媒体播放器对于播放电影或视频等任何多媒体文件至关重要。虽然媒体播放器有相当多的选择，但VLC 媒体播放器(VLC media player)是最受欢迎的。原因是，它是免费的，它提供了一些非常令人印象深刻的功能，可以播放大多数多媒体文件，包括流媒体协议。VLC媒体播放器还支持多种视频格式，可在Windows、Linux、Android和Mac OS等所有平台上运行。免费的开源媒体播放器比付费媒体播放器功能极其强大、易于使用并且可以根据用户需求轻松定制。
尽管有所有令人惊叹的功能，但大多数VLC用户仍然发现缺少一些功能。VLC确实支持视频播放控制、自动字幕等一些基本功能。例如，VLC播放器不记得上次播放的视频或电影文件的视频位置。在这种特殊情况下，假设您关闭了视频。VLC播放器从头开始播放视频，而不是从关闭文件时留下的视频位置自动播放电影。当用户无法一次观看视频时，这很烦人。此外，VLC不会从中断的地方重新开始播放。用户发现还有许多其他功能缺失。为了弥补这一不足，用户可以使用VLC 扩展和插件(VLC extensions and plugins)添加附加功能和自定义选项。
VLC扩展可在VLC官方网站上找到。官方网站提供了可免费下载的经过验证的扩展列表。与Firefox和Chrome的扩展程序不同，只需单击计算机鼠标即可轻松安装扩展程序，安装VLC扩展程序根本不是一件容易的事。VLC媒体播放器使用带有 .lua 扩展名的文件，安装它们是一项充满诡计的繁琐工作。
在本文中，我们提供了一些有关如何在VLC媒体播放器上安装和使用扩展的技巧。但在我们开始之前，值得一提的是，大多数扩展都是为桌面版本提供的，而只有少数是为VLC应用程序的移动版本提供的。此外，插件需要手动安装，用户必须手动启用已安装的扩展。
如何在VLC上添加(VLC)插件(Plugins)和扩展(Extensions)
打开 VLC 媒体播放器。
转到工具(Tools)并从下拉菜单中单击插件和扩展。(Plugins and extensions)
这将显示插件、接口和扩展的列表。如果您从列表中找到任何有趣的扩展，只需单击“安装(Install)”按钮。
为了在 .lua 中安装扩展，请(.lua)转到文件路径C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\extensions。复制 lua 文件以安装扩展。
如果找不到 lua 文件夹，只需创建一个名为lua的文件夹。
在 lua 文件夹中，创建另一个名为“extensions”的文件夹。现在复制里面的lua文件。
复制 lua 文件后，将上传并安装扩展。关闭所有文件夹。
在VLC(VLC)媒体播放器中运行视频以测试和启用扩展。
如果您觉得该列表不令人印象深刻，请转到官方VLC页面，在(VLC)此处(here)查看所有可用于VLC 的扩展。如果您遇到任何令人印象深刻的扩展，那么只需点击下载(Download)按钮。
扩展名是包含.lua 文件的(.lua files.)Zip文件。(Zip)
导航到以下路径C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\Extensions\。复制扩展文件夹中的 .lua 文件以安装扩展。
如果您在下载扩展程序时看到包含少量代码的网页，请将代码复制到记事本(Notepad)中。
转到文件并单击另存为(Save As)选项。将文件命名为VLC Extension.LUA并单击Save as type 下的 All files。
现在单击保存(Save)按钮。
导航到以下路径 - C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\Extensions\并复制扩展文件夹中的 .lua 文件以安装扩展。
运行视频以启用扩展。
That’s all there is to it!
阅读下一篇(Read next)：最佳 VLC 扩展、插件和插件(Best VLC Extensions, Addons & Plug-ins)。
How to add Plugins and Extensions on VLC Media Player
The media player is of paramount importance for plаying any multimedia files like movies or νideоs. While there are considerably large options available for media players, the VLC media player is the most popular one. The reason is, it is free, and it serves some of the extremely impressive features that play most of the multimedia files including streaming protocols. The VLC media player also supports a large variety of video formats and runs on all the platforms like Windows, Linux, Android and Mac OS. The free open source media player is extremely powerful, easy to use and can be easily customized according to user needs than the paid media player.
In spite of all the amazing features, most of the VLC users still find some features missing. VLC does support some basic features like video playback control, automatic subtitles and so on. For instance, the VLC player doesn’t remember the video positions of last video or movie files that were played. In this particular scenario, say if by any chance you closed the video. The VLC player starts playing the video all over from the beginning instead of automatically playing the movie from the video position that was left on closing the file. This is quite annoying when users can’t watch the video at a single shot. Also, VLC does not restart the playback where left off. There are many other features which user find missing. In order to make over this inadequacy, the users can add the additional features and customize options by using VLC extensions and plugins.
VLC extensions are available on the official VLC website.The official website offers a list of verified extensions that can be downloaded for free. Unlike the extensions for Firefox and Chrome that offer easy installation of extension with just a clickety-clack of a computer mouse, installing the VLC extension is not at all an easy task. The VLC media player makes use of files with .lua extension and installing them is quite a tedious job packed with chicanery.
In this article, we provide some tricks on how to install and use the extensions on the VLC media player. But before we begin its worth mentioning that most of the extensions are offered for desktop version while there are only a few for the mobile version of the VLC app. Also, the add-ons need to be installed manually, and users have to enable the installed extensions by manual operations.
How to add Plugins & Extensions on VLC
Open VLC media player.
Go to Tools and click on Plugins and extensions from the drop-down menu.
This will show a list of plugins, interfaces, and extensions.If you find any interesting extension from the list, simply click on the Install button.
In order to install the extension in .lua go to the file path C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\extensions. Copy the lua file to install the extension.
If the lua folder is not found, simply create a folder with the name lua.
Inside the lua folder, create another folder by name “extensions”. Now copy the lua file inside it.
Once the lua file is copied, the extension will be uploaded and installed. Close all the folders.
Run a video in VLC media player to test and enable the extension.
If you don’t find the list to be impressive, go to the official VLC page to check on all the extensions available for VLC here. If you come across any impressive extension then simply hit the Download button.
The extensions are Zip files containing .lua files.
Navigate to the following path C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\Extensions\. Copy the .lua files in the extension folder to install the extension.
If you see a webpage with few codes while downloading the extension, copy the code in a Notepad.
Go to files and click on Save As option. Name the file as VLC Extension.LUA and click on All files under Save as type.
Now click the Save button.
Navigate to the following path – C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\vlc\lua\Extensions\ and copy the .lua files in the extension folder to install the extension.
Run a video to enable the extension.
That’s all there is to it!
Read next: Best VLC Extensions, Addons & Plug-ins.
