
@="VlcFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.MPG]
@="VlcFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.VOB]
@="VlcFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.WMV]
@="VlcFile"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VlcFile]
@="VLC File"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VlcFile\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Programs\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VlcFile\shell\Open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VlcFile\shell\Open\command]
@="C:\\Programs\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe \"%L\""
</pre>

* Modify the strings ''C:\\Programs\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe'' to match to your VLC installation.

* Save as ''vlc.reg''.

* Execute ''vlc.reg'' (ad it to you registry).

* Enjoy VLC :)

'''Note''': This associate ''asf'', ''asx'', ''avi'', ''divx'', ''mpeg'', ''mpg'', ''vob'' and ''wmv'' files, if you get the idea you can associate any file you want.

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'''OR'''

You can also right-click the file you want to open with VLC, and then click Properties.

On the General tab, click Change.

Click the name of the program (VLC) in which you want the file to open.

This change affects all files that have the same file name extension as the file you selected. For example, if you change the program that opens a .jpg file, all .jpg files will open in this program.

You can also change the program that opens a file by right-clicking the file, clicking Open With, and then clicking the program name.

If VLC is not displayed, click Browse to locate it on your hard drive.

Alternatively, you can just associate media files on install.

== Related article ==
* [[VLC Windows FAQ]]
* [[VLC command-line help]]
* [[VLCSout]] how to create a DVD

Talk:VLC HowTo/Make a mosaic

2005-10-11T03:07:51Z

KillaB:

Hi all,
I was wondering if it was possible to use a 'dynamic'
background image, for example an image on which one
could read the hour ?

When you define the mosaic, is the background image
reloaded sometimes or just loaded once when starting ?

Several solutions are available :
1/ You can use several images with the switcher module (but i don't think those can be changed once the switcher module is launched)
2/ You can use another video stream as the background (instead of a fixed image). This image can be generated with VLC and you can use the marq, logo or time video filters that can be updated real time.

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I've set up the mosaic example and I run the example with:

./vlc -- color -- extraintf telnet -- vlm-conf ../custom_vlc/mosaic.vlc.conf

Some times the mosaic stay inside of the "window" wxWindow, and other times the mosaic stay outside of the "window" wxWindow. Somebody knows as to assert that the mosaic always stays inside of the "window" wxWindows?

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Would it be possible to compile a win32 binary with the older ffmpeg source so that mosaic can function under Windows?

I would really like to get this working and tried compiling under Mandriva LE 2005 but ran into too many troubles.