subject: Do You Know The Essentials Of Vlc Media Player? [print this page] TheVLC media player also has the ability to use and access ISO files so that the user can play files on a disk image, even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .is images.
VLC supports all audio and video formats and all file formats supported by libavcodec and libavformat. This means that VLC can play back H.264 or MPEG-4 video as well as support FLV or MXF file formats "out of the box" using FFmpeg's libraries. Alternatively, VLC has modules for codecs that are not based on FFmpeg's libraries. This feature is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including MP3 player and xine-lib-based players, should be able to play those formats without the need for external codecs.
Using a FireWire connection from cable boxes to computers, VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.VLC media player can do screencasts and record the desktop. On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party DLLs.On most platforms, VLC can tune in to and view DVB-C, DVB-T and DVB-S channels. On Mac OS X the separate Eye TV plugin is required; on Windows it requires the card's BDA Drivers. VLC Media Player can be extended through scripting. It uses the Lua scripting language. VLC can play videos in the AVCHD format, a highly compressed format used in recent HD camcorders.
VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as ASCII art. VLC media player can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag. VLC media player is one of the free software and open source DVD players that ignores DVD region coding on RPC-1 firmware drives, making it a region-free player. However, it does not do the same on RPC-2 firmware drives.
