7 Extra Things VLC Can Do!

7 Extra Things VLC Can Do!

VLC media player is one of the most popular opensource player

for most people.It has got almost all codecs in it. VLC can
do a lot of other things beyond your imagination.
Find out how many of these listed below you knew,
and how many you did not.
Lets find out---

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 FLVetc. 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.