VLC provides basic image adjustment options. Under Basic tab, you can
play around with various color adjustments; Hue, Contrast, Brightness,
Gamma, etc. On adjusting the color, you can view changes in realtime.
Color adjustment options can also be very helpful especially when you
are playing a video, having noise, glitches and lacks normal color
pattern.
Kudos to VLC for bringing up sync feature, those who haven’t used it
yet, really missed out an important one. Under Synchronization tab, you
can manually manage the A/V (Audio/video) sync and deal with them by
adjusting the time. Most of the converted videos lacks A/V sync
primarily because of change in FPS (Frames Per Second), this actually
invokes the problem of either video or audio lagging behind. For
adjusting the A/V sync problem, change the values in Advance of audio
over video input pane, positive value refers to as video is lagging
behind and conversely is the case with negative values which refers to
as audio lagging behind.
Right beneath A/V sync settings, you will find Subtitles settings, to
make subtitle properly sync with video, i.e, appears on right time.
Adjust the timing in a way as defined in aforementioned criteria for A/V
sync, positive values refers to subtitles showing up ahead of video. At
the bottom, you can change subtitles speed. It may happen sometimes, on
downloading subtitles from different source, or from different author,
the speed (FPS) is not aligned with the video FPS, i.e, video running on
different FPS and conversely subtitles FPS differs. To cope up with
this problem, speeding of the subtitles option helps amazingly.
Overlaying logo option comes in handy, you can easily insert a logo
(PNG/JPG format) in the video as a watermark. It also helps in
overlaying existing logo with an image. To make use of this feature,
under Logo tab, specify the full path of image where it is residing,
adjust transparency control and allocate the position. The importance of
this feature is that you can add the company logo while giving a video
presentation.
Vout/Overlay is another superb feature, allowing video junkies to spread
the video on the desktop wall in multiple windows. In this way, you can
individually handle, manage and change the position of the video parts
separated in windows. To make this effect look awesome, try it on a
large HD TV or projector. On the left side enabling Add text option
would add the text in each window.
The moment you hit Puzzle game option, it would turn the video into
puzzling pieces. Enter number of columns & rows in which you need to
solve out video puzzle. It divides the video into specified chunks on
the screen.
With an excellent rotation feature, you can rotate the video in any
direction. Enable Rotation option, and start moving the rotary control
in circle
Another intriguing feature is Video Magnification. Under Geometry tab,
enable Magnification/Zoom option, to let it zoom in/out the video. You
will see a small window at top left corner with main magnification
control. Fill in the triangle by clicking it to zoom into the video. To
view the desired video portion, move the square capturing screen across
the box.
The Transform option allows you to rotate video by multiple degrees.
Enabling Transform option would activate the video rotation feature. It
offers rotation in 90,180, and 270 degrees. This comes useful if you
have a video that you recorded via the camcorder in a different angle.
Apart from basic image adjustment options, there is another much
demanded feature which will let you adjust video sharpness up to the
acme of clarity. Under Basic tab, enable Sharpen option and adjust the
sigma control as required. It will show you the changes in realtime so
you can promptly adjust sharpness accordingly.
Scrutinize the wonderful sharp effect it produced in the video shown below.
VLC player being the most celebrated open source media player is also
ranked as the best among thousands of media players available out
there. For novices, it come across as only a “Media Player” but the
fact is, it empowers users with multitude of playback, recording, and
streaming options. What makes it stand out is minimalistic & simple
IDE, smooth playback, capacitating users with multiple file format
support and much more. From the day VideoLAN dav team gushed forth VLC
Player for the general public, we have seen a mass switch from other
eminent media players.
Lets glance at the most overlooked features it offer.
Basic Image Adjustments
Synchronization
Adding Logo
Puzzle game
A Useful Application That Adds Transparency To System Context Menu.
Create Screen Caps And Thumbnail Indexes For Any Number Of Movies.
A Small, Intuitive Program To Create And Edit Animated Gif Images From Various Types Of Graphics.
A Cloud-Based Autorun Manager And Security Analyzer.
A Handy And Reliable Application Designed To Restrict Access To Local Partitions With Just Two Clicks.
Extract (Rip) Songs From Audio CDs And Automatically Convert Them To A Wide Variety Of Different Formats.
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