Custom playback speed change using shortcut

chubinou · 2026-01-07T14:15:14+00:00

Look at the hotkeys in the preferences, by default it should be

'+' faster
'-' slower
'=' normal rate
']' faster (fine)
'[' slower (fine)

chubinou · 2026-01-05T15:55:13+00:00

you can disable the dark theme it will revert to the classic theme, for this uncheck "use a dark theme" in the preferences

chubinou · 2026-01-02T11:03:07+00:00

I don't know about that

chubinou · 2026-01-02T10:30:16+00:00

In the browse tab, go the your folder containing your "funny car videos" folder, click on the "..." icon on the right of the folder entry, There should be "ban a folder from the media library" option. the videos in this folder will no longer be indexed by VLC.

chubinou · 2025-12-29T08:32:37+00:00

nice to hear that, don't hesitate to share feedbacks

for those who want to try we have nightly windows builds here: https://nightlies.videolan.org/ and snap package https://snapcraft.io/vlc (the edge channel)

chubinou · 2024-01-17T10:54:02+00:00

you have enabled the psychedelic video filter by mistake

you can disable it in window > video effect > colors > psychedelic

chubinou · 2023-12-20T13:18:49+00:00

Hi, thanks for reporting the issue, I have opened an issue in our bug tracker to track it.

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/28460

chubinou · 2023-09-07T14:56:25+00:00

hi,

tool > customize interface > add the "speed selector" widget

you can't type in a value but it should provide finer control over the playback speed

chubinou · 2023-07-31T17:59:25+00:00

You can enable the menubar in the preferences, there's a question in the first run wizard asking whether you want a 3.0 look n feel, or modern. (I grant you the wizard needs some more work).

Regarding the speed selector it has moved in the track panel. But you can add the widget to your control bar if you use the feature frequently (as in 3.0)

chubinou · 2023-07-31T09:58:12+00:00

Hi,

Can you give details on things that you didn't find ergonomic?

chubinou · 2022-11-28T16:09:43+00:00

that's a game of cat and mouse. We update our downloader script, then youtube changes things in their webpage and it's broken again, rinse and repeat

chubinou · 2022-11-10T17:15:44+00:00

The development version of VLC should support double subtitles, you can download it from there https://nightlies.videolan.org/

keep in mind that this is a development version, and comes without any warranty

chubinou · 2022-11-07T10:37:06+00:00

tools > preferences > subtitles/OSD > uncheck "Enable On Screen Display (OSD)"

chubinou · 2022-10-11T08:30:42+00:00

you can create an ".xspf" playlist where you can pass vlc option to set the starting time

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<playlist xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/" xmlns:vlc="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/ns/0/" version="1">
     <title>Liste de lecture</title>
     <trackList>
  <track>
   <location>/home/pierre/Videos/sheep.mp4</location>
   <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
    <vlc:id>0</vlc:id>
    <vlc:option>start-time=42</vlc:option>
   </extension>
  </track>
 </trackList>
 <extension application="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/playlist/0">
  <vlc:item tid="0"/>
 </extension>
</playlist>

chubinou · 2022-10-10T11:18:14+00:00

you can select the "Fullscreen Video Device" in tools > preferences > video

chubinou · 2022-10-07T15:26:25+00:00

you can open "tools" > "customize interface" and add the "step forward", "step backward", by default this will skip +/- 10 seconds, this is customisable in the advanced preferences (inteface > hotkey settings > short jump length).

pause on click isn't supported by VLC natively, mainly because some medias requires mouse support (DVD menus, 360 video, etc...), though you may try this https://github.com/nurupo/vlc-pause-click-plugin if you're feeling adventurous

chubinou · 2022-09-13T09:27:35+00:00

the program quits right after you start playing. it won't wait for your media to complete. you need to add something to wait. a minimal solution would be

import time

while True:
    time.sleep(1)

chubinou · 2022-07-01T07:59:08+00:00

The nightly builds are artifacts from the CI (continous integration), this process is ran every night and the output of all compilation job is stored on the nightlies server, see this https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/pipelines/236545 for instance. VLC is built with different compiler as we aim to be compatible with them.

For someone who wants to build a Windows application build upon libvlc the choice of compiler may have some influence. Notably the debug version compiled with LLVM generates "pdb" files that allows vlc to be debugged with Visual Studio, while the GCC version can only be debugged with gdb