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videolan / vlc

vlc

VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

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VLC media player - plays everything, runs anywhere. Code here: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	4
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2

What Hacker News says

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mcraiha·Nov 8, 2025

I think you mean libavcodec? But that is incorrect. VLC has even more supported features, if you do not believe me, check the source code https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/a33f33ddb0a9e0d26d779eb...

In VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025

rvnx·Jan 9, 2025

It can actually send to Google the information on what you are playing: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad... and to their own servers: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/f908ef4981c93a8b76805ad... should could fetch subtitles as the same time ? edit: cf, what "a3w" says too.

In VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

sureIy·Sep 21, 2024

You have not maintained popular open source projects for consumers then. There is a reason why the VLC repo no longer has an Issues tab: https://github.com/videolan/vlc PRs can’t be blocked and you can already see some junk there: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/pulls

In Open source maintainers underpaid, swamped by security, and going gray

aaws11·Aug 18, 2022

https://github.com/videolan/vlc

In India Bans VLC Media Player

tjohns·Dec 20, 2021

VLC has built-in support for Blackmagic SDI output cards: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/modules/video_ou... Though a quick search through online forums suggest that module isn't compiled into Ubuntu's version of VLC by default, so you may need to compile your own version: https://gist.github.com/afriza/cd9ce01a7b47b9bd3f192e95af1a0...

In Apple added an orange dot that’s a showstopper for live visuals

MaxBarraclough·Nov 1, 2020

VLC too. [0] As someone pointed out recently, [1] this presumably breaks the YouTube terms of service, as presumably does any use of youtube-dl. [0] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?q=youtube [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24894425

In New youtube-dl release: v2020.11.01.1

MaxBarraclough·Oct 26, 2020

VLC uses youtube-dl. https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?q=youtube

In The RIAA’s attack on YouTube-dl is not a DMCA 512 infringement

sterwill·Jun 3, 2020

More technical details in case anyone needs to quickly pipe out some audio to the Internet: /usr/bin/vlc -I dummy -vv --no-alsa-stereo alsa://default:CARD=Device -L --sout-keep \ --sout #transcode{acodec=opus,channels=1,ab=24000,afilter=equalizer}:standard{access=http,mux=ogg,dst=:9999} \ --equalizer-2pass --equalizer-bands 0 0 0 0 0 0 -20 -20 -20 -20 --no-alsa-stereo because my input source is mono. --sout-keep probably isn't necessary now, but it was when I was streaming from the radio's crashy RTSP service. The #transcode block sets up a simple pipeline: first transcode to Opus at the specified output bitrate (24 Kbps is plenty for recorded voice), then mux it up and serve it via HTTP. I added a low-pass filter at ~6 KHz because there's some of high frequency noise from either my radio's analog output stage or the cabling.

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I had to look through the VLC source code[1] to find the preset frequency bands since I couldn't find them in VLC docs. [1] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/777f36c15564b076bf13af6...

In Thousands are monitoring police scanners during the George Floyd protests

aplaice·Jan 13, 2020

I second the mpv-based solution, as suggested by st1ck. If you prefer vlc, it now (as of the beta 4.0.0)[0] also supports dual/secondary subtitles. Making it work seems a bit fiddly: first you need to turn them on (under Tools > Preferences > Subtitles/OSD > Dual Subtitles (at the very bottom) > Align — change to anything but unset, and possibly also adjust offset). Then, when playing a video, to select them for that video, you need to "Toggle secondary subtitle control" with Ctrl+Shift+V (this means that the normal subtitle control shortcuts like "v", "Alt+v" etc. now apply to the secondary subtitles) and press "v" the right number of times to switch to the subtitles that you want. (Obviously vlc and mpv will only work for DRM-free videos, e.g. from youtube or a DVD.) If you were asking specifically about Netflix subtitles, there used to

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be an open source NflxMultiSubs extension[1] for both Firefox and Chromium, but it was broken by Netflix introducing changes to its video player and discontinued. There is an active, open-source dual-captions[2] extension, but it's for Chrome only. (However, since it's open source adapting it it for Firefox should be straightforward.) Finally, as an alternative approach, you could try a Firefox addon which allows loading arbitrary subtitles in the SRT format to netflix,[3] and which might perhaps allow you to have both netflix's subtitles and your own SRT ones at the same time. [0] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/NEWS#L30 [1] https://github.com/dannvix/NflxMultiSubs/ [2] https://github.com/mikesteele/dual-captions [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/netflix-srt-s...

In Language Learning with Netflix extension

cipherboy·Nov 14, 2019

Ah TIL, it must be a new feature. Most of the mirrors I'm used to aren't truly mirrors but are "mirrors" that are synced manually/via bots and lack the little link. These are likely just regular repos. [0]: https://github.com/nss-dev/nss [1]: https://github.com/videolan/vlc

In GCC 7.5

dilap·Jul 19, 2018

Only for nix -- for the Mac, it's using native widgets, if I'm not mistaken: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/modules/gui/maco... (Which is pretty damning -- they already had a Qt implementation, but would rather do real native!)

In Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

remoroid·Jul 19, 2018

Yessss it is. The gui is written in Qt c++ and all the processing backend is C. https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/modules/gui/qt

In Qt Creator 4.7.0 released

_jomo·May 24, 2017

These are the VLC commits adressing the issue: https://github.com/videolan/vlc/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=subt...

In Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users

remlov·Mar 7, 2017

Please don't spread disinformation. "...the asset will have 'downloaded' the portable version of VLC player (2.1.5)..." This does not sound like a copy of the public version and that it's "compromised". You could check for yourself if you like: https://github.com/videolan/vlc :)

In CIA malware and hacking tools

arthurfm·Feb 28, 2015

jbk - With 3.0.0 do you have any plans to switch the 32-bit and 64-bit Windows installers from NSIS compiled EXEs to MSIs to make it easier to deploy and/or customize which features are installed? The only reason for asking is that I came across the .wxs files on your Github page. [1] :) [1] https://github.com/videolan/vlc/tree/master/extras/package/w...

In VLC 2.2.0 multi-releases

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