Customize Video Size Suitable for Android Phones with VLC

Understanding Instructions requires more than a headline. The overview below breaks down the key facts, changes, and user impact.

Instructions Overview

When mentioning VLC, everyone knows about multi-function software, watching movies, listening to music, copying DVDs, taking screenshots of videos, converting formats.

Main control screen of VLC

Here, you can assign more video files if you want, click convert / save button to change the size or format of the file:

At the bottom of the control panel, select the convert function to adjust the size of the video:

Select any folder, set the desired name and video format in Settings:

Convert feature of VLC supports many popular video formats like Ogg, mp4, divx.

Click the Profile button and change the options here to suit your Android phone:

Name the newly created Profile:

Check again the setting items in the Settings section, namely the audio and video related specifications to match the media encode mechanism in the phone.

OGG format usually has a smaller screen size than other files

If you only need to listen to music, please uncheck the Video box in the Video codec section and select the Audio section in the Audio codec tab:

Corresponding to the relevant specifications, if the amount of Bitrate and Frame Rate is reduced, the video or audio quality will be very low:

After completing this setup process, you click Save to save the changes of the newly created Profile, click Start to start the format conversion:

Shortly thereafter, VLC will switch to streaming mode, depending on the duration of the video that the process will take place quickly or slowly:

When finished, simply connect your phone to the computer via a USB cable and copy the video file. Good luck!