Summary: This article gives a solution to people who are looking for a VLC Converter to convert their favorite videos for playing in VLC Media Player with decent quality.
VLC is an open-source media player application that gives you the ability to play media from your computer or a disk, or to stream it from the Web. Compared to its competitor media players like Windows Media Player, Real Media Player and QuickTime Player, VLC Media Player supports much more file formats as import. Its versatile multi-format playback capability makes VLC become more and more popular. Although VLC supports a huge variety of file formats, different playback issues still occurred every day. Some issues can be solved via software update, codec/plug-in installation, and others can be fixed by format shifting, that’s where a VLC Video Converter comes in.
Why do you need a VLC Video Converter?
1. If your video files are incompatible with VLC, you will need a VLC Converter to do format conversion.
2. If your movies have superb high quality, but you are on a relatively slow computer, you will need a VLC Video Converter to do video compression.
3. If you have playback issues on sound or image, you may need a VLC Converter to transcode your source media to a format that is well compatible with VLC.
How to convert video files for playing in VLC Media Player on Windows or Mac?
Software Requirement
VLC Video Converter
By using this VLC Video Converter program, you are able to convert many popular video and music file formats to whatever format you need for playing in VLC player with very good quality.
Download a demo of VLC Video Converter
The steps:
Step 1: Start up VLC Video Converter. When its main interface pops up, click ‘Add File’ to input your source media.
Step 2: From ‘Profile’ list, choose an output format for VLC
VLC can play MP4, MOV, MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, WMV and a shed load of other media file format. Simply select a format amongst them as output.
Important: If you’ve loaded a number of video clips to do batch conversion, please do remember ticking off ‘Apply to All’ option before you start.
Step 3: Custom video and audio settings
If necessary, you can click ‘Settings’ button and go to ‘Profiles Settings’ panel to modify video and audio settings like video encoder, resolution, video bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio encoder, sample rate, audio bit rate, and audio channels. 3D settings are also available.
Step 4: Start converting VLC files
When ready, click ‘Convert’ to start format conversion. As soon as the conversion is complete, you can click ‘Open Folder’ button to get the exported files for playback in VLC with optimum performance.
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