My favorite: Space to pause the video space to resume play. Here you can see all of the keyboard shortcuts and change them to your liking. While you’re in preferences, click on the hotkeys icon (bottom left). For saving images from video, jpg is probably a better file format. You have two choices for image filetype: png (default) or jpg. If you don’t like vlcsnap as the prefix amended to the filename of the image, change it to something else. At the bottom of the window, you can browse to the folder where you’d like all future video snapshots to go. In the popup window click on the video icon. To change the default location of where snapshots are stored, on the tools menu select “Preferences” (or CTRL+P). The file path will flash briefly in the video window.Įach snapshot follows this naming convention: vlcsnap – today’s date – time in video. Want to take screenshots from the video? On the video menu select “Take Snapshot.” The image file will automatically be saved in your pictures folder – or at least that’s where they are saved for me.

In the popup window that appears, enter the time and click “Go.” If you’d rather not use bookmarks, and you know the time in the video you want to move to, on the playback menu select “Jump to Specific Time.” Or CTRL-T. To navigate to a particular bookmark, double-click on it. Want to create additional bookmarks? Repeat as needed. Go to the spot in the video you want to bookmark, and click the “Create” button. If you’re a keyboard shortcuts sort of person, CTRL+B. On the playback menu, you can add custom bookmarks to your video file.

While this media player has many more features than the average user will ever need, it has a few that are especially noteworthy.

That means that whatever you’re running, e.g., Windows, Mac, Linus, Android, iOS, VLC Media Player will play. The VLC Media Player is arguably the best video player out there.

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