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Which part of it don't you understand?

Apparently there is a bug in the version that you have currently installed. Normally the upgrade procedure would automatically start the newly downloaded installer. The bug prevents that, and you have to launch it manually.

You can also read the message directly from the horse's mouth.

> AMD Athlon II Neo K125 - Windows 10 Professional 32-bit

Well factoring in that your CPU is only an older single core, I'm not too shocked that VLC is causing it to run high usage. It has very little cache to speak of which is likely its bottleneck. I'm thinking its the fact that you simply have a slow processor. I'd try cleaning out the computer and making sure a minimal amount of things are running in the background to free up processing power and RAM.

Edit - another piece of software you can try is Foobar2000. Its commonly used in the audiophile communities and is designed for very weak processors and is even compatible for Windows XP. I know you have 10 I'm just underscoring that they know weak CPU's are going to be used when supporting XP.

You can use https://handbrake.fr/

It's free and it is a proper encoder. Under the subtitles tab there is an option to burn them on the video. The time the conversion will take depends on the final quality you want for the encode.

Your options are: Switching to Direct3D9 in preferences> Video>output, stay on older version https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.12.html or download the newest experimental build(it doesn't support auto update) https://artifacts.videolan.org/vlc-3.0/nightly-win64

It seems like maybe it could be an option in VLC, but as far as I know VLC can't do it, unfortunately. Which, may be inconvenient, because I assume you only want VLC using two sources, so it would be a matter of 'turning on/off' the dual-output setup any time you switch to something different.

But through the OS, it should be possible to do it, and it seems fairly simple on any OS. Hopefully this page helps, since I have no clue about OSX personally: https://lifehacker.com/5933282/how-to-aggregate-and-use-multiple-audio-inputs-and-outputs-in-os-x

Again, hopefully that helps, I don't know much about OSX or if there would be any reason those steps wouldn't work for you.

Oh man. Do not, I repeat do not ever download and run an EXE file when you're trying to download a movie. I will show you the ways theodoric-at-home.

First thing is first, do you have adblockplus installed onto your chrome or firefox browser? If not I linked you to the page that will download that for you. The reason for it is, it will prevent those click bait ads saying download now but it doesn't download what you want, and leads you to another website.

I'm a little confused as to what you mean by utorrent site open? Do you mean the program? If so, good, that's what you want. Then from utorrent you searched for black swan, and the top one was "Black.Swan.2010.1080p.BluRay.x264.anoXmous". When you open that up you'll get to a page where you should see something that says "GET THIS TORRENT" with a little magnet to the left of this. You want to click on that. Since it's your first time, it should prompt you to select the software you want to use to download this, or something to that extent. I think it's as simple as hitting ok. Then utorrent will pop up with the torrent contents and the destination folder you want to download it to. So in this torrent it comes with 3 files. the movie, and 2 subtitle files. (they end in .MP4 and .srt) If you see a torrent for a movie contains an .exe hit the cancel button and find a different one.

Watch this video to help you some more

Good job!

Should you want your user to be able to use your app without having the VLC app installed, you could ship and use libvlc (instead of vlc.exe). https://www.nuget.org/packages/VideoLAN.LibVLC.Windows/

Checkout Streamlink and Streamlink Twitch GUI

Streamlink allows you to start watching Twitch streams via command line (you type in the command and vlc starts playing the stream) and Streamlink Twitch GUI eliminates the need for using the command line by providing user-friendly way to open a stream

Late response, but you can use Streamlink. It allows you to pipe a crunchyroll video into VLC.

Sample usage: After running, VLC will play the episode with the best quality

streamlink http://www.crunchyroll.com/black-lagoon/episode-1-the-black-lagoon-763483 best

Edit: added sample usage

here are the basics :

You have a container, can be MKV or MP4 (mpg and avi also are older container types)

Inside this container you can have multiple streams. Usually one video stream and one audio stream. The container is there to tie them together and to keep them in sync while playing them. a container can also contain subtitles, metadatas, images and other things.

Each streams has it's own codecs, you probably have heard about some of them : mp3, aac, AC3, DTS, FLAC, opus are audio codecs. While h265, h265, VP9, Xvid, mpeg are video codecs.

MKV is a flexible container, you can put a lot of different codecs inside, it will playback if the player can handle the codecs. Most of the time you'll find x264 for video and AC3/DTS for audio.

MP4 is more strict and only specific codecs can be used. For video you can use h263, h264, h265 (Xvid, x264, x265), and only AAC for audio.

So if you have a MKV containing a x264 video and a DTS audio, you only have to transcode the audio to AAC and then wrap the original video with the new audio in a MP4 container. It's faster to do since video encoding is a very long process, while audio encoding is fast. It also better for quality because each time you encode the video you will lose some details.

However, since MP4 can't handle the soft subtitles you usually find in a MKV, you have to burn them in the image, thus you have to encode the video anyway.

If you want to play with streams and containers, you can try the soft cedesse recommended. You can try Avidemux as well. More advanced people will use the command line program FFmpeg. Video encoding is a broad an complicated world.

I hope things are more clear now, and sorry about my english.

ICYMI, this is fixed in VLC 3.0.2 https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

>Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2: >-------------------------------- > >Core: >* Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration

cc /u/AgentRipley /u/Jyuber /u/_taks /u/Ariurotl /u/gawtz

Personally, I prefer foobar for music, but that's just personal preference really. I think foobar sounds better than VLC for music, but to each his own.

MediaMonkey and XMPlay could also be worth a try.

This is what I've been looking at...

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B083FSXHS4/ref=sw_img_1?smid=A2JGTZ73Y0CX72&psc=1

u/arthwyr Sorry to necro the post but I was in the same predicament as you guys. I found that this app generates thumbnails for videos and images on SMB shares. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alphainventor.filemanager

The videos are all under 100mb so Im not sure how well it would work for movies.

A. I straight up forgot those existed B. I don't think Tor allows for extensions C. Something I just realized is that OP wanted a music video. Sometimes they won't download properly through VLC. D. For that to work, op needs Betternet chrome extension and video download helper in chrome. E. I feel like using one of the many video downloader sites would also work.

can you still see the files on the hard drive? Try playing some through a PC to make sure nothing got corrupted.

I am not a big fan of Kodi because it tends to do a bad job identifying my files, but I have used it before on my TCL and it did read files. Could use it to test if the TV sees it with a different app, which should help verify if it is VLC having issues, or the TV itself.

I will check my TCL vlc version and plug in an external drive to see how/if it works on mine (I normally use a samba share)

you can run ffmpeg from the andriod via termux - but unless you have a bluetooth keyboard available, I wouldn't want to have to do it typing on the screen. If its only one or two files shouldn't be too bad.

So far I've only found one app that can cast subtitles to a Chromecast on Android. It's called Localcast.

It's a little temperamental about which video files it will play but it's subtitles support is excellent. That said I've always exported subtitles into separate .srt files. I think I remember it not being so good at detecting and reading subtitles embedded inside the video files, but luckily exporting subtitles is pretty easy.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.stefanpledl.localcast

sorry it didn't work for you, I would also recommend pulsar - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rhmsoft.pulsar&hl=en_US&gl=US - as a music player for android.

gave me a chuckle, I feel you on restricting lots of access. I love VLC for a lot of things, but for my android local mp3 player I like Pulsar better personally.

Handbrake is the easiest to use imo, and it can be safely installed via ninite.com under the media column. However, it needs libdvdcss.dll in order to ignore the copy protection when ripping the disc. This can be installed via a link in this article, which also describes how to install it and use handbrake. The rip takes around a half-hour, but the result is convenient and worth the wait.

I suggest you try ByteCopy to convert DVD to mp4, coz bytecopy is fully acquired by NVIDIA CUDA and AMD APP acceleration technologies. It provides the fast speed for conversion.

Streamlink would be your best bet, assuming you're comfortable with the command line, and optionally setting up a config file for preferred player/options.  

Install via Python Pip/Pypi or the Windows Installer, depending on OS/preference. Everything needed is in the linked guide.

Press Ctrl+J when you have loaded the file in VLC and check the codec types:

Stream 0 Codec is the video codec, and Stream 1 Codec is th audio type.

If the video codec is not called something like H.264 / x264 / mp4v / MPEG4 AVC / AVCHD, then there's the reason... What does it say?

Video encoded with newer encoding methods like HEVC (MPEG-H aka. H.265/x265) or VP9 can't be played on the Xbox's MediaPlayer app.

MKV and MP4 are socalled container files. They can both contain different types of video and audio. Only some of them are supported by consoles like Xbox and PS. That's why yoiu will find that you can play some MKV and MP4 files but not others.

If the video was encoded with an unsupported codec type, and you don't have any other playback options, you will have to re-encode it, before you can play it on your Xbox. This can be done with a program like Handbrake (use the HQ 1080p30 preset with Slow or Slower speed setting to get a decent output).

Not sure why you mentioned Photoshop, but.... moving on....

u/pepetolueno already mentioned Handbrake, which is a well-known video encoding program which is free and open-source. You can look online for all sorts of tutorials as to how to use it.

To OP, use Handbrake and encode your rips using that (it has presets for iPhone). Copy over to the desired device afterwards.

Huh...this used to be such a trivially easy thing to do in Windows, but rarely did I ever have to do it, I didn't even notice that they removed it from being able to do it per file- I wonder how long that's been gone.

Anyway, It looks like to pull it off on current versions of Windows, you'll have to use Resource Hacker to do it (set the active icon for the file, which the icons are typically embedded in the exe as resources...hence the name of the app I mentioned).

That said, that's also weird that happened. Does vlc still work (but see below about scanning it first before trying if you haven't already)?

That looks like what happens when you remove the extension from a file, and since, from your screenshot, you are hiding extensions, it wouldn't be obvious. But it would also cause vlc to not run. Also, if it just kind of "happened", I'd be at least mildly suspicious, and run a virus scan against it just to be on the safe side. Like, check the properties of the file, make sure it has it's extension, and looks like the right side. Or even re-install VLC.

it might be, and the only test I know - ssh into phone to view a task manager like htop while running - may be more complicated than you want to try for a minor issue.

I also use the pulsar music player which can handle flac files, and is a little bit less resource intensive (it does have other limitations)

• make sure you are correctly case sensitive on your username/password.
• If you just setup and haven't rebooted, reboot both devices and try again.
• on the android device, under Settings > Advanced - try checking the "prefer SMB 1" box and see if your result changes
• if you have another windows device, you could test there that you can see the share, and verify if the issue is the share setup, or a router setting blocking it.
• If you do not have another device you could install an app like ES file manager that should also be able to browse the samba share, and check if it is specifically the vlc app having issue - I have noticed a delay on my android phone when trying to browse a very large folder on my share.
• Depending on which you tried initially, swap the hostname used between the computer's name, and the ip address. It may also be helpful at your router level, to reserve an IP for the windows machine, or give it a static IP.

I have a fix! Turns out in my country, has been banned by the ISPs and cannot be accessed.

So, by using a VPN such as ProtonVPN before launching VLC you can actually fix this issue and make VLSub work again.

I've not used VLC for my dvd ripping. But you can take a try at Handbrake.

Note that you need to download libdvdcss to use handbrake rip encrpted discs. But the annoying thing is that libdvdcss doesn't always work.

What I'm using now is a program entitled Easefab dvd ripper. This software is available to cope with both home-made and store-bought DVD discs without hassle. It's not free, but you get a lot for your moeny. This program can convert DVD main title only to MP4, AVI, WMV, 3GP, FLV or other mainstream video formats.

Pull down will only happen if you are converting a video. E.g. an ntsc video to pal. This will not happen on playback. Check the “Codec Information” for details on the FPS of the video you are playing back.

I do not recommend VLC as a converter. Use Handbreak https://handbrake.fr

It's a legit security update, but made me google too: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.12-update.html

Not only is it frustrating to read technical wording when there are different formats everywhere, it's an identical style to those frustrating popups that try to get you to download spyware. Can you remove the formatting please so it looks a little more legitimate.

Funny, came here to post the very same question. I've searched for a solution to this for years. Found this script long ago but it's not for OSX (btw, tried it and couldn't make it work on OSX-Mountain Lion. Then, I'm not much of a script person. Used to do that very same thing with a screensaver called Voop but that stopped working in OSX Lion). Hoping the latest VLC builds had some tool for making this less painful. Guess it's still waiting time.

[edit] just noticed you're on windows, maybe the script works for you. Good luck.

Have you tried AVIdemux? https://www.fosshub.com/Avidemux.html - It's one of the few free GUI programs available for MacOS that also let's you remux video.

Usually there's no need to transcode the video like Handbrake forces you to do. AVIdemux will simply copy the streams from the Matroska container to an MP4 container without changing anything else. This process is often called 'remuxing'. Just use the "Copy" option for the video and audio tracks. Of course, this will only work if your playback device supports the codecs inside.

You can also use AVIdemux to trim the video without transcoding if need be.

Just another false positive, nothing new.

All these crappy AV companies still think NSIS is a virus/malware.

Seriously, look at http://nsis.sourceforge.net/NSIS_False_Positives and just shake your head.

Frankly, most all these AV programs are 100% pure crap that snoop on everything you do, and slow things down.

If you want to check your downloads, use virustotal.com and here is the result for VLC: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/89d936dabd6de9b0b6266f7a015be473028c88f574420a1ba0fd5769c8b3323b/detection

Well..progress! I'm ditching vlc until they sort this out.

I was testing out https://snapcraft.io/install/mpc-hc/kubuntu and although you have to start it manually (file association didn't work for me) it's just a drag n drop of the .rar file into the open mpc-hc window. Tried two movies in the last 5 minutes and it works fine. I haven't tried to use subs because well I don't need them for english language movies. When you drop a .rar file in the window it will give you an error that's hiding behind the main windows, klick OK, and there you go. This v0.1 I believe so there will be bugs.

There's a project called JuceVLC which provides a media library interface and it also remembers the last 30 video positions. It looks like it hasn't been updated since 2015, but there's this:

> JuceVLC application uses regular VLC core libraries/plugins: You can paste future VLC versions directory along JuceVLC to update the core video player without any JuceVLC update

There are a ton of different ways to do this. I'm a huge fan of this one because you can subscribe to playlists and when a new video is added it will download it. https://www.mediahuman.com/youtube-to-mp3-converter/

it depends, subtitles comes in many forms.

• it may be an attached file (.srt) which can directly be opened with a text editor
• it may be in textual form within you file. there are dedicated tools to extract them. it depend of the format of your file, for instance, for MKV, you can use https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmkvextractgui/
• it may be images within your file. It's a bit harder since this not directly text. But there are some tools doing ORC extraction.

https://www.sodaplayer.com/

this fixed all my issues on windows; apparently it also comes in Mac flavor.

Unfortunately now that I use linux for my daily driver, I'm back to looking for a solution to this vlc issue.

I used to use BSPlayer to play MKV files when VLC wouldn't render them properly. But, this was years+++ ago, so I don't know if it would still work. But, might be worth a try. http://www.bsplayer.com/

Ok, I made slightly more progress, from Matroska's own site no less.

> All these formats can be stored fine in MKV files, but for playback it is necessary to have the right decoders installed on your PC. To help all our users to identify the codecs that were used in their MKV files, especially in case when the matroska full pack will not provide the right decoders and the files wont play, we provide a new tool called matroskadiag.exe .

Amusingly, my computer crashes when analyzing the files it has trouble with.

> If your files still dont play, you are likely facing a problem with your DirectShow installation ( too many filters installed ). In this case all we can recommend is a new installation of Windows

Yay, the one thing I didn't want to do.

> , or the use of players like VLC ( Videolan ) or Xine, which dont need an underlying framework like DirectShow for movie playback, but will provide decoders for most formats with the player itself.

well at least there's part of an answer.

For the avoidance of doubt I want to note that that the Syncplay VLC interface is designed to work in conjunction with the free Syncplay client that is available from https://syncplay.pl/ (Source: Am Syncplay developer)

For this error it is due to the opensubtitles API overloading, so all you need to do is:

1. Go to https://www.opensubtitles.org/pl/newuser
2. Register
3. Open extension, Show config and provide username and password
4. Get profit from higher API quotas.

For this error it is due to the opensubtitles API overloading, so all you need to do is:

1. Go to https://www.opensubtitles.org/pl/newuser
2. Register
3. Open extension, Show config and provide username and password
4. Get profit from higher API quotas.

For this error it is due to the opensubtitles API overloading, so all you need to do is:

1. Go to https://www.opensubtitles.org/pl/newuser
2. Register
3. Open extension, Show config and provide username and password
4. Get profit from higher API quotas.

Go to https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/newuser

Register

Open VLsub, Show config and provide username and password

Sometimes the site is overloaded, so they only serve the registered users. Because of the whole quarantine situation, I can imagine the servers being overloaded right now.

1. Go to https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/login/ and REGISTER
2. confirm registration in your email client
3. login to opensubtitles.org
4. open a movie in VLC, go to VLsub, Show config
5. enter Username and password from OpenSubtitles and SAVE.

Are you using DLNA to stream them? In such case I would suggest you to use a dedicate media server (which is a normal program), like Universal Media Server or the one integrated in Windows, which will do all the needed transcoding automatically.

There is a way to make VLC cast content with on the fly conversion, but I bet it' much more inconvenient than using a dedicated media server.

An MP4 file is actually just a container. Inside the container is the audio/video and subtitle files. You don't need to convert your existing video, you just need to create a new container and put your video and .srt file in it. I use this freeware: https://www.xmedia-recode.de/en/download.php

Make sure use use the pulldown menu in the video tab and select Copy.

Unless you're changing resolution or frame rate or something, there's no need to "convert" a video to MP4. MKV is just a container and so is MP4. The container holds a video file and an audio file. You just want to change the container type, not convert the contents. Try this video tool, but under the video and audio tabs, select COPY not CONVERT, save to MP4, and it should repackage everything very quickly with no flaws.

https://www.xmedia-recode.de/en/download.php

An MKV file (like an MP4) is just a container. Inside is a video file, an audio file, one or more subtitle files, etc. A program like MKVToolnix can let you see and modify the contents of the container.

https://mkvtoolnix.download/

You didn't mention what kind of video file it is, but MP4 and MKV are both just a "container". Inside the container is a video file, an audio file, plus any extras, like a subtitle file or artwork. The subtitle file (the .srt file) is just a text file that can be edited in Notepad or any text editor. You can extract the SRT file, edit out the problems, then insert it back into the video. You need the right tools for your video type. Look at MKVToolNix if it's an MKV file. https://mkvtoolnix.download/

Looking at Metadata gave you nothing ?

Then I would suggest you use something like MKVExtract to extract the track that contains the subtitles you like, then look at the file contents. If it's a text file format such as SSA, it's easy enough to find.

Otherwise, I'm sure there is a subreddit for font fanatics, where you could submit a screenshot of the font you like.

if your movie file with subs is an MKV, you can use MKVToolnixGUI to open it. then you can drag your other movie, disabled original video and audio, then save the new movie.

https://mkvtoolnix.download/

I don't have this menu (OSX). But it's highly likely a lossless cut of the original media.

If you want to cut media and want to be sure, you can do the same with Avidemux ensure you select copy for both video and audio.

If you don't want any quality loss, open the video with Avidemux, go to Audio > Save audio track.

If the audio is encoded with something else than aac or mp3, you may have trouble playing it with a standard audio player.

In this case, use Audacity, open your video with it, choose File > Export and select the codec you want.

It will be faster with Avidemux.

You can cut videos without re-encoding them is you cut at a keyframe. You can navigate from a keyframe to another with the << and >> buttons in avidemux, place your A/B markers at the begining and end of the segment.

Be sure to set video and audio to "copy" on the left side, chose mp4 muxer, and use the save button to save your clip. It will be as fast as copying the video clip on your drive. No loss of quality.

If you must cut between keyframes, you need to re-encode.

Tried mpv player? The fastest seeking I've seen. Almost "instant", also changing video playback speed is very smooth and with holding down "next frame" key you can play it in real time speed. Hasn't VLC always been bad at this.

Not much help getting it to work on VLC (I don't think there's a fix for the release version - maybe in the Beta), but mpv might work for you.

https://mpv.io/installation/

Can't say I'm a fan of the minimal MPV interface but it worked with some anime so maybe work a shot.

VLMC is not out yet, it's still being developed. I like to use Kdenlive for video editing (https://kdenlive.org/). Alternatively, you could also try to convert the video with VLC to a format movie maker can handle.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html Scroll down and look for "older versions." On Mac, you just download and install. Not sure on Windows...

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.html

The official website says it's not possible.

However, ther's that, it's one year old, my doesn't work with last verion of VLC

https://github.com/leifniem/Black-VLC-Mac

I was not able to (logitech mouse) through the VLC interface, but I was able to via the Logitech G hub. If you already utilize the mouse side buttons for a particular key/combo, assign those key/combo to the track forward/backwards hotkeys. I also recommend - https://www.unifiedremote.com/ - as an android device app that will let you control vlc from your phone.

The disk is from 2016 (movie from 2012)

This is the disc drive: https://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Portable-External-GP65NB60/dp/B00ODDE33U/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3BYQST2YO97IM&amp;dchild=1&amp;keywords=lg+slim+portable+dvd+writer&amp;qid=1634090765&amp;sprefix=lg+slim+p%2Caps%2C209&amp;sr=8-3

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These are the exact errors that VLC gave me:

VLC cannot set the DVD's title. It possibly cannot decrypt the entire disc.

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///D:/'. Check the log for details.

So you tried an extension on the browser and then tried to use vlsub? That won’t work. The extension only pertains to the browser. It won’t tunnel the traffic of any other app your computer.

You need a VPN app that tunnels the traffic of your whole computer.

Check ProtonVPN, you can get a free account that has few servers available but it should be enough for this.

VLC as your music player? Ew

Poweramp trial

Full version is worth paying for

Hello, I use Linux and I have the same issue, since the last update I can't access anymore to my shared folder. In addition, VLC doesn't store the user and password to access such folders.

With other apps there is no problem. As a workaround I have installed this app on my Xiaomi Box S:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.terminus.lan.scan

I hope that this helps.

Which "the remote app on android"? I'm using CJ VLC HD Remote (+ Stream) and it has a help screen that shows the settings for VLC.

WiFi or ethernet doesn't matter if the phone is connected to the same net as the PC with VLC.