Know The Multi Purposes Of VLC Media Player

For most people, VLC is the favorite media player because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. Find out how many of these listed below you knew, and how many you did not.

1. Rip DVDs: VLC includes a basic DVD ripper. 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.

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

3. Play RAR files: Do you know VLC can play videos zipped inside RAR files? They play like normal video files and you can even use the seek bar. If the RAR file is split into several files, no problem. Just load the first part (.part001.rar ) and it will automatically take the rest of the parts and play the whole file.

4. Play in ASCII mode: VLC media player has an amusing ability, to playback movies in ASCII art. To enable ASCII mode, open VLC media player and click on Tools>Preferences. Open the section “Video” section and under “Output” select “Color ASCII art video output” from the drop down menu. Save it. Now play any video file to enjoy the ASCII art.

5. Listen to online radio: VLC includes hundreds of Shoutcast radio stations. You just need to enable it through Media>Services Discovery>Shoutcast radio listings. Now, open the Playlist and browse through the stations.

6. 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.

7. Download YouTube and other online videos: First grab the URL of the YouTube video page. Now click on Media>Open Network stream. Paste the URL and click Play.

Once VLC starts streaming the video, click Tools>Codec Information and at the bottom of the window you will see a Location box. Copy the URL and paste it on your browser’s address bar. The browser will now download the file which you can save it to your hard disk. Alternatively, you can record the video. (See #2).

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How to burn iTunes movies to watch on home DVD Player ?

How to burn iTunes movies to watch on home DVD Player ?

As we know, the .m4v movies purchased from iTunes are protected with DRM. At first, you need to remove the DRM protection.
QTFairUse: it can remove DRM protection from iTunes music and videos for free.
Second, to convert M4V into a DVD player readable format so that you can watch these on a DVD player, you need to use M4V to DVD Converter for Mac, which can easily convert and burn .m4v files without DRM protection.

Follow the step-by-step guide on how to burn and convert iTunes M4V movie to DVD on Mac.

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Step1 Free Download M4V to DVD Convert for Mac: http://www.aimersoft-mac.com/dvd-creator-mac.html#131

Step2 Insert a DVD Disc
Insert a blank or rewriteable disc into your recordable drive: DVD-5 or DVD-9.

Step3 Load M4V files
Click “Add” button to load your .m4v video files to the Mac M4V to DVD Converter, or drag the .m4v files directly to the program.

Step4 Make DVD menu
This Mac M4V to DVD Converter allows you to burn .m4v files with menu. Click the Menu button on the lower right corner to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu. If you want to edit an element (template, frame, button or text) on the menu, you can just click on the element and edit it in the right pane.

Step5 Choose Destination
You can choose to convert and burn M4V files to DVD disc directly or convert M4V to DVD folder and ISO files.

Step6 More settings
Click the Burn button to make burning settings.

Step7 Start burning
After all is set, click “Start” to convert and burn M4V to DVD on your Mac.

How to download video form YouTube to iTunes?

Part 1 How to download YouTube video free

Video downloader
If you are using Firefox, the easiest way to download videos from YouTube I think is to use one of available free plug-in called “video downloader”. It is a free Firefox plugin, also a quick and convenient way to extract your favorite YouTube videos using this add-on. Besides YouTube, this plug-in supports other video streaming sites including Metacafe, Google Videos and Dailymotion.

YouTube Grabber
YouTube Grabber downloads files from YouTube in .FLV format. Copy and paste the URL of a video from YouTube into the program, press “grab”, and the file will be downloaded into the same directory as the program.

Part 2 How to convert YouTube video to sync to iTunes

Mostly, the video downloaded from YouTube is FLV format that isn’t compatible with iTunes. To put YouTube video to iTunes, you are required to convert YouTube video (.flv) to iTunes file which should be mp4.
Here we will introduce two ways for your reference.

Online video converter
Free online Video Converter like zamzar.com, vixy.net/, KeepVid.com, etc are all web-based video downloader and online Video Converter.

However, these online video converters often offer a poor service. Someone claims that half of their videos after conversion cant be played in iTunes. Others claim that the video comes out poor quality.

Anyway, you may give it a go to see how it works by your own!

An alternative – YouTube iTunes Converter
Since most of the online converters cant satisfy us, then some developers has developed a desktop application which can convert YouTube Video to iTunes. These tools have a rich codec embedded and usually offer a simple editing function. Here iSkysoft iPod Movie Converter which is a good YouTube iTunes Converter that will convert YouTube to iTunes directly.

The process is very simple. Just follow the steps below.
Step 1 download iSkysoft iPod Movie Converter, install and run it.
Step 2 go to “convert to” to set the output format.
Step 3 go to “target path” to set the output location.
Step 4 hit “start” to begin the conversion.