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if you're looking for a media player that goes above and beyond the one bundled with your operating system you have quite a few options to choose from one of the most popular and ubiquitous ones is VLC runs on everything Windows OS X Linux iOS even freaking IBM's os/2 yeah the official version of VLC does actually run on an operating system whose last release date was December 2001 VLC is known for being able to play essentially everything you throw at it but we're not here to talk about how VLC reacts to a normal media playback situation we're here to uncover some of the lesser-known and actually fairly interesting features of VLC the cooling master no touch tkl utilizes genuine taupe or hybrid capacitive switches and is now available at a more affordable price click now to learn more I'll start with a few basics you'll see does things a lot of other media players don't like for instance it's one key audio sync that helps offset with terribly encoded video audio boosts that amplifies quiet audio up to 150 percent without touching equalizer settings and even features an always top mode so you can multitask like a boss but I'm having a good time and I don't have a curfew so let's take this deeper before we get started however I want to issue a word of warning not all of these features are completely stable in our testing we experienced a significant number of crashes and the you I wasn't always completely user-friendly so I wouldn't necessarily recommend these features to completely new users or the faint of heart but if you put in the time and you have the know-how and a bit of technical knowledge you might be able to get a pretty decent level of stability one more thing I'll be demoing these on Windows with VLC version 2.2 point 0 depending on your platform and version the interface and shortcuts may differ slightly so without further ado here are the top 5 hidden features of VLC number 5 did you know that you can stream your VLC media over the network yep despite media players in the name VLC is actually also a media server allowing you to stream video over a local network or over the Internet well as long as your net connection can do that to get started you'll need to click media and then stream from there add a file or files that you want to stream or if you want to get fancy you can stream from a disk or even a capture device next like the new destination or HTTP and press add advanced users can even stream over multiple protocols at once after pressing next VLC will prompt you about active transcoding why would you want this well maybe your device on the other end is slow or you'd like to save on bandwidth transcoding high bandwidth content high bitrate content sorry can be really hard especially when streaming over the Internet to start the stream press next where it will give you little overview of your settings and then press stream to start one final note if you're going to do this over the Internet you'll need to forward port 8080 to your host streaming PC also please note the VLC acts as both the streaming host and the client so to tune into the stream simply click on media and then open network stream and type in the URL of your streaming PC including the HTTP and port numbers number four I touch on this briefly earlier but VLC can transcode or encode audio and video on your local system maybe you want to convert that lossless video into something a bit more mobile-friendly or maybe you'd like to convert it to QuickTime so your Mac buddy you can edit an iMovie whatever you want to do that's fine to access transcoding features simply use the media then convert slash save menu option and from there you'll add the file or files you want to convert at the bottom click convert slash slave button next you'll be presented with a bunch of preset profiles good for wolves cases such as YouTube or Android but if you want granular control you can change basically whatever you want or even bacon some subtitles when you're done selecting all that poop on a destination file in VLC we'll go to work on to number three so you're watching your favorite show and then something flashes on screen probably some QR code or Easter Egg of some sort I mean you can just play it back at a slower speed with the default settings of just hitting the minus hotkey or you can go take it frame by frame to get the perfect limps of the hidden secret to do this use the hotkey e to advance the video frame by frame then when you've got it just right you can use shift S to save a PNG screenshot in your default pictures folder and upload it to Reddit or the Linus tech tips forum to show that you're such a keener oh and if you don't like PNG or you'd likely you'll see to output the file somewhere else you can change the directory file name format or even the width and height of the output file right in the preferences number two whether you're a gamer programmer video editor or just like computer user there will be at least one point in time in your life where it would be extremely helpful to capture video from your desktop maybe you got a weird bug and you need IT to help you or maybe you just want to show off your amazing After Effects tutorial or some and to media then open capture device and select desktop in the capture mode drop down from there select a different frame rate then hit that down arrow again and select convert from there it's just like transcoding except instead of a file you're translating your desktop and live select your encoding options and your destination file and then press Start to get going once you're done just hit stop and it'll save the file all right time for a bit of a tangent before we get to our number one hidden VLC feature we have a bonus feature if you ever wanted to live in the retro matrix perhaps you have a nostalgic feeling for BBS's from the 80s well VLC knows your pain you can actually watch videos via color - ASCII art to do this and go to tools preferences video then under output select color ASCII art video output and enjoy your video and 16-color glory okay back on track to number one this is a neat little trick that's very deep within VLC's interface you'll see actually has an integrated HTTP server that you can enable by setting this up you can remotely access your viel say client via web browser to set it up head back to preferences and click the all settings radio button under main interfaces click the web box expand the main menu and click the Lua add a password to secure your server click Save and then close to reopen VLC setting this interface up makes the whole system much more powerful remember how we could stream our media over the Internet well it'd be pretty inconvenient to remote in and start the stream so that you could watch it elsewhere every freakin time this feature provides full access to your VLC client you can play any item in your library of video content manage your streams I just equalizer even adjust the volume think of it like a web connected super remote in conclusion we all say is an extremely powerful program with an insane amount of options and while it may be a little unstable in certain situations and there are potentially better options for doing some of these things individually it's pretty badass to have it all in one package at the low low price of free speaking of being powerful to the web Squarespace is pretty powerful and has you covered if you want to set up a beautiful responsive site without the hassle of coding it yourself we use Squarespace on the company website Lynas Media Group comm and have never encountered a major issue with it but if you do encounter any major issues they have 24/7 tech support via live chat or even email to help you out if you want to set up a information setup if you want to set them up in an online store they have an e-commerce site that you can set up through Squarespace so get a free trial at Squarespace no credit card required and start building your 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