Want to play a YouTube video outside of your web browser? Just browse to a video on YouTube and copy its full URL - this should look something like the following:Ĭlick the Media menu in VLC, select Open Network Stream, and paste the YouTube video’s URL into the box. RELATED: How to Watch YouTube Videos in VLC Media Player There are mobile apps that function as remote controls for VLC, and these apps use VLC’s web interface to function. You could even use this along with a smartphone to turn your phone into a remote control for VLC. This would allow you to remotely control a media center PC from a web browser, controlling playback and queuing up audio or video files. Set this up and you can then remotely access your VLC client via a web browser. VLC has an integrated HTTP server you can enable.
RELATED: How to Activate VLC's Web Interface, Control VLC From a Browser, & Use Any Smartphone as a Remote You could also use this in concert with the Stream feature to broadcast a live stream of your desktop across the network or Internet with no additional software required. This means that you can use the Convert / Save feature to save a video of your desktop, effectively turning VLC into screen capture software. VLC can load your desktop as an input device.
RELATED: How to Record Your Desktop to a File or Stream It Over the Internet with VLC Of course, if you want to stream over the Internet, you’ll probably need to forward ports on your router. You’ll be able to set up VLC as a media server so other computers on the network - or even around the world - can connect to your stream and view it. To get started, click the Media menu, select Stream, provide the media file you want to stream and click the Stream button. VLC can stream media across the Internet or on your local network. RELATED: How to Stream Videos and Music Over the Network Using VLC Stream Media Over the Network or Internet Use the Edit selected profile button to tweak the video encoding settings. Load the file you want to convert, click the Convert / Save button, and select the type of file you want to convert it to. To do this, click the Media menu and select Convert / Save. You could use this to make a video smaller for a mobile device, convert media from an unsupported format to one your device supports, or even to extract the audio from a video and save it as a separate file.
VLC can convert media files between the formats it supports. RELATED: How to Shrink Videos to Fit Your Android Phone with VLC
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