Skip to main content

All Questions

Tagged with
32 votes
12 answers
61k views

VLC shows two windows for one video

I've updated my VLC Player on the Mac and now I have two windows for one video. How can I disable this, so it works the old way?
antpaw's user avatar
  • 534
23 votes
6 answers
45k views

How does one playback MIDI files on Mac OS X?

I’m on Mac OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite and in the past, I used VLC Media Player in combination with FluidSynth to play back MIDI sound files, but according to the answer to this question, this option is no ...
brian-ammon's user avatar
6 votes
2 answers
22k views

How to Select Audio Output Device in VLC player?

On Mac OS, is there a way to select the audio output device? I want to change the audio output from internal speakers to my Sennheiser USB headset.
dmitry747's user avatar
  • 363
6 votes
2 answers
15k views

Subtitles not displaying correctly in VLC

VLC player is not showing subtitles correctly. It's just showing capital "A"s in place of the correct text. Please check the screenshot attached to this post. Do I need to install a missing font? How ...
user54879's user avatar
  • 223
3 votes
2 answers
6k views

How to fix VLC sorting playlist wrongly?

Scenario: VLC 3.08, the playlist have more than 20 tracks and is sorted as follow 1. VideoA 2. VideoB (...) 11.VideoX 12.VideoY (...) 20.Video Z (...) Problem: The sorting by title ends up like this ...
Layon Tavares's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
1k views

Desktop Hyperlink to Specific time in a video

Using a Spreadsheet, I pasted this URL in: file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/username/Tutorials/Photoshop/Using Layers.mp4 When I click on it, it opens up the video in VLC and it ...
Matt Shalvatis's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
4k views

Subtitles in VLC streamer

Does anyone know how to present srt subtitles using VLC media streamer? (iMac to iPad, not that it should matter I guess). I have made sure the subtitle file name is exactly the same as the movie, but ...
JohnRos's user avatar
  • 151
2 votes
1 answer
2k views

Macbook Pro suddenly lagging video playback + Flash sites

I have a Macbook Pro, OSx Lion, Intel Core2 Duo, 4GB Ram, NVidia Geforce 8600M GT 128 MB Ram, Intel x25m SSD. Approximately 4 years old. I've been running Flash sites and playing videos without any ...
Mathias's user avatar
  • 21
2 votes
0 answers
403 views

VLC: Play on Fullscreen

(Mac OS 10.6.8 Snow Leopard) Is there any way, to configure VLC to start playing paused videos when it enters fullscreen mode like in older versions of QuickTime (or newer versions with this ...
Orion751's user avatar
  • 334
1 vote
4 answers
2k views

Mac OS X - .AVI Video distortion in VLC

When playing .AVI files on VLC (1.1.3 / Mac OS X 10.6.2) I often get intermittent distortion in the video. It breaks up into squares and bits of previous video are mixed with the current video. It's ...
Ambrose's user avatar
  • 173
1 vote
1 answer
220 views

A/V Controls button for Slow motion in QuickTime Player (10.5)?

I find that Apple answers this question Slow motion in QuickTime Player (10.5) in Mac? From https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250493652 You can use the keyboard shortcuts below for slow motion ...
wonderich's user avatar
  • 111
1 vote
1 answer
44 views

Mac Mini High Sierra Res Resolution issue

I have a Mac Mini running onHigh Sierra that I'm using as a media PC (running on a generic Sansui TV) I'm having a resolution switching issue. Problem I have is that if/when the Mac starts before the ...
Carl Visagie's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
282 views

browsing music in cover art in vlc

Is it possible to activate a cover art view for the music library in vlc? I mean something like you can see in iTunes. I am running vlc under osX and I can't find the appropriate preference.
mijc's user avatar
  • 111
1 vote
0 answers
653 views

Broadcast video sound on airplay VLC

I would like to broadcast my video sound on my IHome device with airplay and watch video on my mac book. It is possible to do that ? I know you can broadcast music with airplay, broadcast full video ...
Kiva's user avatar
  • 243
0 votes
2 answers
794 views

Applescript to get name with VLC 2.0 should work but doesn't

I'm trying to get the name of the current file playing in VLC. Applescript SHOULD be able to do this with VLC 2 and on (it's in the dictionary, "name of current item") however it keeps not compiling, ...
user1159454's user avatar

15 30 50 per page