VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is one of the best video and audio players of current era. It has become most popular and strong media player due to its prominent features. It’s free and can play a huge range of media formats including audio, video and images too.

VLC Media Player was publically released in 2001. The organization behind this mission is named VideoLAN Project. It is open source and non-profit organization.

VLC player offers versatile multi-format playback with high quality and resolution support. It is supported with codecs that enhance its functionality even more. Windows Media Player and Real Media Player are not useful anymore as they do not support popular media formats. QuickTime is another competitor but VLC Media Player has won the hearts of everyone. It now probably world’s best and most used media player.

Feature Highlights:

Flexibility

VLC Media Player can play almost all popular music and video formats. Before it launched, people used to face codec missing like errors. There were codecs available individually. Users have to find and install them one by one after download. There were some codec packs available but they could not perfectly integrate with existing players. Crashes were happened and it was so annoying. VLC supports MP4, FLV, MPEG, AVI, RMBV, WMV, QuickTime and a huge variety of media formats available worldwide.

Incomplete Files Playback

VLC doesn’t only plays huge range of media files but it can also play partial or incomplete files too. You can also preview downloads while they are in process.

Easy to Use UI

VLC’s user interface is relatively simple and easy to use. It seems to prefer performance over beauty. But this simple look makes it easy to handle.

Drag and Drop

Files can be easily played by drag and drop. Drag the file you want to play from your computer and they will be loaded to player.

Classic Controls and Navigation

Simple and classic navigation and controls are quite handy, easy to use and convincing to novice users. There are buttons to play, pause, stop, edit, skip and control playback speed. Volume can be changed by scrolling mouse or by clicking to desired position. Playback can be customized by using brightness and color change controls.

Customization and Skins

There are number of themes are customizations available for VLC Media Player. It means that simple default look doesn’t let you ignore VLC and switch to some other player on basis of looks and appearance.

Advanced Options

Don’t get bored of VLC Media Player’s simple interface. It’s not that simple as it looks. Discover and you will find there is a smart variety of video and audio playback, tools, tabs and player options. It offers playing  synchronization settings with inclusion of graphic equalizer that is equipped with multiple presets, special effects, overlays, audio spatializer, AtmoLight video effects and customizable series of compressions with settings.

Video Subtitle

In VLC player, video subtitles can be added. You can add SRT file to video’s folder in order to insert video subtitles.

Summary

VLC Media Player can play most media formats and equipped with a huge range of tools and functions. It’s more stable and plays almost all video qualities. It has been ruling for about 10 years as a free media player and chances are that it will continue in future too. There is a hardworking development team behind this open source project that is constantly working to improve this amazing player even more. If you have installed many media players for different tasks, try VLC player. It will surely help you get rid of many tools and rely on it solely.