VLC Banned in India!
If you are and Indian and trying to download and install VLC media player in your PC, then this news might obstruct you. Indian government has banned VLC in India on 13th August 2022, restricting its official site and software updates. Although, those users who already has installed VLC in their PC will have no effect, yet there is no way left to update VLC to latest version.
Why you need to Install VLC Media Player in PC?
VLC media player is one of the most popular media players in the world, it offers dozens of features for free that other media player don't have. Here are the list of features that let anyone install VLC in the first place.
Reasons to Install VLC Media Player:
Fastest Media Player :
VLC media player is no doubt the fastest media player of all time, it can play any video format seamlessly without any lag issue and doesn't eat much RAM of your PC.
Compatibility :
VLC media player is one of the oldest and well-supported media player in all the operating systems. You can install VLC on Windows, MAC, or in any Linux distribution easily. VLC provides package installer for all of these operating systems.
Network Streaming :
After installing VLC media player in your PC, you don't have to worry about network streaming videos. VLC let you stream videos from most popular video streaming sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Buzztube etc. You just have to install VLC and paste the streaming link in it, VLC will take care of the rest.
Audio and Video Format Support:
VLC support almost all video and audio formats including MP4, MPEG, WMV, MKV, 3GP, AVI, WAV, TS, MP3, OGG and many more. Such an enormous support of video and audio formats make VLC the most used player for all type of users including Windows, MAC and Linux users.
Audio and Video Filters:
The most important feature of VLC that most of the other players lack, is its capability to edit videos using audio and video filters. Installing VLC will unlock a bunch of useful audio filter like visualization, pitch manipulation, equalizer and some video filters like Image filters, Geometry filters, Color Adjustment filter, Watermark filter etc. These filters can let you edit video without any heavy video editing software.
Video conversion :
If you have VLC installed in your PC, you don't need any media converter to convert video in one format to other, or convert video into audio. VLC has a convert/save option, which let you convert videos in all possible formats. You can convert MP4 to MKV, MKV to MP4, MPEG to AVI, AVI to WMV, AVI to MP3, MP3 to OGG and any other combination possible. Installing VLC will eliminate the need of any other video editing tools that cost you money.
Advance Controls :
VLC also comes with a bunch of advance video controls, these controls let you take snapshot in video, trim video or loop between the two points. Advance controls comes very handy when you want to keep a clip of video for later use, or you like to screenshot any frame to use as image somewhere.
Player Themes and Skins :
When you install VLC in your PC, it uses its default skin for the interface, but you can change VLC look and feel using skins or themes. Skins transform your VLC media player to look completely different. There are hundreds of free skins provided by VLC developers which let you customize VLC media player interface according to your taste.
These are few of many features that VLC media player provides, if you want to try them all, you need to download and install VLC in your PC. So, let's jump to the method how to install VLC in Windows 64 bit
Trick to Download and Install VLC Media Player in Windows PC
After Indian government banned VLC media player, you have to download it from other sources, you can try online directories like Softpedia, FileHippo, Softonic etc. These online sites provides VLC setup from their own servers that's you will be able to download VLC even after ban.
For the sake of this blog post, We are going to discuss the method shown in the video above. We are going to download and install from open online directories.
- Open Google Search bar in your browser and search for 'index of VLC'
- In the search results open the first one to download 64 bit of VLC media player.
- On the next page, you will see a list of VLC setup files in different formats.
- Download EXE or zip version of VLC by clicking on corresponding links.
- Once download gets completed, Install VLC by following the Installation Wizard.
How to Download and Install VLC in MAC?
Installing VLC in MAC follow the same process as VLC Windows installation. The only thing you need to change is now you have to search VLC package for macOS. So, let's see how to do that.
Steps to Download VLC on MAC after Banned in India
- Go to Google.com, search for 'index of VLC mac'.
- In the search results that appear, choose probably the third one.
- On the next page, you will find .dmg packages of VLC media player.
- Download .dmg package of VLC and follow the installation wizard further.
VLC Media Player Installation on Android
VLC media player installation on Android is not blocked by Indian Government, that's why you can download and install VLC from the play store just like any other apps. Even if you find difficulty installing VLC media player in Android, you can follow the below steps to download VLC from play store.
Steps for Installing VLC media player in Android Smartphones
- Open Google Playstore in your android smartphone.
- Search for 'VLC Media Player' in the search box.
- In the search result appear, look for VLC by videolan.org
- Make sure you won't download any duplicate or identical apps that just look like VLC.
- Tap on the green 'Install' button to begin downloading VLC to your android phone.
- Once download and Installation is complete, Open VLC for first time configuration on Android.
- On first launch, VLC media player may ask you to allow storage access and other permission.
- VLC may also ask you to choose between dark and light theme.
- After completing first time configuration, VLC will scan all media files from your internal storage, and you will now be able to play them in VLC media player.
Final Words :
We all going to miss VLC media player on our PC. Using the above methods, you will only be able to install versions available on the internet, but not be able to get other VLC updates. VLC official website provide video codecs, audio codecs, VLC skins and other feature updates, but we won't be able to install it from official site.
All we can do is to keep searching for new version packages on internet, download them, uninstall old VLC version and install new ones. So that's all from my side about installing VLC media player after ban in India. See you next time. All the best