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<chapter id="gui"><title id="tgui">The Graphical User Interface</title>
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<sect1><title>Opening a stream</title>
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<para>To open a stream using the graphical interface, click on either
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:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>"File" to open a file stored on your hard
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drive.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>"Disc" to read a DVD or a VCD.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>"Network" to read a network UDP stream
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or an HTTP stream.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>"Satellite" to read directly from a satellite
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card.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>These four buttons, as well as the ones located in the "File"
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menu, actually open the same dialog box, but on different tabs.</para>
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<sect2><title>The "open a stream" dialog box</title>
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<para>You can specify directly the Media Resource Locator MRL, if you
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know the syntax that you have to use, but you may also use the different
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tabs, that will fill it automatically.</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>For a <command>File</command>, this is very simple, you
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only have to fill the path to the file.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>For a <command>Disc</command>, you select
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the type of the disk, the path to the drive (looks like
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<filename>/dev/dvd</filename> on Unix, or <filename>D:</filename> on
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Windows), and the starting title and chapter.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>For a <command>Network stream</command> :
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>if you use unicast mode, select <command>UDP</command>
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and the port used,</para>
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<listitem><para>if you use multicast, select <command>UDP
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multicast</command>, enter the multicast address and the port ;</para>
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<listitem><para>if you have a channel information service with
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mini-VLCS, select <command>Channel server</command>, and give its
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address ;</para>
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<listitem><para>if you use HTTP streaming
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to do Video On Demand, select <command>HTTP</command> and give the
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address of your stream.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>For a <command>Satellite stream</command>, you have to
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give the frequency, the rate, the polarization, and the FEC of your
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stream.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Basic stream control</title>
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<para>You have at your disposal all the classical control of a video
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player. For example when playing local streams or HTTP streams, you can
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pause, speed up or slow down the stream, go forth and back... Just use
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the corresponding buttons. </para>
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<para>To go fullscreen, you can select the right options in the
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<emphasis>view</emphasis> menu, or press <keycap>f</keycap>. To go
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back to the normal mode, press <keycap>f</keycap>.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>DVD and VCD navigation</title>
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<para>When reading a DVD or a VCD, you can change chapter and titles as
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you wish either by using the right-click menu or by using the options in
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the "Parameters" menu. These options are enabled only when you play a
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disk, or a disk through the network. </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Programs, languages and subtitles</title>
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<para>When reading a multiprogram stream, you can change the current
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program by selecting it in the "View/Programs" submenu on the bar, or by
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using the "right click" menu from the video output window. You can also
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change the title and the chapter by the same way.</para>
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<para>In DVDs, if different angles are availables, they will be treated as
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different programs.</para>
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<para>At any time you can change the audio/subtitles channel using either the
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"setting" menu from the interface or using the "right click" menu from
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the video output window.</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Preferences window</title>
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<para>By choosing "Preferences" in the "Settings" menu, you will open
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the preferences window. This window is generated dynamically according
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to the modules that were compiled.</para>
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<para>In every tab, you may click on "Save" to store your
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settings in your configuration file. (you can find it in
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<command>~/.vlc/vlcrc</command> on Unix/Linux systems, or in
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<command>Application Data\vlc\vlcrc</command> </para>
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<sect2><title>Interface tab</title>
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<para>In that tab, you can select which interface you would like
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to use on next start. Click on the choosen interface, click on
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<command>Select</command> then on <command>Save</command>.</para>
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<para>There can be some configuration options available by clicking
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<command>Configure</command>. This depends on the interface
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chosen.</para>
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<para>There are also a few generic settings, like color message or
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setting the verbosity level of the logs. You can also specify the
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path to the interface or to the plugin if they are not in the default
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directory. [FIX : compare with settings on other OS, where is the
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default file?] </para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Audio tab</title>
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<para> In this tab, you can select and configure the audio output
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you would like to use on next start (this works juste like for the
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interface). You may also specify other settings such as enabling
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or disabling the audio output, the output volume level, the audio
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frequency, the number of channels on output, add desynchronization, or
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set audio output format and headphone spazialization effect.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Video tab</title>
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<para>In this tab, you can select which video output will be used on
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next start, and add a video filter module, which means a filter that
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will alter the rendered image. For more information on modules, please
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look the Modules section. You may also specify some video settings, such
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as the window size, if you would like fullscreen display or the video
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zoom.</para>
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<para>By using the <command>adjust</command> video filter module, you
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will be able to modify the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Hue of
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the video output.</para>
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<para>There are also specific modules as wall which cut the output in
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many windows to make a video wall, transform module to rotate the image
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or invert module to invert the colors (who said it's useless?)</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Input tab</title>
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<para>In this tab, you can enter the input method with options by
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default that will be used on next start.</para>
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<para>Note that these are only <emphasis>default options</emphasis>,
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which means that they will be written in the appropriate field, but, you
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can of course change them.</para>
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<para>You can configure the default addresses and port for network
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streaming :</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>the server port for UDP streaming,</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>the server port for UDP multicast streaming</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>the channel server adress and the channel server if you have a channel information service based on mini-VLCS.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Here you also can choose which network interface the videolan
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client will use to get the stream and the address of this interface.</para>
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<para>The other options allow you to choose audio, channel, subtitles,
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the device of the DVD, the device of the VCD and the IP protocol of the
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stream (IPv6 or IPv4).</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Decoders tab</title>
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<para>In this tab, you can select which decoder (codec) you want to use
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for audio or video decoders. VLC normally automatically detects the
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right codec to use, so be sure to know what you are doing.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Stream ouput</title>
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<para>In this tab you can configure the stream output capabilities.</para>
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<para>Stream output is a new feature of VLC which allow you to save
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the stream that you are watching to a file, or to stream it in unicast or multicast.</para>
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<para>This tab allows you to set up some options for this. You will
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be able to select the muxer used for the stream, ie PS, TS or AVI. PS
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and TS are parts of the MPEG norm. PS stands for Program Stream, it is
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usually used for files, whereas TS stands for Transport Stream, which
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is rather used for network streams. AVI means output to an AVI file or
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stream.</para>
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<para>You may also select the <emphasis>access output</emphasis>,
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i.e. what the strem will be output to. You can choose
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beetween <emphasis>UDP</emphasis> (network stream) or
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<emphasis>file</emphasis>.</para>
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<para>The Packetizer is the format of the output.</para>
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<para>You can also enable or disable audio or video.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>CPU tab</title>
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<para>This tab is dedicated to enabling or disabling support for
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CPU extensions: MMX support (every processors since Pentium MMX),
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3D! Now Support (for AMD K6-2, K6-3, Athlon and Duron processors),
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MMX EXT support, and SSE support (for Pentium III and Pentium IV
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processors).</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Playlist tab</title>
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<para>In this tab, you can select some playlist options, such as looping
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the playlist, automatically launching the playlist on VLC's start, enqueue
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items in it or randomly read the files.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>Miscellanous tab</title>
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<para> In this tab, you can select which memcpy version you want to use.
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Some of them uses MMX or 3Dnow! extensions. You can also select the
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access module (module used to get the stream) and the the demux module
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(used to ... demux the stream).</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1><title>Miscellaneous</title>
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<sect2><title>The Messages Window</title>
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<para>This window is available by clicking on
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<emphasis>Messages</emphasis> in the <emphasis>View</emphasis> menu. It
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shows all the debug messages of VLC. If you have a problem with VLC,
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don't hesitate to open this window, as it may contain an interesting
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error message.</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2><title>The Playlist</title>
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<para>VLC includes a simple playlist management system. By using the
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buttons which are in the playlist window, you can easily add or remove
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streams (whether these are files, disks, network streams, or satellites
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streams).</para>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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</chapter>
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