Thread: VLC Media Player - Things you never knew it could do!!

Just checked the video recording feature... damn cool. Thx

Thanks for this. Lots of stuff I did not know. Very helpful

Great info, thanks alot. playing from RAR is very very convenient indeed.
I wonder if you could take an ASCII screen from some cool movie to use it.

great tutorial. i use VLC player for a few months

VLC is a great player (sometimes this is the only media player who can reproduce some .flv files xD), but it still have an ugly ui, and lack of advanced hotkeys, its my second favorite Media player

VLC media player - Skin Editor
Fix the UI if you don't like it.
I'm sure you can find plenty pre-made ones.
VideoLan Skins - Forum

As for the advanced hotkeys.
I havent run into anything that I couldn't do with a hotkey in VLC.
Try checking the preferences and select All settings instead of just Simple.
Then find hotkey settings under interface.

BTW
What's your first favorite?

My favorite is MPC Homecinema and one of the things that make vlc my second favority is it dont have a backward frame by frame hotkey

and im going to check those skins i didnt knew about them

cool! i will for sure try the ascii mode. thanks!

there's even more. e.g. vlc can act as a streaming server. i'm doing it all the time to watch the stuff i downloaded on tv via my digital receiver.
this works on every os where vlc can be compiled resp. downloaded for.

First you need to setup a centralized PC that stores all multimedia files in it.

Setup Media Server (in PC server):

1. Install VLC media player in Windows PC.
2. Once completed the installation, launch VLC media player.
3. Go to File -> Wizard to open Streaming/Transcoding Wizard.
4. Choose “Stream to network” then click Next button.
5. Click Choose button, a new Open window will be pop up.
6. Click Browse button to choose a media file to play, then click OK button.
7. Click Next button.
When you choose ‘Stream to network’ option, there are multiple streaming methods that you can select. For instances: UDP Unicast – Stream to single computer, UDP Multicast – Stream to Multiple computers or HTTP – Stream using HTTP protocol.
8. Check “HTTP” and enter the IP of the server PC (Exp: 192.168.1.192), then click Next button.
9. Check “MPEG TS”, then click Next button.
10. Click Finish button to complete the media server setup

Then you need to setup client PC so that it can receive the media streaming seamlessly.

Setup Media Player (in client PC):

1. Install VLC media player in another Windows PC
2. Once completed the installation, launch VLC media player.
3. Go to File -> Open Network Stream
4. Check “HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MMS”, then enter URL as {media server IP}:8080. Exp: 192.168.1.192:8080
5. Go to Customize field as located at bottom of the screen, enter the value as http://{media server IP}:8080. Exp: http:// 192.168.1.192:8080.
6. Click OK button to complete media player setup. It will start to play the media as playing at media server as setup above.

Take note that the setup only serves as a reference guide and you may need to modify slightly (ex: IP address and etc) to suit your own environment.

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