VLC Media Player

About VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is a multifunctional, versatile and free multimedia player which created and published by VideoLAN Organization. It can play any audio and video files in a simple way.

The player is developed in C and C++ languages. So it has a simple and transparent interface equipped with a wide help file. If you don’t like the default appearance, you can always download new skins from their website. You know that it supports a wide range of skins which are all free to download. So users can change the look of VLC according to their preference.

They have released VLC versions for different operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Mac. All edition is released under the GNU General Public License.

It can play all video files with basic control buttons such as play, rewind and pause. But also have extra controls like the graphic equalizer, color adjustment option and many others.

Users may also use VLC both as a streaming server and client. It can be set up to stream video format DVD or a file as a server, while a different client can stream that same media file without having to encode it. It can be used as a web server for high-bandwidth networks that uses IPv4 or IPv6 connection for Unicast or Multistage streams.

It is possible to load all kinds of subtitles and to run multiple audio tracks attached to a movie. VLC also allows you to add subtitles (SRT, SUB, etc.) and change different image aspects such as contrast, color and brightness.

Like other players it has the ability to take screenshots. You can take a screenshot of a specific place with one click while playing a video. Finally saving them as well as converting files into other formats.

Most of the top-notch video players have multilingual support and VLC makes no exception. It supports over 50 languages.

Another interesting characteristic of VLC Media Player is that it incorporates all of the codecs needed to read and play the content. This means that there is no requirement to download supplementary files or make any additional configurations. It’s important to highlight his program is very light and doesn’t require much hardware to function properly in the computer.

Highlights

• Open-source media player
• Runs all video formats, movies, and sound such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV, MKV, H.264, MP3
• Full digital media player without containing any ads or spyware
• HMDI Sound passes through
• Performance improvements
• Use of Windsock for networking instead of Windsock
• 360 video as well as 3D sound
• HD DVD support
• Audio results for iOS, Android as well as OS/2
• Multi-threaded decoding for MPEG-4/ Xvid, H. 264 and also WebM
• Compatible with all versions of Windows

Supported Format

• MPEG-1/2, DivX® (1/2/3/4/5/6), MPEG-4 ASP, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.261, H.263 / H.263i, H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, Cinepak, Theora, Dirac / VC-2, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1, Sorenson 1/3, DV, On2 VP3/VP5/VP6, Indeo Video v3 (IV32), Real Video (1/2/3/4).
• MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3 – MPEG Layer 3, AAC – MPEG-4 part3, Vorbis, AC3 – A/52, E-AC-3, MLP / TrueHD>3, DTS, WMA 1/2, WMA 3, FLAC, ALAC, Speex, Musepack / MPC, ATRAC 3, Wavpack, Mod, TrueAudio, APE, Real Audio, Alaw/µlaw, AMR (3GPP), MIDI, LPCM, ADPCM, QCELP, DV Audio, QDM2/QDMC, MACE.
• DVD, Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Closed captions, Vobsub, Universal Subtitle Format (USF), SVCD / CVD, DVB, OGM, CMML, Kate.
  ID3 tags, APEv2, Vorbis comment.
• UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, TCP/RTP Unicast, DCCP/RTP Unicast, File, DVD Video, Video CD / VCD, SVCD, Audio CD (no DTS-CD), DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV), MPEG encoder, Video acquisition.
• MPEG (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AVI, ASF / WMV / WMA, MP4 / MOV / 3GP, OGG / OGM / Annodex, Matroska (MKV), Real, WAV (including DTS), Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52, Raw DV, FLAC, FLV (Flash), MXF, Nut, Standard MIDI / SMF, Creative™ Voice.

How to Download VLC Player?

From this site you can download the software according to your operating system. If your operating system is Windows, then click on the download Windows button such as 64-bit Download or 32-bit Download. Clicking on the button will automatically take you to the second page and click on Start Download; Finally, VLC media player latest version will be downloaded directly from the publisher server. After a while your vlc.exe file is downloaded.

How to Install VLC Player?

1. Click on this executable file which you downloaded now.
2. Here you will see User Account Control window. Just click on Yes.
3. It provides a windrow which asked your language and selected your language. Click on Next.
4. There was license terms and conditions, you can read it and click Next.
5. There were many tools which will be installed on your Windows operating system. Just click on Next.
6. It provides a location where you can install it. Just click on Install.

Now the installing process is start. After a while the processing is completed. Now you can use VLC media player on your computer.