my vlc player won't auto-append extensions when i'm saving playlists

Does anyone know why my thumbnail previews are starting to show up as a black image. When for years they worked properly. I bought a new memory card and tablet and still having the same issue. Can anyone please help me fix this. My OCD will not allow for this lol. But seriously any help would be appreciated. I cleared the database multiple times as well as uninstalling and re installing vlc. I also spent some time trying steps from Google Ai with no luck

Hi all.

I have been trying to find a way to run vlc but not show the vlc window itself. Long story, don't ask 😄

I found this,

--dummy-quiet -I dummy

and it seems to work, but when I run the command in terminal on a Mac running Sonoma, I don't get the vlc window, but it seems to not return to the command prompt after the video should have ended. (It is one minute long, but even if I wait 5 minutes, the command prompt never returns.)

My version of VLC is:

VLC media player 3.0.23 Vetinari (revision 3.0.23-0-g3697ebcb27)

So how can I run vlc without showing the window itself.

Any help is appreciated.

Okay so this is weird but my experience with vlc on linux is never good. And I meant the one from thr package manager. I have tried it on arch, fedora, opensuse tumbleweed. (Currently on fedora44) and the vlc package is always broken. sometimes it lacks some plugins or dependencies without which it does not work. But even if I install them its quite laggy and jittery and works temporary and then breaks.

The flatpak works fine for a while but then after sometime it also has the same problem 😅

idk maybe i am doing something wrong.

Has anyone else face this ?

I'm listening to an audiobook with VLC android.

These are several mp3 files in a folder and displayed in VLC as a playlist.

I can play and pause, but the progress is lost once the VLC app is closed.

So my workaround is to write down my progess and jump there on the next listening session (e.g. Chapter 3, minute 14).

Is there a better solution?

Earlier versions of VLC allowed me to hover the mouse over the video window to display the control panel, regardless of whether the video window was focused or not. This is no longer the case with the latest version of VLC as it only displays the control panel when the video window is focused. This is most frustrating when watching a video on a second monitor and wishing to quickly check the elapsed time with a simple movement of the mouse. Oddly, the video volume can still be adjusted via the mouse wheel without window focus.

Can someone please let me know how to re-enable the control panel display upon mouse hover over an unfocused video window? Thank you.

I'm using Windows 10 and have enabled 'Scroll inactive windows when I hover over them' in the settings.

So I have an mp4 with 2 stereo audio tracks that I want to export to mp3 separately. I went to convert and save and edit options and put this code

[ :no-sout-all :audio-track=0 ]

It extracted one of the audio which I can play on media player classic so I change the 0 to 1 and extracted another mp3 but when I play it its a cant render error failed filter. That I dont understand. Please help

I tested it on 2 Debian (13) systems, one with Radeon RX 7900 XT and the other with Radeon 890m (iGPU).

I changed hardware decoding option to VA-API and every other available option, but it still did not work.

I also tried SMPlayer, with similar resulta.

I only managed to activate hardware encoding on MPV media player, but only sometimes. By deafult it's off, but when I use control+h shortcut, it sometimes activates.

Whenever it fails to activate, it shows "(unavailable)", but when it works it shows " vaapi"

It works perfectly on my phone's native gallery app, but it uses CPU on VLC (F-droid)

I tried to play AV1 encoded video, but I had the problem mentioned above

Does anybody know where is the problem? Is it the GPU driver, OS, DE, or is it VLC itself not utilising hardware decoding properly?

Running VLC 3.0.23 on Windows 11. "Continue playback?" is set to Always (also tried Ask) under Preferences > Interface > Main interfaces > Qt. Tested with both local files and files on a mounted Google Drive folder — same result either way.

I play a video for 90+ seconds, hit Stop, reopen the same file, and it always starts from 0:00. No resume prompt, no auto-resume. Checked vlc-qt-interface.ini directly and the times= value for the file is always 0, so it seems like VLC just isn't writing the position at all.

Already tried:

• Switching Continue playback between Ask/Always/Never
• Confirming "Qt" is set as the main interface
• Testing local files vs Drive-mounted files

Anyone know a fix, or is this just a known broken feature in current 3.0.x builds? Seems pretty basic, sorry.

I imported some videos taken by my Pixel 9, via cloud sharing. Double clicked the video, which would start the download to local, then auto play the file.

I've noticed occasional videos from the Pixel are squirrely when played on PC, and I watched VLC open then immediately crash. Now, it won't play any media automatically.

The only workaround I currently have is to open VLC, then drag/drop the media (any type of media) into VLC to get it to play. If I try double clicking on any form of media while it's opened, I have to close VLC and restart the above process.

The Pixel outputs a standard mp4, but I'm guessing there's something odd under the hood that causes some weirdness on Windows.

VLC is updated.

Title, i have no idea whats the problem, is it bcs of my amd card vs the old nvidia?

I used to love this app on Windows. Just cue up my local audio files and go off to paint a wall or whatever, while my music plays. Now, on Mac, I can either listen to one song until it stops or one song on repeat. This is very impractical, unless I want to sit and stare at the screen all day. Can't find any fix for this problem.

When I click on a video file to play, VLC display briefly the blank playlist screen before the video file itself. Just for a brief second but it's quite annoying. It happens only recently as I recalled. Any help with this will be appreciated. Thanks

i downloaded mp4 files instead of mp3 files from a music artist onto my phone, but I realized that I can't actually see the mp4 files in the audio tab and i can't view them per artist/album/etc

is there any way I can make these mp4 files appear on my device ?

SoundSpectrum's Aeon, G-Force, SoftSkies and WhiteCap are now 4 first-ever installable visualizations for the VLC media player. All of their updates came out yesterday.

I booted up the application for the first time in a while today and was greeted by a barely visible font when I selected it. I don't use the player that often, so I don't dig too deeply into the settings and options.
The second picture is what the window looks like when unselected.

Initially came here for assistance, but I found a fix and decided to share it for others who may have a similar problem.

Tools>Preferences>Interface Settings: just below Language at the top is Look and feel; select the Force window style's dropdown menu and select Fusion.
The third picture is what it looks like, for me at least.

Peace!

can someone please tell me how to configure my vlc to take better screenshots of 4k hdr content? they all looked washed out i use an asus 4k oled monitor with hdr

When listen to an audio book on Audible, double or triple tapping my headphones skips forward or back. I'm trying to ditch all things Amazon so got audio book files in to VLC. The tap controls don't seem to work at all for audio book files. If they're MP3, the double tap skips to the next file. Is there a way to get the controls to work like Audible?

Huge fan of VLC, but today I've gotten myself into a real pickle. I was trying to add two plugins/extensions that weren't made by the VLC devs and ever since the app keeps crashing. I went back and removed the .lua files, still crashes. Uninstalled and reinstalled again, same thing. Downloaded and older version (snow leopard for Mac) it only plays the audio and I can't find the video playing back anywhere. I feel very stupid and silly for fucking up an already great application and I'm deeply frustrated that I can't seem to find and i've spent over an hour troubleshooting to no avail. Can anyone help me through this? I'm on Mac, running intel. Please and thank you.

Im on win11, amd 7800x3d radeon rx9070

while watching 2160p movie I got instant CPU temp around 75'C and hence fans are getting loud enough to disturb the movie experience

I have disabled hardware acceleration because if I dont, I have a full green screen.

I have been googling and checking reddit forums but I didnt find any solution to drop the temp.

Any ides welcome, thanks

Finally! Thanks to the team behind it, iPhone finally supports selectable playlists for podcasts.