Increase & Decrease Video Playback Speed in VLC Player

At times I speed through videos (like training videos) to absorb more in the same time.

In VLC, using the keyboard, you can press:

• + to increase the playback speed (i.e. vide plays faster that the normal frame rate)
• -  to decrease the playback speed  (i.e. vide plays slower that the normal frame rate)
• [  to decrease the playback speed in finer increments than pressing -
• ]  to increase the playback speed in finer increments than pressing +

Using the mouse you can:

• Click on the arrows on either side of the playback control slider. The one on the right side increases speed while the one on the left decreases the speed
• Right-click the speed label in the bottom menu of VLC to adjust the speed.

References:
This post is possible because of the painstaking recording of procedures and facts by a number of sites. Here are some that helped me arrive at the solutions:

• http://www.howtogeek.com/196371/master-vlc-with-these-23-keyboard-shortcuts/
• http://www.makeuseof.com/answers/change-playback-speed-videos-vlc-media-player/
• https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=99610
• http://superuser.com/questions/546278/what-speed-is-fast-and-faster-in-vlc 

How to take a screenshot/screengrab of a video

Just figured out how to take a screenshot of a video playing in almost application.

Just turn off the hardware acceleration option and then either use the PrintScreen button or any screen capture other application (like IrfanView, Snaggit etc.). :)

Once you are done, it would be a good idea to turn on the acceleration again.

Here are a couple of grabs of the WMPlayer and VLC Player options which need to be turned off... (It's called different things in the other players like RealPlayer and QuickTime, butthey all work the same way)




If you are using VLC Player the Video>Snapshot option is an alternative. Here is a grab...