Using VLC Media Player To Your Advantage

Hi MSSS Aspirants,

Unfortunately, even though all of us joined this program with the noblest of intentions of strictly following the lecture schedule and rigidly sticking to the study plan but then the age of Robots has not arrived! Right! It is human nature to get deviated, lose focus and then lag behind the schedule!

But then one must do what needs to be done!

Those who have attended the lectures by downloading the Lecture-Video offline must have observed that there are a lot of advantages of doing the same:

1. First is the most obvious one that the Lecture can paused and played according to the comforts of the student. Also parts can be skipped if already undertaken.
2. Second needs a bit of elaboration with examples. Suppose the student is attending the lecture online {real-time}. Now, if the speed of dissemination of the Lecture is a bit slower than the usual, the student loses focus as the input capability surpasses the real-time input. Or it can happen vice-versa too.

1. Now the same Lecture, if, attended offline {after downloading the WMV video  from Taxila}the above short-coming can be overcome by using the play-speed-tuner facility of the media player like the VLC {VideoLAN Client} Media player.

2. If the instructor is delivering the lecture slow paced and with pauses, the media player can be be tuned to play the video with hyper-Unity speeds like 1.5x. Since the video content is more or less static except for the body-movements of the instructor in the small window located at the upper-right corner, it does not distort the experience of the Lecture. Also an hour long lecture will be reduced by a factor.
3. Similar treatment can be applied if the delivery of the lecture is a bit hasty and student faces loss of comprehension. Then the tuning should be done at sub-Unity speeds like 0.75x.

We have been utilizing this feature and enjoying the benefits of it.

Best wishes!!