3 Things You Dont Know About Your Vlc Media Player

VLC is the most popular media player because it plays everything of almost every format, but VLC can do a lot more things of which a normal user does not know about.

1) Rip DVDs: 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:

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!

2) 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 appear.

Clicking on the button while playing a movie or video will start recording. Clicking again will stop the recording.

3) 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.