VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media players in the world because the system can play a lot of file formats in a clean user interface that is filled with features. It offers multiple recording options. It can work as a screen recorder to let you record your entire desktop screen. You can also use it as a webcam recorder to record videos on your camera. 

Both of recording settings are within the ‘Media’ tab in the ‘Open Capture Device…’ setting. You will need to adjust the settings within the ‘Capture Device’ tab of the window that appears. You will choose ‘Desktop’ to record your screen and ‘DirectShow’ to use your camera as a recorder.

You can easily take screenshots of the video you’re watching by right clicking and hovering above ‘Video’ in the context menu to click on ‘Take Snapshot’. VLC is a converter that lets you change audio and video file formats. You can convert files by going to the ‘Media’ tab and selecting ‘Convert / Save’.

A window will appear where you can include the files that you want to convert from the browser by clicking on the ‘Add…’ button. You can click on the ‘Convert / Save’ button at the bottom of the screen when you have selected your preferred files to transform. There will be a list of file formats within the dropdown menu on the next screen. 

You can choose the format and destination to save the file to. If you are ready to begin the conversion process, then you can press the ‘Start’ button at the bottom of the window. The converted content will be in the folder that you selected.

Change Log

Version 3.0.20

Video Output:

 - Fix the green line in fullscreen in the D3D11 video output

 - Fix crashes with some AMD driver's old versions

 - Fix events propagation issue when double-clicking with the mouse wheel

Decoders:

 - Fix crash when AV1 hardware decoder fails

Interface:

 - Fix the annoying disappearance of the Windows fullscreen controller

Demuxers:

 - Fix potential security issue (OOB Write) on MMS:// by checking user size bounds

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