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As much as MPC-HC is the goto media player around the world, i never knew about the steaming features of VLC. 

 

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For some reason I feel like I've seen this before. :)

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VLC Master Race!

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With all the Hardware you guy's have, please do a video on DirectShow media players (e.g MPC-HC) with madVR and/or SVP (60FPS video) either of these programs will make your GPU or CPU beg for mercy

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You also can click and drag a link from youtube into VLC and play that video. Useful for videos on youtube that have their video not sync to their audio.

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"Audioboost that ampifies quiet audio up to a 150 %"

It amplifies to 200 %, Just scroll the mouse-wheel up (or use the set shortcut) over the video playback area.

The volume slider at the default skin however only allows to 125 % since version 2, only v1.9 allowed 150 %, v1.8 and earlier allowed 200 % if I remember right.

 

What can I do in VLC that you wouldn't expect an average media playback software to be capable of?

The ability to drag&drop playback non-compressed .rar archives which contain media files.

Since I know Daum Potplayer, i can't think of anything else.

 

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I've used VLC for ages.

 

Its a great program, always recommend it, and its always without fail one of the 1st programs I install after a OS format. And yea the audio sync shortcut keys are a blessing.

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Ironically my VLc just updated itself and i just deleted the shortcut of it on my Desktop 

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Great video, i did know VLC had such nifty features B)

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The newer verision(2.2.1) seems to have fixed a lot of the stability problems of 2.2.0.

One of the features which can make VLC very handy, if you have multipal machines, is the "resume playback" feature. If you do a little bit of extra setup you can sync the positions between machines. This allows you to consume media on your main machine, get up and walk to another machine and continue where you left off.

A better method to streaming audio over vlc is to use the capture and streaming service together. Then you just switch the audio player to play the audio on the channel you are capturing. Using this method you access the content using a link on nearly any browser on your network/internet.
 

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Sometimes I can't get vlc to play certain mkv files. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.

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Sometimes I can't get vlc to play certain mkv files. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't.

Try MPC-HC, will have all video renders and filters for MKV 

 

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Does anyone know how to convert 30FPS videos to 60FPS? My computer can handle the playback, but my PC is just a little too weak for SVP

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While it's useless I do like the set video as desktop background with VLC.

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Kinda sad Slick didn't mention that you could use VLC to stream twitch broadcasts which reduces the CPU usage in half or more while still achieving the same quality. Pretty useful if you wanna watch twitch streams while doing CPU intensive stuff like playing GTA or video editing  :D

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when i try to capture screen/convert  the program crashes 

any idea why?

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Pause at 6:18 and see that Luke (or someone at LMG) is a frequent visitor to one of reddit's porn subreddits....panties to the side,eh?

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I didn't know vlc had so many features! My favourite is the desktop recording.

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is there a way to get VLC to play blu rays ? 

Hi!  Please quote me in replies otherwise I may not see your response!

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