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Any way to edit metadata of MKV files (without re-encoding)?
The MKVToolNix GUI way:
From the menu choose header editor.
Open the mkv file.
Under segment information there is a title item, change title as you wish.
There is not a save button, use the main ...
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Any way to edit metadata of MKV files (without re-encoding)?
As an addition one could use mkvpropedit in a bash script to set the title of all mkv files in a directory. (Given the filename is the desired title.)
#!/bin/bash
# This script takes all mkv files in ...
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How do I vary the playback speed in VLC using keyboard shortcuts?
use '[' and ']' keyboard input for decreasing and increasing the speed respectively.
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Streaming media from Mac to VLC for Android
You can just enable guests to access shared folders. Go to Users and Groups and give access to Guests to Shared folders/Sharing.
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Any way to edit metadata of MKV files (without re-encoding)?
Just open the file in VLC player, Ctrl+I, choose the desired Metadata, title etc, change and then in the bottom, click 'Save Data'. That's all.
No other external editor is needed.
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Customize toolbar of VLC
It is indeed missing functionality. You can add (but not change the positions of) some media play buttons like Previous, Next and Show Equalizer to the interface toolbar using Preferences... under the ...
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Starting VLC from command line always puts the window behind other windows
If you wish to use command-line to:
open a media file with VLC player
or
simply launch VLC player
simply execute the following in the terminal emulator of your choice, respectively for above cases:...
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How to load a subtitle file in VLC for Apple TV
Changing the subtitle file name so that it has the same file name as the movie worked for me.
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Streaming media from Mac to VLC for Android
TL;DR
On most *nix systems Android included to login with a a user name which has a space you'd escape the space with a \, ie. John\ Doe The \ will allow the OS / shell to know that a special ...
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Start a video at a specific time using terminal
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --start-time 30 your_video.mp4
See Documentation:Command line for other options.
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Is it possible to show the playlist and video for VLC at the same time?
Prefs > Video > Show video within the main window
Uncheck for separate playback window
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iTunes automatically pauses when VLC plays a file
After a long search, I realized the setting to pause iTunes when VLC starts is not in iTunes. It's in VLC.
To disable this, open the VLC preferences and click the "Show All" button in the ...
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Missing sound in videos recorded with iOS 11
Apparently, iOS 11 records a video with two audio tracks: the first one completely silent, while the second one is the real one. You can fix it with ffmpeg like this
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -map 0:0 -map ...
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What is the current method to set a larger cache size for VLC player on a Mac?
VLC Preferences → Show All → Input / Codecs → Advanced (scroll down) → File caching (ms) and Network caching (ms). File caching is used when using the standard Open File functionality, even if the ...
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How to see the current playback speed in VLC?
You can also setup the OnScreenDisplay which will display playback speed changes, step forwards, step backwards and other changes during playback.
Go to VLC -> Preferences -> Subtitles/OSD -> Enable ...
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How to record video stream with VLC on OSX?
I would avoid VLC if you want to record streams off the Internet. After many months of trying to figure it out, it came down to an issue with with their codec not working propertly via command line.
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Playing AVI files in macOS using VLC
VLC for macOS is available and is regularly updated, just like VLC for Ubuntu. If you can play a file using VLC in Ubuntu, it can also be played by VLC on macOS.
You can download VLC for macOS here.
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Get file path of movie playing in VLC
That's an easy one
osascript -e 'tell application "VLC" to get path of current item'
That returns the path to the currently playing movie. If you want more I suggest you select "Open Dictionary.." ...
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VLC 3: Adding file to existing playlist (enqueue)
To add a file to VLC playlist from the command line (without starting a new instance) use the following syntax:
open -a /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC <your_media>
To prevent VLC ...
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No audio for mp4 files in Quicktime and ITunes but works for VLC
MP4 is a container format,the audio codec format could be aac mp3 ac3,etc.
iTunes and QuickTime can’t support all those codecs.You can use mediainfo to check the exact audio codec format.
You can see ...
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Critical VLC media player security flaw. Remove VLC from my Mac?
Assuming you have macOS installed on your Mac and you’re talking about the macOS version of VLC, then you do not need to remove VLC at all.
According to CERT-Bund, the highly respected German ...
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How to prevent VLC from setting as default player?
Right-click (Control click) on the type of file you want to always open with Elmedia. Click 'Get Info'.
In the 'Open With' section, select Elmedia from the drop-down menu. To apply this change to ...
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vlc: convert multiple files
HandBrake is the tool of choice to batch-convert video files.
If you want to use VLC, check out the script at https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/Transcode_multiple_videos/.
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Launching a video via VLC directly from MacOS command line without any playlist interaction
The following example works for me in Terminal with default setting in VLC and starts the video immediately:
open -a VLC '/path/to/filename.mp4'
In reference to the comment by HippoMan:
I also often ...
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How to record video stream with VLC on OSX?
Since Mac apps are actually packages (EG special kinds of folders filled with files) you need to specify the path to the actual executable within the package:
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC ...
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Getting keystrokes on VLC via AppleScript
You don't need to tell VLC to perform the keystroke.
tell application "VLC"
open MyFile
activate
end tell
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "f" using command down
end tell
I ...
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Why is VLC verified every time I open a file that is supposed to open with it?
I had the exact same issue. I think it happened because I tried to open a video file using Open With while the VLC dmg was still mounted (even though I did properly install VLC to /Applications/VLC....
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Get file path of movie playing in VLC
Unix & Linux suggests a generic way using lsof:
lsof -wc VLC | awk '$4~"[0-9]r" && $5=="REG"' | grep -o '/.*'
This method includes a couple of system files too, but these can be easily ...
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Mojave: Trimming video in Finder doesn't work
Expanding from comments I left earlier this morning. While I don't know Apple's exact process, here is what I surmise is going on:
Apple does not want to have to re-encode (recompress) your video. ...
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