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How To Use VLC Media Player To Record Screen Activity On Your Computer/Laptop

How To Record Computer Screen Activity With VLC Media Player – VLC Media Player is a multimedia media player that is currently the most widely used among desktop and laptop users. Besides this application is free for all users, it turns out that the VLC media player application has a number of features that are quite useful and one of its features is as a screen recorder on the desktop.

And how to record computer screen activity on VLC media player is quite useful too. Because when we record the screen, all parts of your desktop will be recorded and also for the results of screen recording via VLC it has an Mp4 format so you can directly play it on a mobile device.

How To Use VLC Media Player To Record Screen Activity On Your Computer/Laptop
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So for those of you who are still confused about finding a software to record screen activity on the free version of the desktop, then there is nothing wrong if you try to use this VLC media player as an alternative.


Well, for those of you who are curious about how to use VLC Media Player as an application to record the desktop screen, then it would be nice to have a good look at the steps below:

How to Record Activity on a Computer Screen Using VLC Media Player:

  • The first thing you have to do is open the VLC Media Player application that is already installed on your computer. If you have, then then you click on the media menu and after that click the menu Convert/Save. For more details, you can see in the image below.
How To Use VLC Media Player To Record Screen Activity On Your Computer/Laptop
  • The next step is that you click on the menu capture device. Well, in the capture mode section, please choose
    Desktop. And in the frame rate section, please replace it with 30fps for better image quality. And then please click
    convert/save. And more details about this step you can see through the image below.
How To Use VLC Media Player To Record Screen Activity On Your Computer/Laptop
  • In the conversion window, please on your destination menu click on browse to select the storage location where you will save the screen recording. And after that continue by writing filename which you want to save and if you have then you click save.
How To Use VLC Media Player To Record Screen Activity On Your Computer/Laptop
  • If you have clicked save, to start recording, please select or click
    start like in the picture below.

How To Use VLC Media Player To Record Screen Activity On Your Computer/Laptop
  • And to see the time recording and also stop recording, You can look in the VLC Media Player window and click Stop to stop recording. Well, for the results of the recording, you can play it on a computer or on an Android phone that you have because the file has an MP4 format.
How To Use VLC Media Player To Record Screen Activity On Your Computer/Laptop

Deficiency :

  • The recording activity is aimed at all screens so we can’t take/show only certain parts.
  • There is no cursor indicating mouse movement.

Okay, it’s quite clear, not the explanation above about how to record screen using VLC Media Player. And please, if you are curious about what the results will be, don’t hesitate to try it directly on the computer that you have at home. Thank you for reading this article and I hope it is useful for you.