To set a video as a background or wallpaper in VLC, just open up a video and in the top menu click on Video, and then Set as Wallpaper. Seems simple enough but it doesn’t stay simple in my case. The video, when set, opens […]
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It happens. You play a video in VLC and it doesn’t fill up the screen. You still end up with black bars above and below the video. In this case, you might have to play around with the Zoom, Aspect Ratio, or Cropping options in
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If you have two or more monitors and you want your videos to open on a second or third monitor, full screen, then do the following: Go to Tools and then Preferences or press Ctrl + P. Click on the Video icon towards the top.
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I read about someone having issues with streaming YouTube videos using VLC and found out that I had the same issues. Research online found a lot of little tweaks that didn’t work. But I finally found a solution that did. Here is the link to
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My uncle sends me links to videos on Facebook and wants me to get the lyrics for the songs. Sometimes you can just find them online. Other times, I find myself just listening to the song and writing them out. Sometimes the words are not
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I came across a post on Reddit about someone trying to stream from archive.org (the people trying to back up the internet) so I decided to check it out. It can be done. I’ll give you the same answer that I gave that Redditor. Go
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This method only works through your local network and not over the Internet. You can start up a movie on one of your computers and stream it to other computers on your network, and maybe your phone (untested). Set Up The Server First, open up
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Updating VLC is usually not an issue if, like me, you have it set to automatic. I had version 3.0.12 Vetinari and every time it tried to update, I would get an error message that at first I completely ignored. The message kept popping up
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I learned a new way to download YouTube videos by just using VLC. Decided to try it. Here are my end results. This requires VLC media player from: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ So first go to YouTube to get your video link. I’m going to be using the
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Just a quick tip. If you use playlists in VLC, you can separate the playlist from the player by going to the View menu and clicking on Docked Playlist. If this is checked, the playlist is embedded into the player but uncheck it and you
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