Difference between revisions of "Preferences"

Revision as of 07:21, 9 February 2019

You can edit settings for VLC by clicking in the Settings menu and selecting Preferences (or by pressing Ctrl+S).

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
Mac OS X: ~/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/2003 Server: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\vlcrc
- Windows 7: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\vlc\vlcrc
BeOS: config/settings/vlcrc
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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+File:Tools-menu-item.png|Location of preferences option|alt=For the preferences dialogue, navigate to the menu toolbar, select tools, select preferences.
+File:Preferences-Windows 8.png|Preferences dialogue under Windows 8|alt=
+File:Vlcmenu preferences osx.png|Preferences dialogue under macOS|alt=
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 You can edit settings for VLC by clicking in the Settings menu and selecting Preferences (or by pressing Ctrl+S).
 * To save your preferences, click Save.
 * To show more options, check the Advanced box.
 === Configuration File ===