VLC is my video player of choice on both my Windows and Mac computers. It’s small, it’s light on resources, and it plays just about every video format you care to mention. It also has a few neat tricks up its sleeve. One I just learned was how to normalize volume in VLC for Windows. To begin with, launch VLC and click Show Extended Settings button to bring up EQ settings window. Under Graphic Equalizer tab, click Enable checkbox to enable the equalizer, select a Preset from the given list and start setting the EQ levels as required. The 'Flat' Audio Equalizer is the default choice; I don't set the Audio Equalizer to 'Flat' and never stated so, for you to assume and infer I did makes you look ignorant. By Default, the Pre-Amp for the 'Flat' Audio Equalizer is set to above the zero point. By Default, the Flat Audio Equalizer and Pre-Amp are on. By Default, the audio distorts.

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VLC Media Player. If you’re looking for free music apps for Mac, there are only a few that can compete with VLC Media Player. While predominantly a video player, VLC also offers a solid audio solution for music lovers. Moreover, while playing multimedia content, you can use VLC Media Player's 'Audio Effects' window to enable and adjust an equalizer, a dynamic range compressor, an audio spatializer and a number of filters that will make the audio experience a lot more enjoyable, for example, if you're watching your movies or listening to podcasts wearing.

VLC includes a system of filters that allow you to modify the audio and video.

2Video filters
3Audio filters

Deinterlacement and Post Processing

VLC is able to deinterlace a video stream using different deinterlacement methods. Deinterlacement can be enabled in the Video menu, Deinterlacement menu item. The Blend methods gives the best results in most cases. The discard method is a less resource consuming alternative, although its results may be slightly compromised.

On some particular streams (MPEG 4, DivX, Xvid, Sorenson, etc.), some additional image filtering can be applied to the video before display, improving its quality in some cases. This can be enabled by using the Post processing menu item in Video. Different levels of post processing can be chosen here. A higher level means more filtering.

Video filters

Summary

VLC features several filters able to change the video (distortion, brightness adjustment, motion blurring, etc.).

In Windows and Linux, the user must go to the Effects and Filters in the Tools menu item. A dialogue box entitled 'Adjustments and Effects' will appear.

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In macOS you can enable these filters through the Extended Controls panel. Click on the triangle next to Video filters to select your filters or expand the Adjust Image section to change the contrast, hue, etc.

iOS:

Example of combined effects on a video:

Rotate

You can easily rotate a video. Open the Effects and Filters dialog, in the Tools menu

Select the Video Effects tab, then the Geometry one.

Check the Transform checkbox to use rotation presets (90°, 180°, 270°) or check the Rotate checkbox to manually select the angle you wish to apply.

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Audio filters

Equalizer

VLC features a 10-band graphical equalizer, a device used to alter the relative frequencies of audio (e.g. for a bass boost). You can display it by activating the advanced GUI on wxWidgets or by clicking the Equalizer button on the macOS interface. The following image is the interface of the audio equalizer in the Windows and GNU/Linux interface.

The equalizer in the macOS interface

Presets are available in all of these dialog boxes.

Other audio filters

At the moment, VLC features two other audio filters: a volume normalizer and a filter providing sound spatialization with a headphone. They can be enabled in the Effects and Filters menu item in the Tools tab of the Windows and GNU/Linux interface and in the Audio section of the Extended Controls panel of the macOS interface.

For better control, you need to go to the preferences. To select the filters to be enabled, go to Audio, then to Filters. In the 'audio filters' box, enter the names of the filters to enable, separated by commas. Valid names are 'equalizer', 'normvol' and 'headphone'.

If you want to tune the behavior of these filters, go to Audio, Filters, [your filter]. The equalizer and headphone filters can be tuned.

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