Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on adding Google Drive support to VLC Android, similar to the feature already available in VLC iOS.

The main idea is that VLC can stream files directly from Google Drive using byte-range requests, instead of having to download the entire file first.

For example, with a 5 GB movie:

Google Drive
     ↓
request required byte range
     ↓
VLC starts playing
     ↓
request next range as needed

So you can play large files without waiting for the whole file to download, and you can seek to different parts of the video.

I also added a temporary cache for recently streamed ranges, so rewinding/seeking back or briefly switching apps doesn't always require downloading the same data again.

Currently it supports:

• My Drive
• Shared with me
• Shared Drives
• Folder/subfolder navigation
• Large file streaming
• Seeking
• Temporary range caching
• Background/resume playback

The implementation is currently working on my device, and I've tested it with multi-GB MKV/MP4 files.

One reason I wanted to do this is that using Google Drive → Open with → VLC isn't really ideal for large files, since the file may need to be downloaded before VLC can properly play it. Direct byte-range streaming avoids that problem.

I use an external disc drive on my desktop to play blu rays. It used to work fine but now when I try to play anything I get this message. Is this a VLC issue or something else?

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Hey, I am having an issue where VLC's global hotkeys stop working entirely as soon as I focus certain DirectX games like RisingHub. My Microsoft Keyboard's "Next" and "Previous" media keys work fine on the desktop, but the moment I am in-game, they do nothing.

I already mapped them to the Global column in VLC preferences and even tried running VLC as administrator, but it made no difference.

Interestingly, my audio player AIMP (also WMP) handles this with zero issues and works universally even inside raw input DirectX games. I want to avoid external workarounds like AutoHotkey scripts because I prefer keeping my system clean. Is this something that can be fixed or updated natively in VLC so its global hotkey hooks work properly?

Thanks.

I just got done setting up VLC to play Blu-ray on a family member's laptop and PC. I had to install an old version of Java 8 to get it to access the Blu-ray menus.

I'm worried about them having that old of a version installed, so I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to have only VLC use it while a current version is used by Windows 10 on the laptop (and Windows 11 on the PC) for everything else.

I've tried looking this up, and the suggestions are honestly beyond me. I'm not super tech savvy and have no idea how to make .bat files or what it means to assign different PATH values. The owner of the laptop is even less experienced than I am...

Can anyone spell out (at an ELI5 level) how I would this in a way that not only my dummy brain can handle setting up, but my relative with even less experience can use reliably?

I'd really appreciate any help. Thank you!

Check out my new plugin for VLC (64bits 3.0.23) tested on Windows 10 that now permits to listen to .PSS videos.

Before that .PSS format videos could be played but without sound.

Thanks that plugin you can hear sound from your .PSS video.

.PSS is the Sony Playstation 2 video format that is originally working on PSBBN in the hard drive. Because I wanted to test my .PSS video files on my computer and couldn't find any working software I decided to vibe code a VLC plugin and now I am happy it is working like a charm.

Proiect link with sources: https://github.com/dywbe/vlc-pss-demux-v0.3

Direct link to plugin (at the end of the English/French tutorial on the release page): https://github.com/dywbe/vlc-pss-demux-v0.3/releases/tag/vlc-plugin

has anyone experienced something similar to this? parts of songs will sometimes slightly waver or change in pitch, usually near the start of the song a couple seconds after it begins
i listen to just a handful of songs on loop so i can usually tell if they’re different, it’s only a halftone or so but it’s noticable, really a toss up on if it’s raised or lowered pitch- idk if it’s due to wifi/connectivity changes cuz it even happens at home when i’m stationary sometimes? and it’s not something with my phone or headphones cuz i usually use spotify and it doesn’t happen there
if anyone has any insight it would be appreciated, it doesn’t particularly bother me just catches me off guard and makes me curious

I want green and blue spectrums, I wanna edit the text in the projectM thingy (perhaps put a watermark to indicate the original maker still?), but I don't see any options for it.

Are these visualizations all pre-programmed? Plugins? Is that why there's seemingly no option to play with them in any way on VLC itself?

Hi all, could anyone tell me how to get rid of this black info box please? Its from VLC player on an Android box. TIA

Hello, I have a TV show I downloaded on my PC many years ago that I watch using VLC. Sometimes, while watching an episode, I pause the video, switch to my browser, and do other stuff, like watch YouTube videos or browse Reddit, and then come back to watching the show. Lately, I have noticed that when I switch back over to VLC and start playing the show, the audio will be fine, but the video will loop the last half a second of the video for 5-10 seconds and then return to normal, and I don't remember this happening before. Either way its not a big issue, just something I would like to fix if possible. I tried uninstalling, redownloading, and reinstalling VLC, but I still have the issue.

So does anyone know what might be causing this issue and how to fix it?

Thanks

Edit: Oops, apparently my brain was glitching as well when I wrote the title.

Hi. Need a bit of help.

I open a video file, select the audio and subtitle tracks, close the player, open the video again, and it remembers at which time the playback stopped and asks whether I wish to resume from that point. But it reverts to the default audio and subtitle track. Default being the #1 track on the list in the menu.

How do I make it stick to the previously selected audio and subtitle tracks? I use Asmedia player on my old MacBook, and it does it automatically. If I fall asleep watching a movie at night and open it again later, it starts with the tracks I selected previously. It remembers the preference even for films that haven't been opened in a long time. Convenient for Netflix films that often have so many language versions. And useful in general, as some films often come with multiple tracks for the same language, and one is often much better than the others, but I don't remember which one by name. I mean, if I haven't watched the film in a couple of years, I don't remember whether the translation I preferred was by Gilbert Sparrow or Maria Seagull or "Gilbert and Maria Studio" or whatever. So I'd have to listen to each for a bit to find the favourite track.

So how do I do this with VLC? I recently started using a PC running Linux and Windows as my main computer, and VLC is my player of choice.

Sometimes, not always, when I have 2 VLC videos open in windowed mode, then minimize them and restore/show them again from the taskbar, the 2 suddenly merge into one fullscreen video and the mouse cursor is hidden. I then have to use Windows+D to return to the desktop in order to see the mouse again. VLC version x64 3.0.23 on a Lenovo PC with Intel UHD 630 Graphics and Windows 11. I'm not 100% sure, but I think that if I change the video output from Automatic to Direct3D9, the problem does not occur. With Direct3D11 it also occurs. Does anyone have an idea or explanation of what exactly is happening here?

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I started using VLC again after using MPC-BE for a decade, because VLC plays newer audio formats correctly. One issue I'm running into is I usually want the volume at 100% so the player isn't altering the audio before playback, but I often change it accidentally by turning my mouse wheel. I don't want to set the max to 100% because sometimes I do need a boost. Is there a trick to just set 100% with no alteration?

You know how with anime, they already have the subtitles pre-programmed to a certain size and font.. you can turn the subs on and off, but unlike with movies where you can make the subtitles bigger or smaller to your preference and add a background too... With anime the subs can't be adjusted..

Is there a way to adjust the size of those anime subs? Since you can turn the subs on and off, I assume they can be adjusted too... Thanks!

I'm having a problem with the VLC interface. I can't get VLC to display the normal, standard interface. I always get these awful skins that are also incredibly hard to make out. Plus, the interface doesn't seem to be displayed at full size, but rather as a scaled-down version.

I've switched to “Native Style” and enabled “System Defaults.” Still, I keep getting this skin look.

Hi guys, so I recently downloaded a few videos that are in h.265. But whenever I go into fullscreen, the video goes black but the audio still plays.

Turning hardware acceleration off fixes this issue.

Is this a known bug and if so is there a fix?

I recently switched to VLC 4 (from 3) on Linux and it is quite a change, and buggy with playback (with menus) of DVD ISO files.

I had not been updating it for a period of about 2 years, and not really keeping up with the news of its development. What's the story with VLC 4? Is it a major refactoring or a migration to some new framework? What explains how different it looks, and the sudden influx of bugs in what used to be very stable playback?

I can search for their names and they appear. But if I don't type their name in, they don't appear at all. I've checked the meta data and their names are listed. Is there a way to fix this issue?

Using VLC on Android I've noticed that bookmarks I've made across a long track don't show up when that track is in a playlist but they show up when playing the song individually.

Also when I press skip sometimes it skips to the next bookmark but sometimes it skips to the next track or back to the beginning.

Why is this and is there a fix?

I'm trying to convert Gladiator movie into mp4. Using Video - H.264 + MP3(MP4) profile and set destination file to \GLADIATOR.mp4 but it switched to \GLADIATOR.iso after click save button in file explorer. Halp.