VLC Media Player Introduction, Features, Shortcut Keys

Introduction to the VLC media Player

Hi, Guys welcome to another blog, Well I don't need to tell you about that what is the VLC media player. Even if you are using PC or mobile you must have been heard of it. The VLC media player is free both in PC and mobile devices.

Now, VLC media player is very popular all around the world because it's free and more reliable compared to other media players. While Windows has its own media player but the majority of people don't use windows media player and other media players that are available for free on the internet.

Also, The main reason for the popularity of the VLC media player is that it was launched too early and it's very old. The VLC media player was launched on 1st February 2001, Which was before the launch of Windows XP.

The VLC media player was developed by VideoLAN on the starting of 2001. The player was written/developed with the help of C/C++ language which was the popular programming languages of that time. Initially, it was launched for only windows, MACos, and Linux but after the mobile operating system came like Android and iOS and much more then it is also launched for mobile devices. But the VLC media player doesn't get much popularity on mobile devices compared to desktops.

Now, the new users don't know that VLC is not just a media player it can do everything which the other media players can't. Now, don't be shocked it cannot do everything but essentially it can perform a special job so the user can feel comfortable while using VLC media player. When VLC media player was launched it was just a media player but after the competition grows in the media industry than VLC started bringing updates so that the user use their media player for a longer period.

Now, I use this media player and I loves a lot means you cannot imagine that its reliability if you keep this media player up-to-date.

Now, by the successful growth of VideoLAN VLC is not just a player it offers too many features. Here is the list of the features offered by the VLC media player.

Features of VLC Media Player

• VLC has fast decoding on most of the available platform whether it is MACos or Windows, Decoding means it can convert the code into the text very fast.
• It plays all different formats whether it is of songs or videos.
• It offers a subtitle feature.
• It offers MPEG-1/2, DivX® (1/2/3/4/5/6), MPEG-4 ASP, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.261, H.263 / H.263i, H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, Cinepak, Theora, Dirac / VC-2, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1, Sorenson 1/3, DV, On2 VP3/VP5/VP6, Indeo Video v3 (IV32), Real Video (1/2/3/4). These all are different formats of videos. To enjoy this feature you have to keep your VLC media player up-to-date.
• It offers MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3 - MPEG Layer 3, AAC - MPEG-4 part3, Vorbis, AC3 - A/52, E-AC-3, MLP / TrueHD>3, DTS, WMA 1/2, WMA 3, FLAC, ALAC, Speex, Musepack / MPC, ATRAC 3, Wavpack, Mod, TrueAudio, APE, Real Audio, Alaw/µlaw, AMR (3GPP), MIDI, LPCM, ADPCM, QCELP, DV Audio, QDM2/QDMC, MACE. These all are the formats of songs and audios. 
• It also offers other features which you will really love - DVD, Text files (MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Closed captions, Vobsub, Universal Subtitle Format (USF), SVCD / CVD, DVB, OGM, CMML, Kate, ID3 tags, APEv2, Vorbis comment.
• It also offers advanced control option to enhance your quality of video and audio.

• It also offers to add external subtitle file.
• It also offers to add external features you can add different interfaces, UI, Services, Skins and much more.

• You can play 4k video without any interruption.
• Also, you can play the audio/video file directly from the internet to VLC media player by using the URL feature.
• It also offers some advanced formats options.

Shortcut Keys in VLC Media Player

1. C - Crop 

• Crop feature helps you to resize the video length and breadth. 16:10, 16:9, 1:85:1, 2:21:1, 2:35:1, 2:39:1, 5:3, 5:4, 1:1. 

2. W - Get to locked fullscreen.

3. E - Next frame

4. T - Duration

• This feature helps the user to know the duration of the video/audio.

5. O - Original size

• This feature helps the user to scaled the screen into fullscreen video.

6. P - Start again

7. [] - fast mode and slow mode

• This feature helps the user to set the video into slow/fast mode.

8. A - Aspect ratio

9. D - Blend

10. G - Subtitle

11. J and K - Audio delay

• This feature helps the user to delay the audio but the video will be normal in speed.

12. L - loop

13. Shift+S - Get Screen Shot

14. Z - Zoom mode

15. V - Subtitle track

• If the video/audio already have subtitle than you can press V to get the subtitle and if not you can download or add subtitle file.

16. B - Language Change

• This feature totally depends on the file if the file is loaded with different languages then you can use this feature.

17. N - Next

• To replay/play existing/next file.

18. M - Mute

19. Shift +M - Reverse

20. Shift+N - Next

21.Ctrl+Uparrow - Volume Increase

22. Ctrl+Downarrow-Volume Decrease

23. Ctrl+right and left arrow = Skip the part up to 10 seconds

24. Space = Pause

25. F1 = VLC about section

• Know about your VLC player version.

26. F11 = Fullscreen

27. F = Fullscreen

28. Ctrl+T = Jump to specific time

29. Ctrl+Q = Quit

• This will close the VLC player window. 

30. Ctrl+C = Capture device

31. Ctrl+V = URL

• This feature helps the user to play the file from web or also from your computer.

32. Ctrl+B = Bookmarks

33. Ctrl+N = Open media

34. Ctrl+M = Messages

35. Ctrl+L = library

36. Ctrl+J = Media information

37. Ctrl+F = Open another video

38.Ctrl+S = file

39. Ctrl+P = Simple preferences

40. Ctrl+I = Media settings and info

41. Ctrl+Y = Save playlist

42. Ctrl+E = Sound equalizer

43. Ctrl+Q = Quit

• Closing the feature list and also closes the VLC windows.

Now, I hope you have found all these features and shortcut keys interesting and helpful. If yes, then do comment below.

If you want to download VLC media player just click here.