If you want to disable the slow Building font cache dialog displayed by VLC Media Player that shows every time a new font is installed, then there is a simple way to turn it off. You will just have to go to VLC’s Advanced Preferences [Tools > Preferences > All (radio button)], then navigate to […]
Android TV – How to Install and Use VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player is universal and is available for Android TVs. Besides being freely available for desktops/laptops (PC/Windows, Mac and Linux) and Mobile Devices (Android, iPhone/iPad and Windows Mobile), it can be installed on our big screens. That is if our big screens is powered by Android TV or if we have an Android TV […]
Choosing, Scanning and Browsing Media Library in VLC for Android
Once you’ve installed VLC Media Player on your Android phone, the app scans for all the media on your phone. The main dashboard displays all the video files found on your device. It groups them in a certain order. But what if you want to exclude certain videos from certain folders? They could be private […]
Get Song Lyrics Automatically for VLC Media Player
VLC can be used for playing music on your PC and some users might want lyrics alongside the songs. While we can manually search for song lyrics, it would be better if the words to the music loaded automatically. There are technologies that exists which can find out the song that is playing. But are […]
How to Install VLC on Chromebook (Chrome OS)
Chromebooks powered by Chrome OS are a special breed of lightweight computers that can perform basic tasks that most of us seek in a simple laptop. One of those tasks is to play video files. While the inbuilt video player is good, we can also use advanced players like VLC for Chrome OS. We can […]
VLC for Android- How to Backup and Restore Playlists (vlc_media.db)
To export a backup database of everything in VLC for Android, all we have to do is go to Settings > Advanced > Dump media database. It will export a vlc_media.db file which is in SQLite format. However, there isn’t a complementing feature which allow us to import the vlc_media.db file in the Android app. […]
How to Open Two Videos Side by Side in VLC Media Player
There might arise a need when we have to open two videos side by side using VLC Media Player. We might have to open two videos simultaneously to compare them. Or, we might need a mashup where we use the audio from one video and the visuals from the other one. With the modern version […]
How to Disable or Enable VLC Santa Hat Holiday Icon?
It is that time of the year again. With the holidays coming up, VLC shows a Santa hat on top of its regular traffic cone logo. Some people may like it but others might want to remove the Santa Hat holiday icon that VLC displays automatically. It is a fairly simple change in advanced settings. […]
Save Favorite Movie Scenes in VLC using Moment Tracker Addon in VLC
We all have favorite moments or scenes in movies that we want to re-watch. Sometimes, we need to bookmark something in a video and access it later. While the inbuild VLC bookmarking feature is there, there is another great option we came upon. We can actually use a VLC addon to do it. The extension […]
How to Take Automated Screenshots at Certain Intervals in VLC
We can configure VLC Media Player to automatically take screenshots at certain intervals for a video that is being played. Normally, snapshots can be captured in VLC by going to Video > Take Snapshot [Shift + S]. But it extracts only one frame. Suppose, you want to click a photo every 30 seconds, then there […]