At the other side a number will show the length of the media you are playing and in-between is a slider with the current time. To see how long you have been watching the current piece of media counts up above the play pause button in a time. To unmute press use any of the things you used to mute the volume again. Another way to mute the volume is to Audio ‣ Mute. The button that looks like a speaker next to this toggles mute in VLC. Or hover the cursor over this bar and use the mousewheel to control volume. Click farther to the right to increase volume within VLC or press Up arrow to increase volume or Down arrow to decrease volume. On the bottom right of VLC there is a bar that gets wider for volume.

To have VLC always on top View ‣ Always on top and check the checkbox in the menu and use the menu the same way again to make it back to how it was before. To toggle fullscreen press the button which has the four corners of the screen or Video ‣ Fullscreen to make it fullscreen and the four corners to have it back into windowed mode. To stop playing a file completely press the square stop button or Playback ‣ Stop. To resume playback press the play button which looks like a triangle or Playback ‣ Play. To pause playback of a file press the button that look like two vertical lines or Playback ‣ Pause. If you have copied a path in your clipboard you can press Control +V or Media ‣ Open Location from clipboard to quickly open a location in your clipboard. VLC also keeps track of recently opened media in case you want to view media again in Media ‣ Open Recent Media ‣ file name.

To open a whole directory use Media ‣ Open Directory or press control +F. If you wish to open media from somewhere on the internet on Media ‣ Open Network Stream or press Control + N. If you want to say listen to two videos or songs from an album you hold Control +left click to open multiple files at once or press Control+A to select all files in a folder. If you have music on a USB device, optical disk, or another partition the Devices segment will let you navigate to those files from here. To open media stored locally on your system click media open Media ‣ Open File and navigate your local files or press control +o on the keyboard to open files stored locally on your machine.

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