VLC HowTo

Below are some handy guides for using VLC media player

Playing Video and Audio

How to...

• Use Subtitles

  Playing movies with subtitles

• Use a Capture Card

  This explains how to watch TV or get video from your capture card.

• Play DVDs and Disks from the image file

  This explains how to use movies encoded onto an ISO file.

Adjusting Settings

How to...

• Adjust Picture Brightness and Contrast
• Edit the Aspect Ratio of a video
• Crop video
• Disable video acceleration in Win32
• Save bookmarks
• How to play multiple instances

Remote Control for VLC

How to...

• Control VLC via a browser

  This explains how to use the HTTP interface

• Control VLC via a widget on the Mac desktop
• Control VLC from an iPhone
• Control VLC from an Android Phone
• Control VLC from a Palm Web OS Phone
• How to Use Creative Remote

  Explains how to control VLC media player with Creative brand remote controls

Transcoding and Streaming

How to...

• Play videos on your iPod

  This explains how to convert your videos so they play on your iPod.

• Play videos on your Play-Yan Micro

  This explains how to convert your videos so they play on your Play-Yan Micro.

• Play videos on your XBox and XBox 360

  This explains how to convert your videos so they play on your XBox.

• Play video on your Zune

  This explains how to convert your videos so they play on your Zune.

• Fixing .flv to .avi with Ffmpeg

  This explains how to use ffmpeg to a convert broken .flv files to a perfectly good .avi file DEPRECATED

• Convert Windows Media audio/video files to MOV or .MP4

  This explains how to convert Windows Media-encoded files to Quicktime or MPEG-4 files

• Streaming from a webcam to an ActiveX embedded object page
• Add a logo on your videos
• Create a Mosaic

  This explains how to set up a mosaic from a few streams like a TV portal.

• Set up Video on Demand on a Dreambox
• How to Batch Encode

  This explains how to set up a batch transcode with all files in a directory of a certain file extension being transcoded to a specified format.

• How to merge and transcode multiple videos

  This explains how to take several source videos and merge then transcode resulting in a single file output.

Using VLC in other Applications

How to...

• ActiveX

  Specification for ActiveX control

• Use VLC's External API

  Information for using libvlc

• Use in Media Center
• Useful Firefox Extensions

  Information about extensions to view embedded videos in web pages using VLC

• GWT

  Google WebToolkit

Other Stuff

How to...

• Create a DVD

  This explains how to make a DVD from your home videos

• Use the ActiveX control with Borland's Delphi

  Using the VLC ActiveX plug-in in your programs

• Use the ActiveX control within a webpage.
• Integrate ActiveX/Mozilla on your webpage
• Change a video

  This explains how to edit a video and save the changes

• How to create thumbnails
• How to Use Lirc
• How to shut down computer when VLC playback is over...
• How to make VLC the default player

See also

• See also Category:How To