VLC HowTo
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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 image settings
- This explains how to adjust video image settings: hue, brightness, contrast, saturation, and gamma
- Change the aspect ratio of a video
- Crop video
- Hardware acceleration
- How to adjust hardware acceleration settings under the Qt Interface for the 3.x.x branch of VLC
- 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 Windows 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.
- 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.
- Transcode
- This explains converting (transcoding) a file.
- 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.
- Extract audio from a file
- This explains how to extract the audio track from a file.
- Extract audio
- This explains how to extract the audio track from a DVD.
- Rip a DVD
- This explains how to rip a DVD using VLC
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
- 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
- How to use VLC for transcription in linux
