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.. title: Getting videos to work correctly in OpenLP using VLC.
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.. slug: 2012/12/04/getting-videos-work-correctly-openlp-using-vlc
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.. date: 2012-12-04 14:12:01 UTC
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.. description:
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|VLC|
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Videos are a great way to enhance the worship experience. Sermon
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illustrations, home grown videos for announcements before or after a
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service, showing videos to help set a “mood” of worship before a service
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starts or through a multitude of other creative ways, videos can be
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effective tools for worship. OpenLP has the ability to play videos as
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part of the service using the
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`Media <http://manual.openlp.org/mediamanager.html#media>`_ tab. You
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simply add your video, or audio to OpenLP then use it as you do a song
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or Bible verses in your service. Easy.
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If this works for you, don’t read any further, but what if you set up
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OpenLP and videos do not perform correctly? Actually, if videos work for
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you keep on reading anyway you might still need this someday. We are
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going to walk through a sure fire way of getting videos working in
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OpenLP without a lot of work.
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First, lets look at how OpenLP plays videos. OpenLP uses resources
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already installed on your computer to play videos. That is enough
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detail, if you want to do an in-depth look at audio and video codecs by
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all means please do but just understand in theory if your computer will
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play a file, OpenLP “should” play this file also. Theories are great,
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but as with many this theory fails many times in practice. In the past
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the solution was to install codec packs and do a variety of other rather
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hackish things with hopes that videos would work. This is no longer the
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case, thanks to another open source project
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ paired with OpenLP 2.0.
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If you have not heard of
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ lets just put it this
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way it is the premier media player, regardless of operating system. If
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ won’t play your file,
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stop, nothing will play your file. That may not be entirely the case,
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but chances are if
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ won’t play it nothing
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will. So what does this have to do with OpenLP you ask? Remember OpenLP
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uses resources on your computer to play videos and with
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ installed OpenLP can
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use this most awesome media player to take care of all of your media
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problems.
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The first step is to download
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ from
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`HERE <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_. If you are running a
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Linux distro it should be available using your distro’s package manager.
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You will need version 2.0.3 or above to work correctly. Once you have
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ installed we are just
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about finished.
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Now we need to tell OpenLP to use
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ to play all media.
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Don’t worry you won’t regret this and if you do you can always change
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this setting back. Go to Settings, then click on Configure OpenLP. You
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should now be greeted by a window that looks similar to this:
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|Configure OpenLP|
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Click on Media on the left hand panel to enter the media settings. You
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should see a list of available media players. Click on the check box to
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enable `VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_. In the player
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order box, click on VLC and use the up arrow to promote it to the top of
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the list. You can also disable all the other media players if you wish.
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If you check the “Allow media player to be overridden” check box you can
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change the player on the fly from the
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`Media <http://manual.openlp.org/mediamanager.html#media>`_ tab in the
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`Media
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Manager <http://manual.openlp.org/glossary.html#g-media-manager>`_.
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This is a good option for some users, but really if you are using VLC
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you shouldn’t need to do this.
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|Media Configuration|
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That is it, you should now be able to play about any video you will ever
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get your hands on.
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**Note:** If you install
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_ while OpenLP is running
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you will need to restart OpenLP after installing
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`VLC <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html>`_.
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.. |VLC| image:: /pictures/VLMC-Icon.png
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.. |Configure OpenLP| image:: /pictures/configuregeneral.png
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.. |Media Configuration| image:: /pictures/configuremedia.png
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