How to Use VLC as Video Converter?

Diana Joan

Aug 21, 2017 03:24 am / Posted by Diana Joan

There's no doubt that VLC is one of the most famous media player for users which is reliable, easy to use. For most users, especially the new VLC user who can't use the VLC quite well. From the uswr0friendly interface, it's a simple app for playing video and music, in fact, underneath this simple appearance, VLC is an excellent video converter, you can take full use of this feature and play wide variety of media files and disc, get you desired video format from VLC. Using VLC as a video converter is easy, you can master this cool skills without any trouble at here.

How to Use VLC as Video Converter Effortlessly

Step 1: Launch VLC media player and click on Media –> Convert / Save.

open vlc

Step 2: Under the file tab you will see two sections. In the first one add the file you want to convert. The second section can be used to embed a subtitle to the converted video that’s already in sync.

Step 3: Using the Add button, select one or more video files to be converted. At the same time, in the Target file box, select the destination folder and the name for the new video/audio file.

open file from vlc

Step 4: Under Profile, choose the target format from the list of formats. VLC can easily convert videos into different formats such as MPEG, MP4, AVI, Divx, ASF, WMV, or DVD.

choose output video

Tip 1: If you want to adjust the videos by yourself, there are also a number of optimized profiles with the optimal settings, you can choose the supported video and audio codecs and have access to all advanced options like bit rate, resolution, frame rate, and audio quality.

Tip 2: With special filters, you can also change or optimize the video or audio track during the conversion process. For example, you can rotate recorded videos 90 degree or add a watermark or logo.

video setting

Step 5: Once you've finished all the settings, click Start to begin the conversion. The VLC media player will stream the video with fast speed.

Tip: The video conversion time depends on the video length, the settings you have chosen, and the speed of your PC.

Are You Happy When You Are Using VLC as Video Converter?

VLC is a perfect media player and a pretty good video converter, but compared with some professional video converter, VLC is not as powerful as it's playback feature. It only can support the limited video format, can't do the batch video conversion, doesn't support the GPU acceleration, etc. If you want to get the best video conversion service, you may need to fond another powerful video converter, maybe Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac (mac OS High Sierra) is the software you are looking for.

This video converter supports multiple video formats, you can load the common video, HD video, 4K video, 3D video files to it, also you can load the DVD and Blu-ray disc, disc image or folder to it too. This software output about 200+ video formats: MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, etc. Best of all, you can upscale HD video to 4K video, convert common 2D video to 3D video, also you can downscale 4K video to HD video, etc.

Mention the video conversion, you not only can load the folder with multiple video files and do batch video conversion, in addition, you can enjoy the 30x faster speed than other video conversion when you choose the video with H.264 or H.265 codec, this software takes full use of the NVIDIA CUDA technology and AMD ® Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) techology. You can find more features from this review.

Quick Guide: Convert or Edit the video at will

Step 1. Run the program on your computer and click "File" > "Add Video/Audio" or "Add from folder" to add video files into the program.

Step 2. Choose output video format by clicking Format, you also can choose HD video, 4K video, 3D video, also you can choose the portable devices you want to play video on: iPad, iPhone, PS4, Xbox One, or choose the NLE software: Sony Vegas, iMovie, FCP, etc.

Output Camtasia Studio supported editing formats

Tip 1: Click "Settings" to open "Profile Settings" window, here, you can change the video related parameters, open it, you can adjust the video frame rate, video resolution, video bitrate, audio channels, audio sample rate, etc.

Tip 2: You can edit the video by clicking Editing icon and enter the video editing profile window, change the video effect by adding watermark, adding text, adding subtitles to video, or you can crop, split the video or merge video by your own need.

Edit MP4 video

Step 5. After all setting is completed, click right-bottom "Convert" button to begin the video conversion process.

Choosing the Best Video Converter for Your Precious Videos

Video Converter Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate VLC Media Player
Video Input
Common Video 200+ 100+
DVD/Blu-ray video Yes Yes
Video Output 250+ 100+
Batch Convert Yes No
GPU Acceleration Yes No
Video Playnback Yes Yes
Video Editing
Rotate video Yes Yes
Merge video Yes No
Crop video Yes No
Add subtitles Yes No
Replace music Yes No
Video Setting
Video codec Yes Yes
Audio codec Yes Yes
Video resolution Yes Yes
Video bitrate Yes Yes

Conclusion: You can choose any one by your own need, if you have some troubles on VLC, above proffessional video converter also can help you, you can solve these VLC playback troubles:

DVD on VLC | H.265/HEVC on VLC | 4K videos on VLC | 3D Movies on VLC | Blu-ray on VLC | ISO on VLC


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