You can bookmark video and audio positions in VLC. You can also add buttons to it, for instance the DVD menu button which may come in useful if you play a lot of DVDs in VLC. Here you can add or remove icons from toolbars via drag & drop.įor instance, if you never use the random icon, you may want to remove it to clean up the interface. Select Tools > Customize Interface to get started. You can change the VLC Media Player interface to a degree. You can convert video and audio files using VLC.
Just load the first part (if there are several) into the player and it will start to play the video or audio just fine.
There is no option in VLC to shut down the PC after playback, but you can make use of batch scripts that are posted on the Videolan website to do so. If you like to watch a video or listen to audio while you are falling asleep, you may like the idea of your system shutting down when that happens, so that it is not running all night long. To switch, simply open the preferences once more and select All instead of Simply in the lower left corner of the screen. You can switch that to all preferences instead which gives you additional configuration options. The program displays simple preferences by default. Note that the change takes effect starting with the next video or audio file you play in VLC after you make the change. It basically sets the volume of every track you play to the same level so that you do not have to sit through audio that is either too high or too low in volume. One of them is the normalizer that you can enable in the audio settings. VLC Media Player offers several audio options that you may find interesting. There is the online radio ad blocker extension for example, VLSub which adds subtitle searching and downloading to VLC, or Micro Controls, a small control interface for the player.Įxtensions are installed by downloading them from the VLC website and move it to the \lua\extensions folder of the VLC installation directory. While you won't find thousands of extensions for VLC, you do find a handful of interesting ones. This works similar to how browser extensions are installed in Firefox or Google Chrome.
You can install extensions in VLC that extend or modify the player's default functionality. Note that it may take a while before some of the available services populate with results. Just select View > Playlist, and select Internet there.Ī list of options becomes available, including Jamendo, Icecast or the option to play Podcasts to the player. The player ships with several Internet radio sources that you can tune in right away.
What some of you may not know is that you can also play Internet radio and podcasts in VLC. You can play audio files with VLC Media Player out of the box. On Windows, that is the My Pictures folder on most systems. If nothing is specified there, it will be saved to the default pictures directory. The snapshots are saved to the directory that is specified in the preferences under Video. The snapshot is shown as a small thumbnail for a second or two after you hit that button. To do so right-click the video and select Video > Take Snapshot from the context menu.
If you want to create a quick screenshot of a video, you can do so right from within VLC Media Player. The Open Recent Media option in the menu won't be there anymore. Note that the change requires a restart of VLC before it takes effect.