How to Use VLC as Screen Capturing Tool

VLC media player is a fantastic media player totally for free. It's very easy to use and available for almost all operating systems such as Windows, Mac, Linux for desktop and Android, iOS for mobile devices. This software can be used differently, like streaming media from one device to another, capturing screen, and recording your personal moments by using your laptop camera. In this tutorial, we will talk about how to use VLC as a screen capturing tool on your desktop.

• Part 1. Using VLC Media Player to capture desktop
• Part 2. The easiest way to record your PC or Mac screen
• Part 3. VLC Media Player vs. Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate)

Part 1. Using VLC Media Player to capture desktop.

If you are looking to record the screen of your desktop to make tutorials or just want to record your own personal moments, you can directly make it by using VLC media player on your desktop. VLC media player itself has the feature of recording screen. Please go through the steps below to know how to use VLC media player as a screen capturing tool.

Step 1 Launch VLC media player on your desktop computer first, click on “Media” from the top left first option and select “Open Capture Device”.

Step 2 Select the “Desktop” from the Dropdown menu in the front side of “Capture Mode”.

Step 3 Click on “Browse” button in front of “Destination” and choose the location where you want to save your captured video.

Step 4 After setting up the destination just click on the “Start” button, this will start capturing.

Step 5 Once starting, VLC will show you time of recording in the interface. Now use your computer as usual and do whatever you want to record from your screen. When the recording ends, just click on the “Stop button” in the VLC and the file will be saved to the location where you select before starting.

VLC player also enables users to record their own videos. In that case, VLC media player uses your webcam making it extremely easy to share your videos with your friends.

Part 2. The easiest way to record your PC or Mac screen.

Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) software is a program to capture screen and make video tutorials on Windows and Mac devices. Known as a complete video tool to do whatever you want with videos, this software can quickly record your screen with an adjustable recording window, let alone download, convert, burn, stream and edit videos. The detailed amazing features of Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) are list below if you like to know more about it.

Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) - Your Complete Video Toolbox

• Capture the computer screen so as to make a video presentation or tutorials.
• Convert to 1000+ formats, like AVI, MKV, MOV, MP4, etc.
• Burn videos from the local computer, recorded or downloaded videos to DVD for future playback.
• Edit, enhance & personalize your videos file.
• Download/record videos from 10000+ online video sharing sites.
• Best video converter for Apple TV, PSP, PS2, or other devices.
• Versatile toolbox combines fix video metadata, GIF maker, VR converter, and screen recorder
• Industry-leading APEXTRANS technology converts videos with zero quality loss or video compression
• Supported OS: Windows 10/8/7/XP/Vista, Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina), 10.14, 10.13, 10.12, 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.10, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7, 10.6.

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How to Record Your Mac or Computer Screen using Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate)

Step 1 Install and launch the program, you will under the Home tab by default.

Step 2 Switch the Screen Recorder tab, and click the as the picture below.

Step 3 Then a small recording frame with red dotted line will open. Now adjust this frame according to the Capture Area you want to record and ajust the System Audio.

Note: You can adjust recording frame by dragging the cross icon in the middle to move the whole frame.

Step 4 Click the REC button in the right to start capturing screen, there'll be 5 seconds countdown for you to get prepared.

Once you are done, just click the Stop button on the right of the recording task bar or press ESC key to stop recording.

Step 5 Then a file folder named UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) Downloaded would pop up displaying the just captured video for you.

Part 3. VLC Media Player vs. Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate).

After the above guidance and comparison, we can easily tell that the second screen capturing tool Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) is much better. Why not give it a shot right away!