Friday, September 6, 2013

VLC Media Player Tweak for Perfect Viewing Experience

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I know you are here to learn something about VLC that is interesting enough and which is fresh and new.. you need to do something crazy with VLC media player but you seem to know only those things which your friends already know. We all are aware of the crazy shortcut keys that VLC media player has in it (Just in case if you dont know, I've included few shortcut keys in this article for you  to explore) which makes the experience of VLC media player better than any other media player.

This article covers
  1. Shortcut Keys in VLC Media Player and
  2. Full Screen Tweak
1. Shortcut Keys

If you have no idea about vlc media player's shortcuts, 

then go ahead and start vlc media player and 

click on T
ools/ Preferences and then hot keys on the window that pops up...

you will see a variety of shortcuts from

PLAY

Space Bar- Pause and Play
S- Stop
Ctrl+L- Playlist
Shift+Left-  5 Seconds Backward Jump
Shift+Right- 5 Seconds Forward Jump
Alt+Left- 10 Seconds Backward Jump
Alt+Right- 10 Seconds Forward Jump
Ctrl+Left- 1 Minute Backward Jump
Ctrl+Right- 1 Minute Forward Jump

VOLUME

M- Mute
Ctrl+ up - Increasing Volume
Ctrl+ down -  Decreasing Volume

TIME

T- Display Time
Ctrl + T - Time Toggle

SUBTITLE


G - Subtitle Delay
H - Subtitle Advance

AUDIO

J - Audio Delay
K - Audio Advance
B - Audio Toggle for #DualAudio Movies

and so on.. you will have a lot of fun once you get used to it, you will love the experience of watching a movie with the key board at your hand.

F- Full Screen


Now lets have a look at 

2. The TWEAK

Steps

  1. Open any video in VLC Media Player
  2. Now press 'F' key to view the video in full screen
  3. Alt+Space+S and move your cursor or Arrow/ Navigation keys and hit enter 
  4. Alt+Space+M and move your cursor or Arrow/ Navigation keys and hit enter
  5. Repeat steps 3 & 4 till you are satisfied
  6. Bingo...!! 
Now you can watch your video without any borders or title bar or a toolbar as shown below..!!

Snapshots

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