How to Enable VLC Media Player to Play OBS Files

This article explains how to play OBS files in VCL smoothly without any issue.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg...) and various streaming protocols. However, when play OBS files with VLC, you often run into troubles like file not supported, no sound played or poor quality. So here we'd like to share tips to get VLC to open and play OBS video clips correctly.

Based on our testing and other users' feedback, the output video from OBS especially in .mp4 does not play in VLC. The solution we've worked out yet is to convert OBS recorded clips to VLC most friendly format. Brorsoft Video Converter is just what you need to achieve your goal. With it, you can fast convert OBS to AVI that can be easily played in VLC. If you are Mac users, please turn to the equivalent Mac version Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac to transcode OBS files to VLC on Mac OS X (macOS Sierra, El Capitan included). Once you download the video converter, follow the steps below.

Transcoding OBS files to VLC player friendly video

1. Load OBS recording files

Run the software and then import your OBS files onto the interface by convenient drag-and-drop feature. You can add several videos for converting at one time as this video converter supports batch conversion.



2. Set output format

Click on "Format" bar to select output format. Here you can choose to convert OBS .mp4 to .avi, .mov for playing with VLC.



Tip: By clicking "Settings" icon, you can enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

3. Start converting OBS to VLC format

Click Convert button to start encoding OBS files to VLC media player.

After the conversion, tap the Open icon in the main interface and you can locate the converted files there. Just add the files to your VLC, and you can play the converted TS video on VLC beautifully.

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