VLC - need help with launch command

craptakular · 7 Dec 2008 at 17:03

hi,

I need to start vlc with this in terminal vlc -Vx11 to stop the choppy vids.

How do I make vlc always launch with those parameters?

JIM_BOB7813 · 7 Dec 2008 at 18:15

Replace /bin/vlc (or where ever it is /usr/bin/...) with a bash script that runs the vlc executable.

So move /bin/vlc to /bin/vlcexe
Create a file /bin/vlc

Put the following into the new file (/bin/vlc)

Code:

#!/bin/bash
/bin/vlcexe -Vx11

There may be a better way, you could edit your shortcut in KDE or gnome, or there may be some settings file somewhere that will allow you to turn it on, but this way should work.

z0mbi3 · 7 Dec 2008 at 20:34

JIM_BOB7813 said:
There may be a better way, you could edit your shortcut in KDE or gnome, or there may be some settings file somewhere that will allow you to turn it on, but this way should work.

You can go into the advanced options and get vlc to output in x11 permanently. It's what I've done to get videos playing nicely with compiz.

craptakular · 7 Dec 2008 at 22:06

thanks guys, after some extreme searching deep, deep, deep inside VLC's options I have changed the settings! Choppy video is fixed!

FYI: I have also fixed choppy playback in totem by running gstreamer-properties in terminal and selecting x11 as my video.

Happy days.

z0mbi3 · 8 Dec 2008 at 08:54

Oxy said:
thanks guys, after some extreme searching deep, deep, deep inside VLC's options I have changed the settings! Choppy video is fixed!

FYI: I have also fixed choppy playback in totem by running gstreamer-properties in terminal and selecting x11 as my video.

Happy days.

That's good to know. I had switched to VLC as my default web video player because of this. VLC isn't up to scratch in the browser.

craptakular · 8 Dec 2008 at 09:18

z0mbi3 said:
That's good to know. I had switched to VLC as my default web video player because of this. VLC isn't up to scratch in the browser.

glad it helped someone!

Happy christmas!