VLC Media Player is
the most popular and robust multi format, free media player available. The open
source media player was publically released in 2001 by non-profit organization
VideoLAN Project. VLC Media Player quickly became very popular thanks to its versatile
multi-format playback capabilities. It was aided by compatibility and codec
issues which rendered competitor media players like QuickTime, Windows and Real
Media Player useless to many popular video and music file formats. The easy,
basic UI and huge array of customization options have enforced VLC Media
Player’s position at the top of the free media players.
Flexibility
VLC plays almost any
video or music file format you can find. At its launch this was a revolution
compared to the default media players most people were using that often crashed
or displayed “codecs missing” error messages when trying to play media files. VLC
can play MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4 and a shed load of other
media file formats. For a full list of compatible file formats please click
here. Not only can VLC Media Player handle loads of different formats, VLC can
also playback partial or incomplete media files so you can preview downloads
before they finish.
Easy to Use
VLC’s UI is definitely
a case of function over beauty. The basic look does however make the player
extremely easy to use. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using
files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause,
stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. A huge
variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance
shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player.
Advanced Options
Don’t let VLC Media
Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools
and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. You can play with
synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets,
overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and
customizable range compression settings. You can even add subtitles to videos
by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder.
Summary
VLC Media Player is
quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player
available. It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10
years now and looks like it may for another 10 years thanks to the constant
development and improvement by VideoLAN Org.
Technical
Title: VLC Media Player 2.2.4
(64-bit)
Filename: vlc-2.2.4-win64.exe
File size: 30.25MB (31,717,016 bytes)
Requirements: Windows XP 64-bit / Vista
64-bit / Windows 7 64-bit / Windows 8 64-bit / Windows 10 / Windows 10 64-bit
Languages: Multiple languages
License: Open Source
Date added: June 6, 2016
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