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VLC Media Player Shortcuts and Tricks

By Unknown - Sunday, 20 January 2013 No Comments
VLC player is one of the most popular media players in the world. The reason is because it has got simple and clean User Interface, shortcuts and the most important streams video and audio of almost all formats without installing any additional codecs. If you don't have VLC player installed, get latest version from HERE

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VLC Media Player Tricks

Today we have some VLC Media Player tricks and shortcuts which can be very useful to enhance even more user friendly experience. VLC has lots of shortcuts and below are some cool VLC Tricks. So lets get started.

How To Go To A Chosen Time Position In VLC Media Player

While playing a video on VLC media player, if you ever want to jump directly to a chosen time, then reach to the bottom right corner of the player where it displays elapsed and remaining time, simply double-click on it. You'll be getting a 'Go to Time' popup box where you can specify the time at which you would like to jump.
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How To Watch TV And Listen To Free Music and Radio On VLC Media Player

To watch television on your PC, you can do that using your VLC player. No extra plugin or tool is required.

Now, you have already installed VLC, do step by step as below illustrated:-

1) Open VLC media player.
2) Now press Ctrl+L for playlist, This takes you to Playlist window.
3) From the Playlist window options now go to Internet.
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Here you will see some features accessed with internet connectivity only. Refer below screenshot for available options.
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4) Now if you want to listen some free music just use "Free Music Chart" or if you want to watch TV use "Freebox TV" and choose  "Icecast Radio Directory" for radio. In the list you can see list of channels available for each service item. You can choose your desired one to get started. To do the same just right click on the channel and click Play option.

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Try this trick now and have fun.
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10 VLC Media Player shortcuts.


One of the best thing that Windows Media Player lacks is the shortcuts. Windows Media Player can also play all formats, though by installing additional codecs, but still we see it is not so much popular among users especially for watching movies it is not preferred. Here are some VLC media player shortcuts for performing various tasks providing a good user experience.

To view the video on full screen press F

To come back to Previous Window View press Esc key

To Play or Pause the video playback use Space bar

To Forward video: Shift + →Right arrow

To Back over video: Shift + ←Left arrow

To Stop playing of video press S

To Close the vlc player use the shortcut Ctrl + Q

To Increase the Volume: Ctrl + ↑ Up arrow

To Decrease the volume: Ctrl + ↓ Down arrow

To Mute the volume press M


So these were some VLC Media player tricks and shortcuts. Hope you will like these and do share some of your tricks with our readers.

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