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View Milliseconds in VLC Media Player

View Milliseconds in VLC Media Player Using the Time Extension. Show Milliseconds in Video or Audio Timing in VLC Media Player Using the Time Extension.
Milliseconds might be required to get a specify or specified part of an audio or video file. It is also used while creating subtitles or editing a video or audio.
In this tutorial, we are going to use a VLC extension known as Time v3.2 for VLC Version 3.0 or Time V2.1 for VLC up to Version 2.28.  The extension was created by MEDERI. Time V3.2 or Time V2.1 is a VLC extension that displays running time on the screen in a playing video showing different timing formats. This plugin can show the timing in Nine position on the Screen

Time Extension Description

Time is VLC extension that displays running time on the screen in a playing video.
(Extension script “time_ext.lua” + Interface script “looper_intf.lua”)
Features:
– supported tags: [e], [efps], [d], [r], [t], [o], [n], [_];
– 9 possible positions on the screen;
– elapsed time with milliseconds;
– playback speed rate taken into account for duration time.
To enable and use this plugin, please follow this guide:
1 The Plugin now works on all version of VLC Media Player, including VLC version 3.0.0. The Time V2.1 works for VLC up to version 2.2.8 while the version 3.2 works with VLC 3.00
2) Go the VLC media player add-on page and download the time extension.by Clicking on this Time Extension
Time Extension Webpage
3) Extract the time extension downloaded, open the Time v2.1 (intf), there are three files    Looper_intf.lua, Time v2.0 (intf).png and time_ext.lua while the Time V3.2 contains two folder, “extension folder” and “intf” folder.
4) Go to the location where you installed the VLC media Player usually

Windows OS Location For VLC Extension

C:/Program Files/VideoLAN for windows

Linux Location for VLC Extension For All Users

/usr/lib(64)/vlc/lua/extensions/time_ext.lua , /usr/lib(64)/vlc/lua/intf//time_ext.lua for Linux based Operating system.

Mac OS Location for VLC Extension For All Users

/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/playlist/
(create directories if it doesn’t  exist)
5) Open the VideoLAN folder, Open the VLC folder and then open the Lua folder
Lua Folder
6) In the Lua folder, open the extension folder and paste the time_ext.lua file for Time 2.1 and for Time V3.2, copy time_ext.lua from the extension folder and paste it here.
Extension Folder
7) Then go back to the Lua folder, open the intf folder, paste the “looper_intf.lua” for Time V2.1 and for Time V3.2, copy looper_intf.lua from the intf Folder and paste it here.
intf folder
8) Open the VLC Media Player, to the View on the Menu bar, Select the Time V2.1 or Time V3 (intf), depending on the version, you have installed.
VLC tools
9) Leave the Settings the way it is and Click on Save , VLC media player will request for a restart, You close and reopen VLC media Player.
Time Extension Settings
10) After restarting VLC media player,Load a Video into the VLC media player, your video should show at the top right hand corner, Video time in hr:mm:sec.millisecond, that is for Hour:Minute:Seconds.Milliseconds
VLC timer showing milliseconds

Video: View Milliseconds in VLC Media Player Using Time Extension

View Milliseconds in VLC Media Player

You could also check this tip on How to play YouTube Playlist Using VLC Media Player.
Hope with this, you have been to learn How to show in Milliseconds in Video or Audio Timing  with VLC media player
Please share and like below, also comment below for any problem encountered. Thanks

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Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    September 9, 2016 at 6:21 am

    Test

  2. Anonymous says

    September 9, 2016 at 6:30 am

    Sorry about that. Ive tried 2 times to post but wasnt working right. Muy comment dissapears.
    Can you please upload the extension to dropbox or similar, there's something going on with addons.videolan.org, always asks for username and password and there is no way to register rather. Thanks!

  3. editor says

    September 11, 2016 at 2:44 am

    Thanks friends sorry for been unable to to post comment, You get the extension at https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154032/ download and extract and follow other instruction and thus you will be able to show millisecond in vlc media player.

  4. editor says

    September 11, 2016 at 2:47 am

    I have updated it on the tutorial, just click on the time extension to download the extension to be used to change vlc timing format by showing milliseconds.

  5. Anonymous says

    September 11, 2016 at 7:21 pm

    Thanks pal! Tested and working.
    Now you may wanna check the comments box, in chrome and edge browsers on my PC it never loads. I'm replying from my Android phone using Chrome Dev app.

  6. editor says

    October 25, 2016 at 10:22 am

    Thanks very much, the comment box is now working on chrome and edge. Hope you have been able to change the time settings on VLC Media Player.

  7. Erick says

    April 4, 2017 at 1:49 am

    Thanks!!! I was searching for how to do this in PotPlayer, but this solution works just as well. thanks for the extension!

  8. Tim says

    April 14, 2017 at 1:41 am

    Thanks Erick, Happy you are able to view vlc timer in Milliseconds

  9. ramasamy says

    August 20, 2017 at 2:44 pm

    thanks it is worked

  10. Tim says

    August 24, 2017 at 8:04 pm

    Welcome Sir.

  11. Sungjune says

    October 15, 2017 at 12:22 pm

    How about on a audio player? I really need it….

  12. Tim says

    October 21, 2017 at 1:12 am

    Please check out my tutorial on How to Show Milliseconds in Video or Audio Timing in MPC HC, that will do it https://aboutdevice.com/show-milliseconds-in-video-or-audio-timing-in-mpc-hc/

  13. Govind Gallani says

    April 10, 2018 at 5:13 pm

    Thanks a lot
    It worked for me on v3
    it helped me for the subtitles making

  14. Tim says

    April 10, 2018 at 5:16 pm

    Welcome

  15. Michaela says

    April 26, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    Hi-
    Thanks for this, it definitely worked. For my purposes, I’m hoping to get the timestamp to read the local time. The camera I’m using (GoPro) is synced to my computer’s clock. I’d like it to be able to read the clock from the camera itself and insert the time, in ms, in the video file. Have you found a way to make that happen?
    Thanks!

  16. Tim says

    April 26, 2018 at 10:19 pm

    No, I haven’t found a way to perform this with VLC Media Player, but I assume major video editing software can perform this task.

  17. anonymous says

    April 27, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    i dont know which version i have of vlc player

  18. anonymous says

    April 27, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    and how to see which is

  19. Tim says

    April 28, 2018 at 8:28 am

    Press Shift + F1 on windows Computer or Go to the Menu Bar and Click on Help, then select About

  20. Tim says

    April 28, 2018 at 8:28 am

    Press Shift + F1 on windows Computer or Go to the Menu Bar and Click on Help, then select About

  21. Michaela says

    May 4, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    Thanks!

  22. Ling says

    May 25, 2018 at 11:23 pm

    editor, thanks so much for the post.Really thank you! Great.

  23. Akash says

    April 1, 2019 at 8:11 am

    I have tried every option but still unable to access [H] [M] [S] [ms} in Timer v3.2 in VLC, Can you please help?

  24. Anonymous says

    October 23, 2019 at 11:02 am

    works perfectly. Thanks v much.

  25. Faezeh says

    October 31, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    Thank you so much
    It works perfectly

  26. Tim says

    November 3, 2020 at 2:51 pm

    You are welcome

  27. Clément says

    December 9, 2021 at 6:30 pm

    It is working for video files but not for audio (mp3) files.
    Do you have an extension that works for audio files as well?
    That would be very helpful.
    Thanks

  28. Timothy says

    December 19, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    No, I don’t have, it only works for video files

  29. johanwilliam678 says

    February 25, 2022 at 5:21 pm

    VLC is indeed a wonderful multimedia player application that has a capability to play videos of any format. It can even play odd encrypted files on any device.Frame by Frame VLC visit.

  30. Timothy says

    February 26, 2022 at 8:45 pm

    Thanks for the great input

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