So you may be asking what the heck is a VLC player. Is it a (enter your own idea here) player. Yep, you are right, it plays those. It actually plays a lot more than what you most likely guessed. It plays CD’s and DVD, and most video formats found currently available today. It’s dubbed the number one video lan client player, Vlc.
The Vlc player is a little more than a simple media player. It was designed by some students in Paris, and what they were initially going for was a client side player, and a video streamer. The concept is similar to what WinAmp did with audio. After it went public though, developers got their hands on it, and converted it to something even greater. Using the player you can now play broken videos, flip and distort, take snapshots, and even make ASCII art out of the videos. I know most of you will just want this for the DVD player function alone, but know it can do a lot more.
The player is free to download (open source code), has several skins available, and is just a litle over 13mb. Currently there has been a little over 3,000 downloads, still a baby.
Download Page: Vlc Player
If any of you are using it, or have tried it after reading this post, let us know what you think! Post a comment below.
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Really interesting site you have reviewed there, ive needed a media player that can cope with any file type for a while now.
And this vlc media player really does solve every file type problem that i have ever had.
Thanks again..
Most of the users have switched to VLC player rather than using windows media player. VLC player is really amazing and very easy to use and it supports almost every format
i would love to learn. ahh i hate blog comment systems