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VLC(1)						   General Commands Manual					      VLC(1)

NAME
       vlc, qvlc, svlc, nvlc, rvlc, cvlc - the VLC media player

SYNOPSIS
       vlc [OPTIONS] [ITEMS]...

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the VLC multimedia player and server.

OPTIONS
       VLC  follows  the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  For a precise de‐
       scription of options, please use "vlc --help".

       The complete list of VLC options depends on what plugins are installed because they automatically add their  own	 op‐
       tions. Please use "vlc --longhelp --advanced" for a complete list of available options.

ITEMS
       VLC recognizes several URL-style items:

       *.mpg, *.vob, *.avi, *.mp3, *.ogg, *.opus
	      Various multimedia file formats

       dvd://[][@][#[][:[<chapter>][:<angle>]]]
	      DVD device (for instance dvd:///dev/dvd). The raw device is optional and must have been prepared beforehand.

       vcd://[<device>][@{E|P|E|T|S}[<number>]]
	      VCD device (for instance vcd:///dev/cdrom).

       udp://[@[<multicast address>][:<local port>]]
	      UDP stream, such as one sent by VLS or another VLC.  Usually "udp://" is enough.

       http://<server address>[:<server port>]/[<file>]
	      HTTP stream

       rtsp://<server address>[:<server port>]/<stream name>
	      RTSP Video On Demand stream

       vlc://<command>
	      Execute a playlist command. Commands are: pause (pause execution of other items), and quit (close VLC).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       The following environment variables may affect VLC:

       DISPLAY
	      The X11 display server address.

       http_proxy
	      The HTTP proxy server URL.

       OSSAUDIO_DEV
	      The default audio output device, used by the OSSv4 output plugin.

       VLC_DATA_PATH
	      The directory containing VLC run-time data files (e.g. /usr/share/vlc).

       VLC_PLUGIN_PATH
	      An extra directory to load VLC plugins from.

       VLC_VERBOSE
	      The level of verbosity for log messages (0: silent, 1: error/info, 2: warning, 3: debug).

       XDG_CACHE_DIR XDG_CONFIG_DIR XDG_DATA_DIR
	      The directories to store user cached data, user configuration files and user data files respectively.

       XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR XDG_MUSIC_DIR XDG_PICTURES_DIR XDG_VIDEO_DIR
	      The  directories to fetch or store user text files, downloads, music, pictures (i.e. snapshots), and video re‐
	      spectively.

       XDG_SESSION_COOKIE
	      The unique identifier of the desktop session, used by the PulseAudio output plugin.

SEE ALSO
       Online documentation: http://www.videolan.org/doc/

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used  by	oth‐
       ers).

							Feb 14, 2005						      <a href="VLC.html">VLC(1)</a></pre>
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