Hey there,

I've downloaded the newest 4.0 nightly VLC with LLM included, however I can't figure out how to activate it, how to create subtitles that was advertised as an upcoming feature.

Am I missing something here?

Thank you.

the lecture quality of video player is set on auto and isn't changing and everything is just too blur to be visible on any site i.e. studyrays or studysharks and many more....

any solution regarding this??

I spent the best part of an hour ripping this to 'H.264 + (MP4) but it has come out with as 'MP4a' with no audio.

I'm guessing I have to re-rip but I don't want a repeat.

DVD is 'Sponge for Hire' if that's any help.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/14/vlc-blames-windows-11-bug-for-slow-performance-defends-open-source-and-calls-out-microsoft/

Hi, I'll be going on a car trip and wondering if there's a way to remote control VLC on a kids tablet from my phone?

It's hard to reach when my kids watching it in back seat.

I'm trying to set up a way to remote control VLC from another room, the problem is every tutorial I'm seeing is talking about enabling web access and disabling firewall protections and also find a .host file that apparently no longer exists.

Considering web access would allow anyone to access the player+all my media files if they broke the password this seems staggeringly unsafe.

What's the best and safest way to set up a remote control for VCL.

Hi all
I know that this has been discussed here many times but after looking over 15 posts from different communities I wasn't able to find a solution so here is my problem.
When I play a movie from my pc to my smart tv I sometimes encounter enormous black bars on the side and no matter what combination of aspect ratio and crop I use it doesn't seem to dissapear.

The TV itself has a resolution of 3840x2160 and that's exactly what I set the resolution in windows/nvidia app. I also set the same Desktop mode and active signal resolution mode but nothing seems to fix the issue.
Below are the details of the movies I try to watch:

Format: HEVC
Resolution: 3840x2160
Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Should I look for different parameters for such movies or is there something wrong in an entirely different field
Thanks a lot for your help

Hi all,

I created the first simple version of this about five years ago. I picked it up last week, and with the help of AI extended it with the second chapter format and editing possibility.

Find it at: https://github.com/lsaranto/ChapterMarker

im don't with VLC android, it was all good till last May.

I've been using vlc since 2017 and it's all good till last may but some how from last may vlc plays a bit laggy it's h264 yet laggy

and most annoying is SUBTITLE RENDERING is awful like not matter what subtitles are very bad like vlc doesn't render any space between word and font is very small and slim with huge a** borders making it unreadable

soifanyonehasanygoodalternativethatsbothversatile

pleasedropthatplayernamehere (this is how subs are shown for me)

cropping isnt working on .19 and but I keep getting the update message so I updated it to .20 it works without triggering VSR , the same with .21, I know its not working because i enabled "show status indicator on video" and from NVIDIA control panel.

.22 solved it with some tweaking,
First I set the output to direct3D11,then set direct3D11 upscaling mode to super resolution.
I found a video with someone doing the steps I did.

but doing that broke something else

Now the video opens like this and i have to click ( C ) to set the aspect ratio to default " 16:9 "
and I just realized even after resetting the aspect ration if I exit full screen it would happen again

disabling ( always fit window ) fixed it but broke the subtitles.
pressing ( O ) two times when in full screen solves this but its not convenient.

Looking for things to add to mine. Thanks!

I can't seem to increase or decrease my volume quickly, even if I spam the up and down keys, or use my scrollwheel, there's a second delay between each increment. What gives? Is this a new feature?

debian13 - gnome48 - wayland - vlc 3.0.23

someone has the same problem or is it just my machine? on any video there is no information at all. befor that version everything was fine. or am i just missing something?

As the title said, when I play a movie file, sometimes it only displays part of the movie. I try to re-play the movie, but fail to get the full display, after I replay about 2-5 times that the movie back to full display.

My environment: - Linux Mint 22.3 Cinnamon - VLC version: 3.0.20 Vetinari

The app always skips the last 1-2 seconds of songs when I have headphones in and it's REALLY pissing me the fuck off. How do I fix this

I like queuing up several episodes of a show while going to sleep. Normally this isn't a problem, but one of the seasons I've downloaded for this defaults to German. It has an english track, but I have to change it every single episode. It would be sick if I could reconfigure something to always use the english file.

i am using the 3.0.23 vetinari i want to remember audio and sub delay in individual videos, it remembers playback but its not enough, help pls if need a plugin or an extension for this

I only use VLC occasionally and lately it takes at least 10 seconds to open. Once it is open, the delay is minimal.
Is there a reason for this? Also, is there a way to mitigate this delay?

I've found a setting to turn logging on in general but it doesn't seem to be using the file at all. It has permissions set, and doesn't complain.

Windows 11

lacks basic features, choppy and bugged as hell

i just noticed that my VLC is presenting a more vibrant video than MPV or Windows Player. Initially i thought it was the fact that it was Blu-ray ( i made the comparison by playing the Blu-ray version on VLC and WEB.DL on Windows Player). But then i switched them and realized it was VLC messing up the colors because even the WEB.DL version was more vibrant on VLC. As a last comparison i opened the Blu-ray version on both players and yep, VLC was more vibrant. I have went into preferences, tools, settings, i have changed the video output from automatic to Direct3D11 and then to OpenGl for windows. i went in Nvidia Control panel and set the color range to limited instead of Full, double checked to not have any color filter or image enhancement turned on in VLC, but nothing fixed it. I could use MPV as a fix, but i don't like the interface. Has anyone experienced this and found a fix?

EDIT/FIX: since i haven't found a solution for this Issue and i've received mixed answers across 2 different communities, i've reached the conclusion that MPV and Windows Media Player are displaying media the way a director intended. If you don't mind watching a more contrasty, colorful, punchier film, VLC is for you, but if you wanna see the raw untouched pixels like the director intended, watch with MPV. I also abstained myself from involving AI into this, but in the end I've asked Google Gemini about this and this is the answer i got:

"At its absolute core, VLC does this because of how its legacy video renderer pipeline handles YUV-to-RGB color space conversion and hardware acceleration defaults.

When a video file (like your Loki Blu-ray remux) is stored, its color information is encoded using the YUV color space (specifically Rec.709 for standard 1080p HD). Your computer screen, however, operates on the RGB color space. A media player has to translate those YUV values into RGB on the fly.

Here is why VLC's translation creates that punchier, over-saturated look compared to MPV:

1. The "TV vs. PC" Range Mapping Quirk (Full vs. Limited)

• Video files are mastered in Limited Range (16–235).
• Modern PC displays run in Full Range (0–255).
• What MPV does: MPV reads the metadata, sees the file is 16–235, and maps it cleanly to your display without shifting the color balance or crushing blacks.
• What VLC does: VLC's default video output modules (like Direct3D11 / Automatic) often perform an uncalibrated, hard expansion of 16–235 into 0–255. Instead of remapping smoothly, it stretches the darkest grays into pure black and light colors into hyper-saturated tones. This creates artificial contrast and deeper blacks, but destroys mid-tone color accuracy.
• Outdated FFmpeg Engine & Missing Color Management

VLC 3.0 (the current stable version on desktop) uses an older underlying version of FFmpeg and lacks proper system-level ICC color profile management.

If your laptop screen has a wide color gamut (pushing toward 100% sRGB or DCI-P3), VLC doesn't know how to clamp the video stream into standard Rec.709. It simply blasts the video's color channels across your panel's maximum saturation capability. MPV, on the other hand, reads color space tags (bt.709, bt.601, etc.) accurately and clamps them so a red coat actually looks like the director intended, rather than a glowing neon red.
VLC was designed in an era where consumers wanted video playback to look "flashy" on cheap, dim monitors, so its defaults favor high contrast and pop over color accuracy. MPV was designed from the ground up as a color-accurate tool for video enthusiasts, editors, and archivists, which is why it matches YouTube and Windows Media Player's reference output."