How to Record Desktop Using VLC Player

Open the VLC Player

To enable desktop recording, go to Media > Convert / Save.

Go to the Capture Device tab and on the Capture mode drop down menu, select Desktop.

Select your frame rate under Desired frame rate for the capture And click Convert / Save.

Finally select your codec and the destination and click Start.

To stop recording, click the Stop button.

Now VLC Player acting as a Desktop screen recorder.

How to Play Video As ASCII Characters in VLC Player

Open the Video you want to play as ASCII Character with VLC Player.

To enable this fun feature, go to Tools > Preference and click on Video.

Under the Output drop down box, choose Color ASCII art video output.

Your video will now be displayed entirely in ACSII. 

How to Add Subtitles in Windows Media Player

Go and download the plug-in for window media player from codecpack.com.

Install the plug-in.

Switch on the subtitle feature in the windows media player.

After that open the movie with the windows media player, here goes your movie with subtitles.

If not check the movie name and subtitle name or difference, if different rename the subtitle to the same name.

How to Add Watermarks On Video Using VLC Player

You can add your own watermarks on a video through VLC,

Open the Video you want to watermark with VLC Player

Go to Tools and select Effects and Filters.

Click on the Video Effects tab and under the Overlay tab,

you will get options to either add in your logo or a simple text to the video.

From there you can select the logo or the text to watermark the video.

then save the video and it's done.

How To Play Puzzle game In VLC media Player

Open any video in your VLC media player.

Click on Tools and select Effect & Filters.

Click on the Video effects tab.

Click on the Geometry tab.

Mark Puzzle last in your Right hand side.

You are done.

How to Automatically repair damaged or incomplete AVI files using VLC Media Player

Open VLC.

Click on Tools > Preferences.

Go to the "Input & Codecs" section.

Next to "Damaged or incomplete AVI file", select "Always fix".

Click on "Save", That's it.

How To Convert Video File Into Audio Using VLC Player

Open the VLC player.

Go to media and Select Convert/Save.

Click the Add and load the file you want to convert.

Click convert and select the format.

And then click Start.

That's It.

How to Automatically Download Album Art for MP3 using VLC

You can configure VLC to automatically retrieve the album covers for your MP3 tracks.
First you need to enable this feature:

Open VLC.

Click on Tools > Preferences.

Go to the "Interface" section > Privacy/Network Interaction.

Next to "Album art download policy" select "As soon as track is added".

Click on "Save".