Guest bigdady February 28, 2011 Share February 28, 2011 For most people, VLC is the favorite media player because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. Find out how many of these listed below you knew, and how many you did not. 1. Rip DVDs: VLC includes a basic DVD ripper. You probably would never use it when there are better DVD rippers available, but it helps to know that you can in fact, get a decent quality DVD rip with VLC. To rip a movie follow these steps: Go to the Media menu and choose Convert/Save. Click on the Disc tab. Here you can adjust the Starting Position and rip only specific titles or chapters. Enter file name making sure to end with .MPG, and start ripping. Click Save. 2. Record videos: With the new VLC, you can record videos during playback. The record button is hidden by default. To see it, click on View>Advanced Control. The record button will now appear. Clicking on the button while playing a movie or video will start recording. Clicking again will stop recording. 3. Play RAR files: Do you know VLC can play videos zipped inside RAR files? They play like normal video files and you can even use the seek bar. If the RAR file is split into several files, no problem. Just load the first part (.part001.rar ) and it will automatically take the rest of the parts and play the whole file. 4. Play in ASCII mode: VLC media player has an amusing ability, to playback movies in ASCII art. To enable ASCII mode, open VLC media player and click on Tools>Preferences. Open the section “Video” section and under “Output” select “Color ASCII art video output” from the drop down menu. Save it. Now play any video file to enjoy the ASCII art. 5. Listen to online radio: VLC includes hundreds of Shoutcast radio stations. You just need to enable it through Media>Services Discovery>Shoutcast radio listings. Now, open the Playlist and browse through the stations. 6. Convert Audio and Video formats: In VLC you can convert video and audio files from one format to another. Several different formats are supported like MP4, WMV, AVI, OGG, MP3 etc. To access the converter: Go to Media>Convert/Save. Load the file you want to convert using the Add button and click Convert. Now choose the output format and output file location. 7. Download YouTube and other online videos: First grab the URL of the YouTube video page. Now click on Media>Open Network stream. Paste the URL and click Play. Once VLC starts streaming the video, click Tools>Codec Information and at the bottom of the window you will see a Location box. Copy the URL and paste it on your browser’s address bar. The browser will now download the file which you can save it to your hard disk. Alternatively, you can record the video. (See #2). Source:This tutorial has been extracted from HERE 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest electrik February 28, 2011 Share February 28, 2011 Well never knew about ascii playback. Thanks BIG Daddy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LastDeath March 2, 2011 Share March 2, 2011 great tips OMG i dont know of all this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest albert7861 March 7, 2011 Share March 7, 2011 good piece of info. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anngel March 8, 2011 Share March 8, 2011 thanks alot , nice program but i prefer windows cinema media player :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cherry March 13, 2011 Share March 13, 2011 Nice info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lacielee March 20, 2011 Share March 20, 2011 I use VLC and you have shown me a couple things I didn't know ;) I love new info on things I think I already know enough on. LOL Great job..Thank-you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest elementunkn June 1, 2011 Share June 1, 2011 Thanks! I've been using VLC for a while and only knew about a couple of these. Some of the things are pretty cool and I'll probably use them in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jestersout June 12, 2011 Share June 12, 2011 Woah very usefull post Big Daddy. Hey, I felt funny saying your name. :o :unsure: :mellow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cheater June 12, 2011 Share June 12, 2011 awesome info.liked it.thanks mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hellboy June 16, 2011 Share June 16, 2011 wow this tutorial is pretty good man ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest javardolas June 25, 2011 Share June 25, 2011 wow! nicee tutorial thx for the tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ExhilaratingMetal June 25, 2011 Share June 25, 2011 Thanks a lot for sharing. I didn't know most of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oink June 26, 2011 Share June 26, 2011 thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest netrippa June 27, 2011 Share June 27, 2011 nice one, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest iMember June 28, 2011 Share June 28, 2011 Thanks dude useful post :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest autolux June 30, 2011 Share June 30, 2011 handy lil tips! ascii playback is lols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jgreen July 4, 2011 Share July 4, 2011 You can also increase the volume to 400% by pressing ctrl and the up arrow key Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest keshava July 11, 2011 Share July 11, 2011 Nice tip. But the converter thing doesn't work for me. I tried to convert XViD to MPEG-2 but VLC didn't convert it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bigdady July 17, 2011 Share July 17, 2011 Nice tip. But the converter thing doesn't work for me. I tried to convert XViD to MPEG-2 but VLC didn't convert it. it could be cuz now its new version and this one is old or maybe is something wrong on your side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest torrentguy September 11, 2011 Share September 11, 2011 Good tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest susieQs September 16, 2011 Share September 16, 2011 i never knew this ~thanks bunches for the info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Toscene September 19, 2011 Share September 19, 2011 Useful for me. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest qweris September 23, 2011 Share September 23, 2011 very helpful tips. has anyone used the vlc video converter? looking for reviews. i stream movies on my tv through my x box and xbox does not support mp4 so the odd time i have to convert formats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oosu October 7, 2011 Share October 7, 2011 thanks for the info. Do you know if it can play iso's again? I had a older version but when i upgraded .. it didnt work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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