VLC Media Player is universal and is available for Android TVs. Besides being freely available for desktops/laptops (PC/Windows, Mac and Linux) and Mobile Devices (Android, iPhone/iPad and Windows Mobile), it can be installed on our big screens. That is if our big screens is powered by Android TV or if we have an Android TV Box like the Xiaomi Mi TV Box S. It is officially available at the Google Play Store for Android TV. This version of the Play Store holds a fewer number of apps designed specially for smart Android televisions. The app is also called VLC for Android and is similar to the Android Phone version. Installing VLC Media Player on your Android TV is as easy as locating the app on the Play Store and hitting install.
This post will be a visual guide to install and use VLC Media Player on your Android TV.
Installing VLC Media Player
- From your home screen, locate Google Play Store and click on it with your remote.
- Search for VLC in the Play Store for Android TV and click on it.
- Hit Install on the app listing page.
- Once the app installation is complete, you can open it. It can also be accessed from the All Apps section.
Using the VLC for Android App
The first time you run the app, give it the necessary permissions to access your storage media.
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- Installing using the downloaded archive file (7z or zip) Locate and open your downloaded archive file for VLC Media Player. The file name is something like vlc-2.1.0-win32.zip or vlc-2.1.0-win32.7z. As mentioned before, you will need a archive opening program such as WinRar or 7 Zip. Here the file is being opened using WinRar.
Support for NPAPI plugins was removed from all modern web browsers, so VLC's plugin is no longer maintained. The last version is 3.0.4 and can be found here. It will not receive any further updates. Older versions of Mac OS X and VLC media player. We provide older releases for users who wish to deploy our software on legacy releases of Mac OS X. The plugins are available for Intel Mac and Power Mac users. They require the OS X version to be 10.5 or lower. Installing in Mac OS X. Download VLC installation file from the location mentioned above (VideoLAN website). Locate the downloaded file which will.
Now, you can access Video, Audio, Browsing and Other sections from the Left. Enable bonjour mac. Video and Audio is to access your local media and media from the library.
Browsing allows you to access folders--Internal memory, USB storage, Local memory and Streaming devices.
Locate a media file and tap on it to open it with the app. When any media is open, hit the down button to bring up the navigation. Scroll through it using the left/right arrows once the timeline is highlighted. Pressing left/right buttons will skip 10 seconds forward or backward.
Press on the up button to bring up the settings. From Other > Settings, we can access all the necessary settings. The settings are quite similar to the one that you see in smartphones.
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We can choose the media library folders, auto re-scan, video options, playback history settings, and extra settings related to Interface, Video, Subtitles, Audio and Advanced. Check out our complete guide for Android’s VLC to know every detail about these settings.