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--- vlc [2024/02/01 03:10] – vlc-plugin-pipewire rjt
+++ vlc [2025/06/23 02:27] (current) – black screen video fix rjt
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 VLC doesn't have built-in support for [[Pipewire]] yet, but you can add it with [[https://www.remlab.net/vlc-plugin-pipewire/|vlc-plugin-pipewire]] ([[aur>vlc-plugin-pipewire]]). After installing you just need to go into the audio tab in preferences and set Pipewire as your output device.
-{{tag>audio guide video-capture software}}
+===== Screenshots =====
+You can customise the file names screen shots are given with variables:
+https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Format_String/
+Some useful ones:
+  * ''$N'' - Name, as in the one you see in the VLC playlist, so depends on metadata and fallsback to file name.
+  * ''$F'' - Full name with path.
+  * ''$A'' - Date.
+===== Streams =====
+Did you know you can put an [[RSS]] feed into the Streams URL entry? Handy for podcasts, especially as VLC will let you skip ahead to avoid ads :^)
+===== Skip ahead/back ======
+On Android the skip ahead/back function for audio is a little hidden.
+You can make buttons for it appears in the notification thingo.
+In the normal app window you have to switch to //cover mode// for the controls to appear. Press the Hamburger-with-little-play-button-icon to change to this mode. https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-android/-/issues/2263#note_293617
+===== Fixes =====
+Suddenly got an issue where some videos (downloaded off [[youtube]] were playing audio-only.
+Advice online was to make sure the 'Output' setting in the 'Video' section was set to [[OpenGL]], but this didn't help me. What did help was enabling hardware acelleration in 'Input/Codecs' (for [[AMD]] VA-API, [[Nvidia]] VDPAU).
+{{tag>audio guide video-capture software fixes}}