VLC Player Tricks

Friends ,VLC can perform a number of extra things as well as which regular user have no idea about this.
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 .
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 :
Just 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 .* Its Done .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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.