7 Things VLC Can Do!!

VLC media player is one of the most
popular player for most people.It has got
almost all codecs. 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.
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.