Skip to Main Content
Ubuntu: Up and Running
book

Ubuntu: Up and Running

by Robin Nixon
April 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
12h 7m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Ubuntu: Up and Running

VLC Media Player

The Ubuntu Movie Player is great for a basic program, but if you want bells and whistles you may wish to try the VLC Media Player, which you can download and install in the usual way by entering “vlc” in the search field of the Ubuntu Software Center. Once installed, it becomes available in the Applications Sound & Video menu.

Figure 14-4 shows the minimal window that appears when you run it. But don’t be fooled by its modest appearance, because VLC is packed with powerful features for playing just about any kind of media, including DVDs and network streams. It can even convert and save files in different formats.

The VLC media player

Figure 14-4. The VLC media player

It’s well worth your time to browse through the various menus to discover the features that VLC offers, which also include a graphic equalizer and spatializer, as well as image transformation effects such as sharpening, rotation, cropping, and more.

Note

To open files in VLC, you can right-click them and select Open With VLC media player. To associate VLC as the default player for a file type, right-click a file and select Properties, click the Open With tab, and then click the radio button next to “VLC media player.”

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Ubuntu Made Easy

Ubuntu Made Easy

Rickford Grant, Phil Bull
Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition

Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition

Rickford Grant, Phil Bull
CentOS Quick Start Guide

CentOS Quick Start Guide

Shiwang Kalkhanda

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781449382827Errata Page