Difference between revisions of "VLC"

Revision as of 03:43, 2 September 2006

Using VideoLAN for playback

The command line for the video player should be:

vlc file://%s vlc:quit

This will execute vlc passing the file to play in a URL format. The vlc:quit portion adds the quit message to the end of the playlist so that VLC will exit once the playlist is completed. There are many other options in

#~/.vlc/vlcrc

These are the options that I suggest. You should read through the configuration file and create your own settings.

intf=dummy    #starts vlc with no interfaces such as web, telnet, or wxWidgets
fullscreen=1  #tells vlc to playback in fullscreen
width=1920    #vlc will start in a window, I use these settings
height=1080   #to make the initial window the full size of my screen
spdif=1       #have vlc audio output over digital S/PDIF
osd=0         #vlc on screen display is different from MythTV, disable to look consistent
rt-priority=1 #a possible speed-up, setting vlc up for real-time priority level
control=lirc  #add LIRC as a control input

There are also key-bindings in the vlcrc, They should mimic your MythTV key bindings so that your remote controls are consistent. You should only have to uncomment each line that starts with "#". Here is one example:

key-quit=Esc