VLC media player (also known as VLC) is a highly portable free and open-source media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project. It is a cross-platform media player, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, MorphOS, BSD, Solaris, iOS, and eComStation.
VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream over computer network and to transcode multimedia files.
VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but since VLC is no longer simply a client, that initialism no longer applies.
For most people, VLC is the favorite media player because it plays
everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But
VLC can do a lot of other things as well. 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.
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.
