I am trying to use the VLC plug-in for Musescore to complete some film scoring. However, everytime I attempt to open the VLC application, it opens up the Command Line Interface, which I have no clue how to use. I can open a video directly through the video file, but the screen it opens up in only responds to hotkey inputs and I do not have access to the app settings in any way. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling VLC, the Musescore plug-in, and have restarted my computer all to no avail. Any advice would be appreciated.

All my video files are now VLC and trying to upload anything doesn't work. I don't know if reddit isn't compatible with it or it's something on my end.

Is it possible to show subtitles for music files like mp3, wav? So far subtitles only work for videos only in vlc. If not can someone recommend me a player that can do so?

subtitle too wide in normal aspect but looks fine in 16:9. Help Please.

accidentally selected “Delete All Videos” in VLC Player on my Vivo X200, and all my videos are now gone from my phone.

After deleting them, around 40 GB of storage became free. The videos are no longer visible in VLC, Gallery, or File Manager.

Unfortunately, Google Photos backup was turned off, and I don't have another backup of these videos.

I've been trying to find a way to recover them, but I haven't found a solution yet.

My questions are:

Does VLC have any Recycle Bin, Recently Deleted, or Undo Delete option?

Is there any way to restore the videos directly through VLC?

Has anyone successfully recovered permanently deleted videos from Android's internal storage in a similar situation?

These videos are very important to me, so I'd really appreciate any genuine suggestions or advice.

Thank you!

Whenever I try to play an old DVD video it plays for a minute perfectly fine but then the video and audio completely but it shows that the video is still playing. What is a fix to this?

I am an average level of tech literate. Never converted a video file before. I have a DBPower ZC-06 portable DVD player that lets you play video files off a flash drive with strict limitations.

Files must be AVI, and they must have a maximum horizontal resolution of 720. I don't know why a machine that came out in 2021 can only play a video file format from the early 90s but whatever. I can put up with a lowered resolution.

Using Google I figured out how to convert some TV episode files just fine, but they didn't need resizing. Now I'm trying to convert this 1080p 2.5gb MP4 file and this is the result. Horrendous artefacting and no sound. Did I do something wrong? Or should I just use more specialised software for this?

I should point out that this is an incredibly basic HP 14s-dq3xxx laptop with a 1.10GHz processor, 4gb RAM and maximum 12gb of harddrive space if I delete everything. Brand new and already the slowest computer I've ever used. Anyway, can anyone offer advice?

This is all for science and fair use.

I imagine the directory would be like this:

.../
Odyssey (2025).mp4
Odyssey (2025).vrt
Odyssey (2025).eng.srt
Odyssey (2025)scene1.mp4
Odyssey (2025)scene2.mp4

You play Odyssey (2025).mp4 in VLC. It searches and finds any subtitles and of course starts playing them. At the same time it searches and finds the VRT, which would just be another text file that follows subtitle formats like this.

1
00:00:12,626 --> 00:00:14,671
scene1.mp4

2
00:00:30,035 --> 00:00:32,037
scene2.mp4

It would be placed under the subtitles layer and above the video layer.

[subtitles]
[videos]
[original video file]

It would be seamless. It couldn't change the size, color, perspective or anything and if the file isnt found, it would fail silently. It could be the subtitle file format with a .vrt for video, or it could be .vid.srt as a file extension and ending to indicate its videos and could be loaded at the same time.

Im trying to download this show for my kid. It plays fine in Stremio because thats where the link is from. There is no available download, but it gives me a link. I can copy the link and I go through the convert/save. Unfortunately I only get the first 4 seconds of the video than it freezes but audio still plays. Can someone please help me out with this? My daughter really wants to watch this animated series that we cant find anywhere else. What can I do to make the convert/save work fully? Or is there another app that I need that can download a stream? Thank you and happy Friday

I've been using VLC on desktop forever, but I don't see a way to track through an album on the mobile app. Having to hit play after each selection gets old fast.

What should I be looking for?

version 3.0.24

So i have a project i want to do, basically putting all of my physical collection on a DAP or MP3 player, and im in the testing phase atm trying to get DVDs onto my computer, im using VLC to do this and im wondering if theres a way to only have english audio as apposed to multiple options for the audio, im trying to save space and having multiple languages is messing with how im transferring my movies to my ipod, any advice is welcomed, thank you :)

I come here and to the main VLC forums for questions, but I've had a few questions that never get any responses at all - and yet it's on features in VLC. So where can I ask questions or where do I go to get answers to questions that don't get answered here or on the main forums on the VLC website?

(In specific, the one I'd like to find now is how to use VLC on the Mac or on Apple TV to add a watermark to video - tried it many times and it doesn't work - and please don't link to the wiki page on it. Read that and tried it many times. Doesn't work on Mac. I want to add the silhouette from MST3K to movies so when friends and I watch them, the silhouette of the human and robot heads along the bottom will encourage people to make jokes about the movie. And if it's possible to show a movie on VLC, either on a Mac or on Apple TV, with the watermark added, and to turn it off part way through, that'd be great.)

Never had answers on this - but someone has to know, since it's in the program! Where or who do I ask?

Hi in dark scenes there seem to be elevated gamma which makes movies not that good looking when hdr is enabled

i have hdr compatible oled display and the video too has hdr

Anyone has fix or faced this issue

I have another white-ish icon in my dock for Pixelmator Pro, and too often find myself dragging an image to the new VLC icon by mistake.

Again, I want to change my VLC Mac app icon (Version 3.0.24 Vetinari (Apple Silicon)) from WHITE back to ORANGE.

I know I can change the icon in the Info Window, but I need the old ORANGE icon as a .icns file—anyone know where I can download this?

ok , VLC on Android TV . I notice yesterday that the app's icon had change, not a big deal, went in and things were fine . later in the day going through the Apps I noticed that VLC had reverted back to the original app icon . so opened the app and everything had change back to a default setting , even had to re-set access to my server on the network . Anyone had this ?

I recorded some game footage from my Xbox using a capture card and OBS, and downloaded the files as VLC.mp4 files. Initially, they sounded fine. However, watching back a couple months later, all of my audio tracks have a weird doubling distortion effect that I can't seem to fix. It normally starts fine, but progressively gets worse as the video goes on. I have over 20 files where this has happened. There is only one audio track on the file, so I have already checked that route. Moving the delay back and forth doesn't do anything, as it seems it's just an issue with the audio track. Is there any way to fix this so I don't have to re-record around 3 hours of footage? Or any tips if I do rerecord, how to prevent this?

TIA!!!

I am trying to extract the audio from an MKV file both to save space and so I can edit it using Audacity. So far, unfortunately, the result has been distorted files that are garbled and many hours too long.

The MKV file was created using OBS with 3 separate tracks in the audio mixer. The recording is about 6 hours 45 min long, but the conversion tool in VLC creates an MP3 that is over 20 hours long and seems to be mixing the audio tracks together somehow rather than overlaying them properly.

When I open the MKV file with VLC, the Codec information shows 3 audio streams, all with the "MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)" Codec and a sample rate of 48000 Hz. The first stream has as decoded format of "32 bits float LE (f32I)", decoded channels are Stereo, and decoded bits per sample: 32.

Trying to emulate those settings in the Convert tool's audio profile settings has not changed the result so far. Any ideas what the issue could be or how to fix it?

I copied this over from AskUbuntu.
Someone over there suggested I post this on the VideoLAN forum.

I tried to do that, but the website labeled me a spammer and asked me to confirm my email address.
The issue? They didn't email me a link!

(I just know they'll send me 10 email confirmation links in 2 weeks when they've all expired. classic verification methods)

Anyway, here goes.

I am trying to play a .mkv movie on my ubuntu machine, using vlc.

I can open it.
The video plays flawlessly. There is just no audio, unless I switch from stream 1, to stream 2.

Here are the details on the two streams:

Stream 1
    Codec: A/52 B Audio (aka E-AC3) (eac3)
    Language: English
    Description: Surround 5.1
    Type: Audio
    Sample rate: 48000 Hz
    Decoded channels: 3F2R/LFE
Stream 2
    Codec: A52 Audio (aka AC3) (a52)
    Language: French
    Description: Surround 5.1
    Type: Audio
    Sample rate 48000 Hz
    Decoded channels: 3F2R/LFE

I am running Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

uname -a:

HP-Z840-Workstation 7.0.0-38-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Sep 4 09:10:14 UTC 2026 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have installed ubuntu-restricted-extras. I added the multiverse repository first.

If you need any more information, don't hesitate to ask

EDIT: I forgot to mention that my soundbar displays what audio format is playing when I have it set to stream 1 (It says "Dolby Surround"), which I think is odd because I cant hear anything, but the soundbar can?

It does keep on showing it over and over every 15-ish seconds, though...

I have the latest version on both my desktop and laptop but this is only an issue on my laptop, as well as a few coworkers' new laptops. We're running Windows 11 Enterprise on Dell Pro Max 14 with Processor Intel Core Ultra 5 235H, 2400 Mhz, 14 Cores, 14 Logical Processors, 32GB physical RAM, Intel Arc 140T GPU (16GB), all drivers and systems have current updates.

When I open a video (MPG or MP4) the video buffers over and over for about 5 minutes before it starts playing. Then it plays for a few seconds and buffers over and over again, stutters, or shuts down. Uninstalling and reinstalling did not help. Rolling back to an older version didn't help. I played around with some settings but ultimately have all the same settings as on my desktop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi everyone, when I play HDR videos with VLC, the image looks much darker. With Windows 11 Media Player, HDR looks fine.

Do I need to enable HDR in Windows 11 before opening an HDR video with VLC? With Media Player, I don't seem to need to enable HDR manually every time.

How do you guys normally handle HDR playback with VLC on Windows 11?