VLC for Mobile is a port of the free VLC media player to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly. VLC Media Player for Mac is a powerful and efficient app for playing all kinds of media in multiple formats right on your Mac. With this app in place, you can just download and watch what you want.
VLC for iOS is one of the most popular third-party media player on the App Store, and is capable of playing almost any video format. Here are some tips and tricks that’ll help you make the most of VLC for iOS’ feature set
Add files via iTunes
One of the first things you’ll want to do after installing VLC is add video files to the app. You can do this through several ways, one of which is through iTunes. Just make sure your iPhone or iPad is connected to iTunes running on your PC/Mac, click on your device, and view the “Apps” tab. Scroll down to the File Sharing section, find VLC in the apps list and drag and drop the files you want to add to your device.
Add files via HTTP server
If the iTunes way sounds too tedious, you can simply tell VLC to start its own web server, and you can wirelessly upload files to your device using any browser connected to the same network. To start the server, open the side-menu by tapping on the VLC icon at the top-right, and then tap on WiFi Upload. Once you tap it, it should start and display the address you need to enter on your web-browser:
Download files directly from the internet
If you don’t have videos stored locally on your PC/Mac, you can even download them straight to VLC if you have a direct URL to the video. Open the side-menu, and tap on “Downloads.” You should see a URL field, where you can enter the direct URL, and VLC should start downloading it for you:
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Passcode lock
Have videos you don’t want everyone to see? You can protect them with a passcode within the VLC app. To set a passcode, tap the VLC icon at the top-left, go to Settings > and turn Passcode Lock on. You’ll be asked to enter a 4 digit passcode.
AirPlay
VLC doesn’t natively support AirPlay video streaming, but you can still view your videos in VLC on your Apple TV by using the AirPlay mirroring option in Control Center.
Dropbox
Have a lot of videos stored in your Dropbox? VLC can download them for you and play it from the app. Open the side menu by tapping the VLC icon at the top-right, tap on Dropbox, sign-in, and you should see your In version 2.2 (not released yet), the developers plan to add Dropbox streaming and Google Drive integration.
Subtitles
VLC also includes support for subtitles. Some video formats natively support subtitles while for others, you need a separate .sub file. If you need to add a separate .sub file, name it similar to the video filename, and add it to VLC for iOS via any of the file transfer means described above. VLC will automatically associate the two and show you subtitles.
Change Audio Track
Some video formats contain multiple audio tracks, mostly for different languages. You can switch between different audio tracks by tapping the speech bubble button seen below:
Background Audio
Did you know you can close VLC, and still have the file’s audio play in the background? This is very handy when you want to switch to a different app for a couple of minutes of work, but don’t want to pause playback.
Adjust Playback Speed
You can also adjust the playback speed of a video, if a video is too fast or slow for your liking. Just tap on the clock icon in the playing screen and adjust the slider:
Stream local media with Plex or any other DLNA server
Have TBs of movies, TV shows and other videos on your HDD that can’t be transferred to your iOS device? Install Plex Media Server on your desktop and stream all your videos off your Mac/PC within your local network using VLC. Instructions here.
Think we’ve missed any tips? Tell us in the comments below.
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AC3/VLC/iPad question
'Greetings All, Is there a fix/work around for using the AC3 codec in VLC? I googled the question and I saw some older posts about it but their fix was to change my location to Canada (which didnt work). If I want to download and play movies that use that audio codec how do I make it work on my ipad? Use a different player (other than VLC)? Is there a more timely fix than just changing my location? Thanks'
Any VLC alternative apps to play AC3 codec on iPhone/iPad?
As the AC3 codec has been removed from VLC for iOS, most people using VLC on iPhone or iPad has encounter the problem to play video encoded with AC3 codec. After searching on the Internet for VLC alternative app for playing AC3 codec on iPhone, you may disappointedly to find that most iOS media players has been forced to remove AC3 codec support such as GoodPlayer, PowerPlayer, WMV Player, exPlayer HD, BUZZ Player HD, etc.
Transcode AC3 to AAC/MP3 for VLC on iOS
Therefore, it seems very difficult to find an alternative app to handle AC3 codec iOS
playback issues. The only effective way to fix this issue is to transcode the AC3 codec to other VLC for iOS supported audio codec such as AAC or MP3 audio code.
Here, you can complete the work by downloading a trial version of Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate for Windows/Mac, with the program, you can easily convert AC3 to VLC app for iPhone/iPad readable AAC or MP3 codec with just one click.
Apart from that, the program also offer you many beneficial video customizing and editing functions. You can trim the unwanted parts from the video file with AC3 audio codec, merge separate video clips into one, split large video file into small ones by file size, number or count, you can also adjust the output audio codec, sample rate, bit rate or channels to get better audio effect.
How to convert AC3 to AAC/MP3 for Playing on VLC for iPhone/iPad?
Step 1: Add video files with AC3 audio codec to the program.
Run the program on your computer click 'File' to load video source with AC3 audio codec.
Step 2: Pick output file format.
Click the 'Format' bar, from its drop-down list, choose VLC app for iPhone/iPad supported AAC or MP3 audio codec from 'Common Audio' > 'AAC -Advanced Audio Coding (*.aac)' or 'MP3 - MPEG Layer - 3 Audio(*.mp3)'.
Step 3: Trim video file size.
You can cut off the unwanted parts from a long video to short ones by setting the start time and ending time.
Step 4: Begin the conversion process.
Go back to the main UI and click 'Convert'button to start AC3 to VLC for iOS compatible AAC or MP3 codec conversion process.
When the conversion is completed, click 'Open Output Folder' on the main interface to pop out the folder with your converted files, you will then have no problem to play AC3 codec on your iPhone/iPad with VLC media player.
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