VLC - does MORE than you think

[jimbo45]

Hi all
VLC is much much more than a free DVD player. I've seen people recommend all sorts of player etc etc but you cannot beet the simplicity and versatility of VLC and it's also a TINY piece of software.

I have not yet seen a codec VIDEO or Audio that it can't handle.

Anyway here's some hidden gems also that you can do with VLC.

http://maketecheasier.com/5-things-you-didnt-know-vlc-could-do/2010/05/06

cheers
jimbo

 

[Faceofjoe421]

Nice tips, I use VLC with Media Player Classic and have disabled Windows Media Player.

 

[flemur13013]

VLC rocks. It's also one of the best pgms for handling different playlist formats.

 

[Faceofjoe421]

The only negative thing is it plays high quality, good quality format movies really laggy, and there is no iTunes way of Playlists, like you can't make a movie playlists for each type of movie and easily access them.

 

[kado897]

Another few things you probably didn't know VLC could do.

1. Record you PC screen.
2. If you have a TV card. Play the live stations from it.
3. Play video streams from the internet.
4. Play a video as a wallpaper.

 

[Corazon]

I'm still looking for the "make me coffee" option in VLC's menus, but I agree - it rocks. Thanks jimbo45!

 

[kado897]

The main thing wrong with VLC is the difficulty finding out how to do something. It's usually there but the documentation is dreadful (non existent).

 

[disasterpiece91]

MPC has CCCP add-ons, I may need to disagree with ya

 

[MilesAhead]

Hi all
VLC is much much more than a free DVD player. I've seen people recommend all sorts of player etc etc but you cannot beet the simplicity and versatility of VLC and it's also a TINY piece of software.

I have not yet seen a codec VIDEO or Audio that it can't handle.

Anyway here's some hidden gems also that you can do with VLC.

http://maketecheasier.com/5-things-you-didnt-know-vlc-could-do/2010/05/06

cheers
jimbo

It worked great for me until they added PGS and XSubs subtitle support. Now every time I touch it while playing a video it just goes away. I must have tried 20 different versions and nightly builds. They're all untouchable. Really frustrating!!

All it does for me is crash!

 

[mjf]

I can't get it to play audio bin/cue files.

 

[Corazon]

bin/cue files are CD images, similar to .iso files but often (not always) containing multiple tracks rather than just one.

You can read the .cue file with Notepad - are you sure the tracks are identified as AUDIO? If they are MODE1/2048 or 2352, they're data tracks.

You could use ISObuster to open the image and save the tracks as separate .wav files (if they are indeed audio).

 

[mjf]

Correct. Imgburn will by default want to create an ISO as the file format for data discs and bin/cue for audio. So if I make a backup copy of one of my audio CDs imgburn will produce the continuous binary copy .bin and a .cue file describing the track info.

In principle VLC should be able to play bin/cue file combination directly. How do get it to do it (without mounting a virtual CD)?

 

[kado897]

You should be able to just open the CUE file.

 

[mjf]

Yes that's what I thought but it doesn't work for me. I have the latest version of VLC. Does it work for you?

 

[kado897]

I don't have any audio files to try it on ATM.