VLC Player is a powerful, fast, and free open-source media player for Mac and Windows. It is one of the most popular video players on the Internet because of being able to play the most popular and least popular video file formats including ASF, AVI, DVR-MS, FLV, Matroska (MKV), MIDI, [b] QuickTime File Format, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB, RM, DVD-Video, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB.
One minor downfall is the native ability to be able to play multiple video files at once in the VLC application. In this guide, we demonstrate how to play multiple video files using VLC player for Mac X.
VLC documents how to play multiuple video files but we summarized and created simple steps to get multiple video files playing at once quickly.
VLC is a popularly used media player free to use and available for all platforms including, Windows, Mac, Linux, and others. In addition to video playback, this open-source tool supports a wide range of editing features like conversion, merging, and others. Devices and Mac OS X version. VLC media player requires Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later. It runs on any Mac with a 64-bit Intel processor or an Apple Silicon chip. Previous devices are supported by older releases. Note that the first generation of Intel-based Macs equipped with Core Solo or Core Duo processors is no longer supported.
1. Ensure you have the latest version ofVLC Player downloaded and installed on your Mac X. VLC.appmust be located in your Applications folder in order for this to work.
2. Download and unzip this compiled VLC Applet.
3. You will have a file called VLC-MULTIPLE-VIDEO.app on your desktop. The VLC-MULTIPLE-VIDEO.app application acts as another VLC player on your Mac X computer.
4. For any video you want to play in another screen, Right-Click a video file -> Open With -> Other… and choose VLC-MULTIPLE-VIDEO.app. Your video will open in a new VLC Application and will show in your Dock!
Note: Upon first opening a video using the VLC-MUTLIPLE-VIDEO.app file, you will be prompted my Mac to open the file, since it treats it as a new application that has not been opened yet.
You can do this for each video file you want to open separately. Notice the multiple VLC Players appearing in your Dock!
You can also safely place the VLC-MULTIPLE-VIDEO.app inside your Applications folder for easy access later.
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How to create a thumbnail from a video
With new VLC versions (VLC 1.1.0 and above), the thumbnails are generated with scene video filter
If you want to get rid of the sound you can add '--aout=dummy' next to '--vout=dummy'.
For older VLC versions (1.0.0 and below) the same can be done with image output module
What it does:
When VLC media player runs it 'plays' the video for one second without actually showing the video on screen, and then quits, leaving us with a file named 'snap000000.jpg', containing an image of the first frame of the video.
How it works:
First select the image output with: -V image or --vout image.
Next set the interval (in seconds) you want an image from with: --start-time 0 --stop-time 1In my example the first second of the video. In that case you could omit the parameter --start-time. If you want an image from the 5th second fill in: --start-time 5 --stop-time 6
The image format will be .jpg because i provided: --image-out-format jpg. You could specify --image-out-format png to get a .png-image instead.
--image-out-ratio 24 specifies we want one image out of 24. In my case the video contains 24 images per second so this is the right value. If your video has more images per seconds you should increase this value to prevend you get more images as one. If the number is too high (for example 500) it still produces only one image, so the actual value is not so important as long as it is higher then the images per second.
--image-out-prefix snap specifies the filename must start with 'snap'. You can prefix with a path, for example c:snap and resulting images will be created there.
You can specify --image-out-replace. In that case Vlc produces the file 'snap.jpg'. This will prevent VLC from creating multiple images.
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test.mpg specifies the video to play and finally vlc://quit forces vlc to quit when ready.
Creating a contact sheet
Although VLC does not provide an option for creating a contact sheet, one possible solution is to use the ImageMagick 'montage' tool. Taking the images generated by VLC, run the following command:
Epson xp 405 driver for mac. For more on the tool you can check the associated montage help page.
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