Change how VLC looks with customizable skins You can stream tons of free audio and video using the preloaded Internet playlist, or add your own by entering the URL of your favorite podcasts’ RSS feeds. If you want to track your favorite podcasts, simply click the gray plus button next to the Podcasts option and enter the URL for the RSS feed of the podcast you want to stream. Click View > Playlist to bring up the playlist view, then click on the Internet option to reveal a large number of listening options - including hundreds of Internet radio stations from around the world. VLC is no one-trick pony: The media player sports several audio options that can help you manage your podcasts or find something new to listen to. Adjust the options in Preferences > Video > Snapshot if you want VLC to dump screenshots somewhere else.

Screenshots save to your Pictures folder by default, named “VLC-(date and time)”. Just select Video > Snapshot to save a picture of an individual frame. Like the HTC One X, VLC includes a fun feature that lets you easily take screenshots from a video. Media > Open Capture Device displays input from webcams or TV tuner cards so that you can save, stream or just plain view the feed. VLC also plays movies and music from the Internet or over your local network via the Media > Open Network Stream command. Speaking of opening files, OGG and FLAC fans will be happy to hear - literally - that VLC supports almost any file type you throw at it, including ISO disc images. Image courtesy of VideoLAN VLC can handle all sorts of media formats and even ignores region coding, so you can watch your favorite foreign films. If VLC refuses to play your favorite HD disc, installing these hush-hush files (at your own risk!) should help for older Blu-rays with AACS encryption, or you could rip the movie to your hard drive using MakeMKV (more on that later) and watch it as you would any video file in VLC, by selecting Media > Open File. Experimental Blu-ray disc support was added early in 2012, but the Blu-ray encryption system can make that experimental playback more miss than hit.

DVDs aren’t the only physical discs that VLC can read: standard audio CDs, VCDs and SVCDs all play without a hitch as well.

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