Sunday 15 January 2017

Top 5 VLC tricks that you will love

VLC is the best known media player in today's world. It just runs anything you give it to play. But what if it has many other hidden features that you all will probably love and that make it even great then you ever think off.

Lets start with the hidden secrets of VLC.

1. Merge subtitles with movies

Foreign language movies is a passion for all in today's date. But what if you don't have subtitles engaged with the movie? Don't worry VLC will take care of this problem. Subtitles are available for most of the movies in all the languages.


Just download the subtitle file for your movie & add the subtitle file in the above window opened in your VLC player. And enjoy the original subtitles with your foreign movie. Simple? :)

2. Integrate YouTube videos with your VLC

What if you can watch YouTube videos within your VLC player. Sounds interesting. huh?
Yes, that is a possible thing you can do. VLC player can stream YT videos for you, you just have to give a link to VLC & it will take care of streaming. just follow the below steps to get this done:

1. Just hit CTRL+N key.
2. Below screen will open on your VLC.



3. Just get your youtube video link & paste it in the textbox given (highlighted in yellow in above screenshot).
4. Hit on Play button & that's it. :)


3. Record your screen

VLC media player isn't just a media player, but it is a bunch of features that you have to dig out by playing around with it. Here is one another amazing feature of this player, it can record your screen & you can play this recording later anytime. Want to know the steps:

Just scroll down then. :)

1. Open your VLC player (obviously).
2. Hit the keys CTRL+R
3. Navigate down to the option Covert/Save.
4. A new window will follow after this.
5. Click on Capture Device tab from the top list of tabs given.
6. Make the settings accordingly & at last click on Covert / Save button at the bottom. 


And that's it. You are done with the screen recording feature and save the recording for future time.

3. Rotate your Videos

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3. Change orientation of your videos

Videos that are originated from some other devices like mobiles, tabs, action cams or DSLR's are sometimes captured with wrong orientations & when you play these videos in VLC, it is not able to orient it according to your convenience. But you can rotate the video as you want to. Steps are below:

1. Open your VLC player (obviously).
2. Hit the keys CTRL+E.
3. A new window will follow after this.
4. Click on 'Video Effects' tab from the top list of tabs given.
5. Now you will see a new series of tabs, hit on 'Geometry' tab.



6. Set the rotational geometry according to you & have fun with your wrongly captured videos.


5. Video running on Desktop

Ever heard of this? Yes, you can play any video on your desktop window. This is a great feature of VLC where you can run any video on your desktop, it might be distracting for you but this is an additional add-on in VLC media player.

Below are the steps:

a. Navigate to tools >> preferences.
b. Choose video from left menu, & on the output field choose: 'DirectX video output'
c. Save it.
d. Restart your VLC player.
e. Right click on screen & navigate to your required video> DirectX Wallpaper.

and that's it, video will run on your desktop, enjoy watching it on your desktop itself.

Other than these some more VLC tricks unleashed here, just hit the link below:
http://cyb3rgeek.blogspot.in/2016/12/cool-tricks-for-vlc-users.html



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