Despite there being an option for Windows version of VLC, it seems to be absent in the OS X implementation of it. In order to run multiple instance of VLC on OS X you will have to open up Terminal and run the following command
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC
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- Step 1 Open VLC, Click on the Menu option available at the left hand side for the proper running of the RTMP Files with the VLC Media Player on Windows. Step 2 Then click on the Open Network Stream, and then paste the URL of the video you want to play on VLC Media Player.
- VLC is a free and open source multimedia player available for multiple platforms, including Windows and Mac. When you install VLC on Windows or Mac, it doesn’t become the default player automatically. However, you can play videos with VLC by default by changing some simple settings.
This assumes that you installed VLC into the Applications folder. Otherwise you will have change it to the appropriate path where it is installed. It seems that running multiple instances of a program is discouraged by Apple’s usability guidelines (as mentioned by the forum poster) which would be ironic as I believe QuickTime files in Windows all open in a new window / instance as opposed to using an existing one.
The VLC media player is an open-source multimedia platform which is available in Operating system as well as in mobile such as iOS, Windows 10, Android, Linux and more. It was developed by the VideoLAN project in February (2001). This VLC Player alternative can be downloaded from Microsoft Store. ACG Player Best Features. Lightweight: ACG Player is very lightweight and it can run flawlessly even on Windows tablets. Touch Screen Controls: Unlike VLC Player, ACG Player offers complete gesture-based playback controls.
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- 1How to create a thumbnail from a video
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.
test.mpg specifies the video to play and finally vlc://quit forces vlc to quit when ready.
Creating a contact sheet
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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:
For more on the tool you can check the associated montage help page.
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