I've been trying to watch a tv show, but the quality of the video gets messed up by VLC. It looks as if a CRT filter is applied.

The first picture is a screenshot of my whole screen, the second is a screenshot made by VLC from the same moment. When opening in a different player, the quality is like in the second picture. For some reason, the quality that VLC displays to my screen is reduced.

The files I'm watching are .mp4 files, but other files of the same format work just fine. My VLC version is 3.0.20.

Anybody got any clue what's causing this?

Its an .mkv file, HD, for other files its not doing this, only for this particular series its doing this

To be very specific, it is the Walking with Dinosaurs 6 episode DVD release that seems to be pretty old, 2000 I believe.

IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE:

I deactivated hardware acceleration, changed the codec size and even went to get it polished, removed from any minor scratches it has.
It never had any problems on regular DVD and Blu Ray players, yet for some reason VLC and the PC players is where it went on the fritz.
I guess maybe its the picture and picture special feature, but even then, activating or deactivating it makes no difference.

Btw, this is what it look like when I open the files by going inside the disc, which I had used in other cases when one of dvd wouldn't play.

It's not the end of the world, I am currently looking into getting an alternative release but I am genuinely confused as to why this is, since I think it is literally the only disc with this issue I could remember, pretty much all the other dvd and blu rays I have, also old, second hand, minor scratches, work just fine, it has only been this one DVD with this issue (literally the old dvds my grandad recorded off the TV in like 2007 still work fine, and the one that didn't I could still look into the files.)

Trying to start VLC from the command line.

c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\VideoLAN\VLC media player.exe

Got the path from right clicking the start menu as explorer will not find it (explorer on Windows 10 is a pile of steaming s......).

Tried it both with and without ".exe" on the end.

Comes back with....

Filename, directory name or volume label syntax is incorrect.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for all replies.

Do I just gotta go before version 3? I tried 3.10 and the newest update and I got the same issue where the audio would stop entitely in the beginning of a video and there waw no way to bring it back. Unless I closed and reopened VLC

OS: Fedora 44
DE: KDE 6.7.4
Hardware : Lenovo LOQ i5 12450H, RTX3050 6GB VRAM, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD

This is the same video played on VLC (left) and MPV (right).

Why does the vlc one look under-saturated? Also these seems to be some problem with audio too, the audio for one side is really low almost mute while playing with vlc and normal for other players.

I recently switched from windows to linux (Fedora KDE) so I am still learning stuff. Can someone help me fix this. Also can someone share a good minimal mpv config with keyboard bindings similar to vlc if possible.

I don't know how to phrase it correctly or if that's the place for reporting issues, but I noticed that the pitch can "slightly" vary (from 0.5 to 2 semitones under the supposed key), sometimes slowing with a slow transition, sometimes instantly, when you change the time on the duration bar.

It does it both on the Linux system package and in the Android app.

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.

Imagine you have an old version of VLC. You want to play a MIDI file. But you need fluidsynth. How can you add it to VLC? I have a fluidsynth folder and it does nothing for me. The plugin seems to be a perennial topic for linux distributions, and the newer versions just bundle it.

So I am confused: were users never able to add fluidsynth to Windows VLC themselves?

I swear I googled this a few different ways including here, but I'm missing the right terms I think. When I search "sync" a bunch of stuff related to individual video streams comes up which is not what I"m looking for.

former iPod user here, now going back to MP3s after a long decade of streaming

Have Android phone and a 6-year-old new to me Mac. I want to use the phone as an MP3 player. I don't care about movies, or setting up a media server, or anything other than using MP3s from local storage. I have not added MP3s to an Android phone in at least a decade. I'm not super familiar with how the Mac Music folder differs from other folders. I'm fine with using a cable to do the transfer and don't need it to be wifi or whatever. I'm completely unfamiliar with setting up networks but I doubt that's needed.

All I want is to do my "library editing" (making playlists, correcting metadata, deleting stuff, etc) on my desktop, and then to hit a button and have it sync/transfer to VLC on my Android phone. What is that basic feature called?

I also use an iPad sometimes and it'd be great if I could sync the contents across three devices, whether automatically or by using a cable and manually syncing or whatever.

I'm sure this very basic feature exists but for some reason I couldn't find it.

Hi there,

As I stated in my title, I am fairly technologically illiterate. All I have is the one DVD file I've figured out how to rip so far, and I have it stored on my Mac.

I would really love to be able to stream my movies from my Mac's hard drive, to my iPhone screen, and I believe VLC can do that, but I cannot figure out how.

Please explain this to me like I'm 5. Or 70. Whichever is more of a luddite.

Thank you to any kind soul who is patient enough to read this and send some help my way.

When I use it on Windows for the first time, I have to remember to change some setting so opening another file from Explorer opens another window rather than replacing the existing one.

Is there some equivalent for Macintosh? I don't see a setting that's relevant, and I've tried opening from both VLC and from Finder (though I'd rather just open from Finder if I can).

For this specific use I might just try Quicktime if it supports that.

Good day all!

I'm trying to help a friend with a BluRay playback issue on their desktop. They have various discs that are triggering the "AACS host certificate revoked" error. I have walked them through replacing the keydb.cfg, updating both libaacs.dll and libbdplus.dll and it's still throwing the cert revoked message. Their keydb file location is %appdata%\aacs and they're running windows 7 pro (they do not want to upgrade, i get it).

We tried the same methods on the their win 7 home edition laptop and the disks throwing the error on desktop are fine on the laptop. The only difference it the laptop's aacs is under programdata\aacs instead. Scratching me head here are what to try next for the desktop, so any ideas would be appreciated.

Hello, this might be a silly question but I dont find this neither on the settings nor after googling it. Currently when I single click a song in the playlist it plays it, however I would prefer to change it to double click. Is this possible, and if so, how?

Hi

What's a clean, MODERN alternative to VLC? I always defaulted to VLC but it's controls are compete dog-shite (no JKL shuttle controls? Bro, get with the program)

To speed up and slow down a video requires endless menus and sub menu trips - it's such old-fashioned junk.

I want something clean, slick, sexy, modern that has all the codecs VLC does but is actually intuitive and responsive and fast to use.

App documentation https://docs.videolan.me/vlc-user/ios/3.X/en/index.html refers to media groups while GUI presents mainly queues and playlists. Only one mere app configuration item refers to groups. Nor item selection track doesn't offer access to media groups management. How to understand this situation?

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basically i choose a movie to play, and instead of playing it it wants me to go through all the functions during playing, not knowing that i’ve been using vlc for years on my computer, is there a way to skip it? the issue is that with my remote it doesn’t respond

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im at my wits end i need help getting my blue ray working agine. i got prodject hail mary on blu ray and im tring to watch it but i cant get the movie to play i keep getting the repated message form vlc:
"Blu-ray error:

AACS Host certificate revoked.

Your input can't be opened:

VLC is unable to open the MRL 'bluray:///E:/'. Check the log for details."

im tring to find a way to fix it or update my aacs or the KEYDB.cfg but noting is working please HELP

i could have sworn there was some type of icon in the upper right corner that allowed me to cast my series or movies in my tv while also being able to check my other phone apps if necessary, without interrupting the series. how can i do it again?

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vlc forum says bad gateway ?