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The modular nature of vlc allows you to do quite strange and unusual things with it. This page tries to list some funny and insane uses | The modular nature of vlc allows you to do quite strange and unusual things with it. This page tries to list some funny and insane uses | ||
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| + | == Caca and Goom == | ||
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| + | If you have vlc compiled with both caca and goom you can listen to music with [[caca]] rendering the output of [[goom]]. That means you can show the visualisations from an audio file as colour ASCII art! Try something like this: | ||
| + | vlc --audio-filter goom --vout caca somemusic.mp3 | ||
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| + | == Encoding Lots of Files == | ||
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| + | This command shows how to encode a whole directory of files in Linux, without your input. When complete, it'll show a message to say it is complete. It's a single command split over several lines (with \) | ||
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| + | for A in *.avi; do \ | ||
| + | echo ************************* $A ********************* ;\ | ||
| + | vlc --sout-all "$A" :sout="#transcode{...}:\ | ||
| + | std{access=file,mux=avi,url=~/$A.avi}" \ | ||
| + | vlc:quit -I dummy ;\ | ||
| + | done ;\ | ||
| + | Xdialog --title 'Complete' --msgbox 'All done' 0 0; | ||
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| + | Make sure you really understand this command before using it. It's also a good idea to make sure you've got the right options in the transcode bit, and that it'll transcode the right files. The output is sent to your home folder in this example. | ||
Revision as of 22:43, 14 January 2006
The modular nature of vlc allows you to do quite strange and unusual things with it. This page tries to list some funny and insane uses
Caca and Goom
If you have vlc compiled with both caca and goom you can listen to music with caca rendering the output of goom. That means you can show the visualisations from an audio file as colour ASCII art! Try something like this:
vlc --audio-filter goom --vout caca somemusic.mp3
Encoding Lots of Files
This command shows how to encode a whole directory of files in Linux, without your input. When complete, it'll show a message to say it is complete. It's a single command split over several lines (with \)
for A in *.avi; do \
echo ************************* $A ********************* ;\
vlc --sout-all "$A" :sout="#transcode{...}:\
std{access=file,mux=avi,url=~/$A.avi}" \
vlc:quit -I dummy ;\
done ;\
Xdialog --title 'Complete' --msgbox 'All done' 0 0;
Make sure you really understand this command before using it. It's also a good idea to make sure you've got the right options in the transcode bit, and that it'll transcode the right files. The output is sent to your home folder in this example.
