There are several media players available in the market today to play DVD’s and VCD’s. But VLC Media Player is a very versatile and prominent one amongst them. It is available for windows, linux, unix and Mac.It is a one stop solution to play your favorite audio CD’s, VCD’s and DVD’s. The specialty of VLC media player is the number of audio and video formats it supports. It has the capability of playing over 20 video formats, which includes all major formats like, mpeg, avi, mkv, divx, 3gp, etc. and over 25 audio formats that includes mp3, wav, amr, ac3, aac, ogg, etc..
Apart from its huge codec library, VLC player has several wonderful features:
- Adjusting the aspect ratio of the screen while you’re watching the video so you can watch it according to your ease. There is a keyboard short cut for to change this (press “C”).
- You can also take a screen shot from any video that is being played.
- The audio quality is mind blowing and you can increase the volume up to 400%, unlike other players who mostly support only up till 200%.
- One unique feature of VLC player is that you can increase the speed of audio and video according to your ease. By default it is 1.0x, but you can fine tune it to your desired value
- There are hardly any media formats which cannot be played on VLC player.thus you can play almost any video file or audio file using this excellent free video player
- For watching movies VLC player supports around 8 different subtitle formats. So you can read the subtitles of your movies, no matter what type of file it is. You can explicitly include the subtitle file by clicking on File >> open file and then selecting the video file and the corresponding subtitle file by browsing it.
- It can even be used for playing files which are on other computers connected on the network.
- There are several attractive skins available to customize its look and feel.
- For the advanced users, the media player has several shortcuts available to operate the player. You can check these in preferences.
- There are also various plug-ins available to enhance the performance of the VLC player.
How to use VLC Media Player?
Using VLC media player is very easy and simple. You first need to download it from here and install it. You can simply double click the audio or video file you want to play, if you have chosen VLC player has the default media player on your PC. You can also play any video or audio by opening it through Media >> Open File menu.
All basic controls needed to play, pause, move to any point on the video or audio file by clicking any point on the progress bar or dragging the progress bar to that point, increase volume, play previous, play next, open playlist, eject disc etc. are available on the main screen via the dashboard. There is also a snapshot button on the dashboard.
You can manipulate the settings of the vlc media player by clicking on preferences in settings tag. This provides a lot of options and makes VLC player a very versatile video or audio player.
- VLC Player can be used as a server and as a client to stream and receive network streams. VLC is able to stream all that it can read.
- You can download a lot of skins for this popular video player from here.you need to simply copy the downloaded VLT files to C:\Program Files\VLC\skins in windows and ~/.local/share/vlc/skins2 on linux or unix. Then open your VLC settings and change your interface from native to skins. You can choose your desired skin already there or change it when you are in the skins mode by rightclicking somewhere on the skin and going to Interface >> Choose Skin. VLC needs to be restarted to change to skins mode.
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