10 Hidden Features Of VLC Media Player That You Should To Know

There's a decent risk you as of now utilize the VLC Media Player. Anyhow VLC isn't simply a media player — its a complete Swiss Army Knife for advanced features and music, loaded with helpful and fun highlights you haven't discovered yet.

In case you're simply utilizing VLC to play back neighborhood media documents, you're just utilizing a minor portion of VLC's abilities. There's such a great deal more you can do with VLC, whether you're utilizing it on Windows, Mac or Linux.

1. Convert Media Files:

VLC can change over media records between the organizations it underpins. You could utilize this to make a feature littler for a cell phone, change over media from an unsupported organization to one your gadget backings, or even to concentrate the sound from a feature and spare it as a different document.

To do this, click the Media menu and select Convert/ Save. Load the document you need to convert, click the Convert/ Save button, and select the type of file you want to convert it to. Utilize the Edit chose profile button to change the feature encoding settings.

2. Stream Media Over the Network or Internet:

VLC can stream media over the Internet or on your neighborhood system. To begin, click the Media menu, select Stream, give the media document you need to stream and click the Stream catch. You'll have the capacity to set up VLC as a media server so different PCs on the system — or even around the globe — can interface with your stream and perspective it.

Obviously, on the off chance that you need to stream over the Internet, you'll likely need to forward ports on your router.

3. Record Your Desktop:

VLC can stack your desktop as a data gadget. This implies that you can utilize the Convert/ Save highlight to spare a feature of your desktop, viably transforming VLC into screen catch programming. You could likewise utilize this as a part of show with the Stream highlight to telecast a live stream of your desktop over the system or Internet with no extra programming needed.

4. Remotely Control Playback From a Browser:

VLC has an incorporated HTTP server you can empower. Set this up and you can then remotely get to your VLC customer by means of a web program. This would permit you to remotely control a media focus PC from a web program, controlling playback and lining up sound or feature records. You could even utilize this alongside a cell phone to transform your telephone into a remote control for VLC. There are portable applications that capacity as remote controls for VLC, and these applications utilize VLC's web interface to capacity.

5. Watch YouTube Videos:

Need to play a YouTube feature outside of your web program? Simply scan to a feature on YouTube and duplicate its full URL — this ought to look something like the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=@@@@@@@@@

Click the Media menu in VLC, select Open Network Stream, and glue the YouTube feature's URL into the case. VLC will stack the feature from YouTube and play it in a VLC window on your desktop.

At the point when the feature is playing, you could click the Tools menu and select Codec Information. You'll see the full web location of the MP4 feature showed in the Location box, so you can duplicate and-glue into a download director — or simply your web program — to download the YouTube feature to your PC.

6. Subscribe to Podcasts:

VLC can be utilized to stream podcasts, so you needn't bother with any extra programming in the event that you need to listen to podcasts at your PC. Simply click the View menu in VLC and select Playlist. Drift over Podcasts in the sidebar, click the + catch, and glue the location of a podcast's food into the case. You can then stream the podcast's scenes from inside VLC.

7. Play Internet Radio:

Before Pandora and Spotify, there were gushing Internet radio stations. Some time ago Internet clients basically gushed these radio stations from inside Winamp, yet they live on. You can see a searchable registry of radio stations from inside VLC — simply open the playlist and select Icecast Radio Directory. Perform a quest for the sort of music you need to listen to or search the rundown of free spilling radio stations.

Obviously, VLC can likewise stream other Internet radio stations that are excluded in this catalog. You can by and large discover a "tune in" connection on their sites that will permit you to listen in a desktop player like VLC.

8. Apply Video and Audio Effects:

VLC can apply sound impacts, feature impacts, and change the way a feature's sound and feature line up. Click the Tools menu and select Effects and Filters. From here, you can apply a sound equalizer or feature impacts, for example, trimming, pivoting, overlaying, or colorizing a feature. From the Synchronization tab, you can change the way a feature's sound and feature stream line up. This permits you to settle broken features where the sound and feature are out of sync.

Likewise with other VLC highlights, these impacts can be joined with different highlights. For instance, you could for all time apply impacts to a feature by empowering these impacts before utilizing the Convert/ Save highlight.

9. ASCII Playback:

ASCII playback isn't an extremely helpful highlight, however its positively an interesting one. In ASCII playback mode, VLC will show a feature as ASCII characters instead of play it ordinarily. It's to a great degree illogical, however greatly nerdy and worth a test commute in the event that you need to astonish and entertain somebody.

Click the Tools choice in VLC, select Preferences, and click the Video symbol. Click the Output box and select Color ASCII workmanship feature yield. Save your settings, restart VLC, and begin playing another feature. This highlight works best with straightforward features, for example, kid's shows with huge areas of level shading.

After you're done, retreat into this window, click the Output box, and select Automatic to make VLC play features typically.

10. Use a Video Wallpaper:

VLC additionally permits you to set a feature as your desktop wallpaper, supplanting your desktop foundation with a feature. It's not extremely functional and amazingly diverting, however hey — its something you can't do with numerous media players.

To do this, open VLC's inclination window, click the Video symbol, and select DirectX (DirectDraw) feature yield in the Output box. Restart VLC, load a feature, and you'll have the capacity to click the Video menu and select Set as Wallpaper to transform the feature into your desktop wallpaper.

When you're set, simply change VLC's Output setting back to Automatic and restart it.