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I'm trying to use VLC's file conversion feature to convert movies into AVI files that my portable DVD player can play. Is there a way to do it without it coming out like complete garbage and muted?

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?

u/Swoopsling — 7 days ago
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Audio/Music Subtitles

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?

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u/Slight-Tea-5538 — 5 days ago
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Converting a stream link to save. Only first few seconds of video play, than freezes

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

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u/ArabianKnightGaming — 6 days ago
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Accidentally Deleted All Videos in VLC on Android – Any Way to Recover Them?

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!

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u/lonleythinker — 5 days ago
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VLC mobile player question

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?

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u/Alex_Portnoy007 — 6 days ago
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[Feature request]Here's an idea.. What if there was a subtitle format text file that was read by VLC and actually overlayed video scenes on top of the movie at certain times. Thereby replacing scenes automatically .... ala scenes in Odyssey or R rated movies for kids, etc.

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.

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u/RonUSMC — 6 days ago
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Cannot playback some 1080p h.265 Videos via SMB on Sony Bravia 4K VH21

Model #KD-75X85K

I've been having terrible issues trying to playback some h.265 (1080p 3284kbps 23fps) media off my home server via SMB.

The video freezes and lags after about 2 seconds of playback while the audio continues to play. The controls become unresponsive and sometimes the screen goes black with the audio still playing and the only fix is to turn the TV off and turn it back on again.

The audio codec is TrueHD 5.1/2.0 1476kbps 32bit 48,000khz if that's relevant, but the audio seems to playback just fine.

There are several BDPGS subtitle tracks.

h.265 is on the supported codec list for my TV.

The manual (page 65) also seems to indicate support.

It seems like TrueHD is NOT supported in apps and only works over HDMI on this TV due to licensing issues.

But the sound seems to play perfectly regardless. I also have other media with TrueHD tracks that have no issues playing back. Heck I also have tons media with tracks encoded in DTSHD-MA, Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Atmos which should definitely NOT be supported in hardware and those files also work just fine

I have other h.265 media in 4K 35,000kbps 24fps with TrueHD Audio with BDPGS subs which playback perfectly.

I also have lots of 4K files encoded in AV1 (2541kbps) with Opus Audio which are also not supported in hardware which work just fine.

The files playback just fine over my network in VLC for Windows over 1gbps Ethernet via SMB.

The files also playback perfectly on my phone in VLC for Android over 5G Wi-Fi via SMB.

I've tried:

  • Disabling hardware acceleration (much worse)
  • Forcing full acceleration (slight improvement, but still un-watchable)
  • Enabling frame skipping (no improvement)
  • Increasing network caching to 30,000ms (slight improvement)
  • Switching from wired ethernet (100mbps on this TV) to 5G Wi-Fi (speed test gets 201mbps) (no improvement)
  • Forcing OpenGL ES 2 (much worse)
  • Forcing OpenGL ES 2 for audio (worse)
  • Forcing Digital Audio Output (no improvement)
  • Disabling SMB1.0 (no difference, I'm pretty sure my server only does 3.0)
  • Disabling Block Filtering (slight improvement, still un-watchable)
  • Disabling Automatic Subtitle Loading (read there was a bug with this) (no improvement)
  • Updating VLC (Google Play says it's the latest version)
  • Updating the TV OS (already up-to-date)
  • Restarting the TV via settings menu (to clear RAM) (no difference)
  • Clearing the Cache (no difference)

So is this an unfixable issue with the hardware decoder in the TV? Despite the fact that other similar files work?

I would hate to have to re-encode this, I've got close to 1TB of media encoded this way. 😂

Thanks in advance.

u/NegativeMaterial8971 — 11 days ago
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How to make an album?

So I have the songs downloaded onto my pc and vlc on both my pc and phone. Its quite a lot of songs and I don't want them mixed in with my regular music. So how do I make a separate album when I transfer them to my phone?

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u/Doomboy911 — 13 days ago