if you're looking for a media player that goes above and beyond the one
bundled with your operating system you have quite a few options to choose from
one of the most popular and ubiquitous ones is VLC it runs on everything
Windows OSX Linux iOS even freaking IBM's os2 yeah the official version of
VC does actually run on an operating system whose last release date was
December 2001 VC is known for being able
to play essentially everything you throw at it but we're not here to talk about
how VC reacts to a normal media playback situation we're here to uncover some of
the Lesser known and actually fairly interesting features of
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let's start with a few Basics VC does a lot of other media players don't like
for instance it's one key audio sync that helps offset with terribly encoded
video audio boost that amplifies quiet audio up to 150% without touching
equalizer settings and even features an always Top Mode so you can multitask
like a boss but I'm having a good time and I don't have a curfew so let's take
this deeper before we get started however I want to issue a word of
warning not all of these features are completely stable and our testing we
experienced a significant number of crashes and the UI wasn't always
completely userfriendly so I wouldn't necessarily recommend these features to
completely new users or the Fain of heart but if you put in the time and you
have the knowhow and a bit of technical knowledge you might be able to get a
pretty decent level of stability one more thing I'll be demoing these on
Windows with VC version 2.2.0 depending on your platform and
version the interface and shortcuts May differ slightly so without further Ado
here are the top five hidden features of VC number five did you know that you can
stream your VLC Media over the network yep despite media players in the name
VLC is actually also a media server allowing you to stream video over a
local network or over the Internet well as long as your internet connection can
do that to get started you'll need to click media and then stream from there
add a file or files that you want to stream or if you want to get fancy you
can stream from a disc or even a capture device next select the new D destination
or HTTP and press add Advanced users can
even stream over multiple protocols at once after pressing next VC will prompt
you about active transcoding why would you want this well maybe your device on
the other end is slow or you'd like to save on bandwidth transcoding high
bandwidth content High bit rate content sorry can be really hard especially when
streaming over the internet to start the stream press next where it will give you
a final overview of your settings and and then press stream to start one final
note if you're going to do this over the internet you'll need to forward port
8080 to your host streaming PC also
please note that VC acts as both the streaming host and the client so to tune
in the Stream simply click on media and then open network stream and type in the
URL of your streaming PC including the HTTP and port numbers number four I
touched on this briefly earlier but VC can transcode or encode audio and video
on your local system maybe you want to convert that lossless video into
something a bit more mobile friendly or maybe You' like to convert to QuickTime
so your Mac buddy can edit an iMovie whatever you want to do that's fine to
access transcoding features simply use the media then convert slave menu option
and from there you'll add the file or files you want to convert at the bottom
click convert slave button next you'll be presented with a bunch of preset
profiles good for most cases such as YouTube or Android but if you want
granular control you can change basically whatever you want or even bake
in some subtitles when you're done selecting all that provide a destination
file and VLC will go to work on to number three so you're watching your
favorite show and then something flashes on screen probably some QR code or
Easter egg of some sort I mean you could just play it back at a slower speed with
the default settings of just hitting the minus hotkey or you can go take it frame
by frame to get the perfect glimpse of the hidden secret to do this use the
hotkey E to advance the video frame by frame then when you've got it just right
you can use shift s to save a PNG screenshot in your default pictures
folder and upload it to Reddit or the Linus te tips Forum to show that you're
such a Keener oh and if you don't like PNG or you'd like VLC to Output the
files somewhere else you can change the directory file name format or even the
width and height of the output file right in the preferences number two
whether you're a gamer programmer video editor or just light computer user there
will be at least one point in time in your life where it would be extremely
helpful to capture video from your desktop maybe you got a weird bug and
you need it to help you or maybe you just want to show off your amazing After
Effects tutorial or something else head to Media then open capture device and
select desktop in the capture mode drop down from there select a different frame
rate then uh hit that down arrow again
and select convert from there it's just like transcoding except instead of a
file you're transloading your desktop and live select your en cing options and
your destination file and then press start to get going once you're done just
hit stop and it'll save the file all right time for a bit of a tangent before
we get to our number one hidden VLC feature we have a bonus feature have you
ever wanted to live in the Retro Matrix perhaps you have a nostalgic feeling for
bbs's from the 80s well VLC knows your pain you can actually watch videos via
colored ASI art to do this go to tools
preferences video then under output select color as aski art video output
and enjoy your video in 16 color Glory
okay back on track to number one this is a neat little trick that's very deep
within vlc's interface VLC actually has an integrated HTTP server that you can
enable by setting this up you can remotely access your VLC client via a
web browser to set it up head back to preferences and click the all settings
radio button under main interfaces click the Web Box expand the main menu and
click the Lua add a password to secure your server click save and then close to
reopen VLC setting this interface up makes the whole system much more
powerful remember how we could stream our media over the Internet well it
would be pretty inconvenient to remote in and start the stream so that you
could watch it elsewhere every freaking time this feature provides full access
to your VC client you can play any item in your library of video content manage
your streams adjust equalizer even adjust the volume think of it like a web
connected super remote mod in conclusion VLC is an extremely powerful program
with an insane amount of options and while it may be a little unstable in
certain situations and there are potentially better options for doing
some of these things individually it's pretty badass to have it all in one
package at the low low price of free
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