How to use vlc media player?

Guide on useing vlc media player.

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In the modern information-based society, various of formats video are offered to us. But we gennerly just install one media player which can not paly all formats videos and audeos. Now we have vlc media player, that can help us solve this matter.

Vlc media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program. It can play MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and DVDs, VCDs, Audio CDs and so on.

Though we have this multi-function software, but we don't know how to use it. So the problem has not been solved. Don't worry. Let us tell you.

Step 1. After you install it, double clicks the icon of vlc media player. Makes it run.



Step 2. Click File, then choose Open File or Disc, depending on what you plan on streaming. For this example, it's an avi file. The Directory option does not allow Stream/Save.



Step 3. Click the Browse button at the top right of the Open dialog box that opens. Choose the file you would like to stream and either double click it or click Open.

Step 4. Now check "Stream/ Save" in the bottom left corner, and click the Settings... button.

Step 5. You will be greeted by the Stream output dialog box. Check the Play Locally box if you want the file to play on the computer you're setting up. Click the UDP box, fill in the IP address of the computer you are going to be streaming to, and leave the Port as 1234.



Step 6. Click OK to go back to the file open dialog.

Step 7. Click OK again to begin the streaming. Depending on if you chose to play the file locally, the video may or may not begin playing on the local machine.

Step 8. Go to the computer you are streaming to. Install VLC (if you haven't already) and run the program.

Step 9. Click File, then choose Open Network Stream. Don't change any settings and click OK.

Step 10. If everything has gone right, the file should start playing on the remote computer after 10 seconds or so!