VLC Media Player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a lightweight and the most popular and cross-platform free media player. The player is aided by compatibility and codec issues which make competitor players like, Windows & Real Media Player and QuickTime Player less usable to popular video and music file formats. So, VLC Player can play most of the multimedia files formats as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, also allows you to watch streaming media from remote computers and servers. That's why VLC still represents one of the most popular video players on the world and and plays most codecs with no codec packs needed.

Main Features of VLC Media Player

Flexibility: VLC plays almost any video or music file format you can find.
Easy to Use: VLC’s basic look make the player extremely easy to use.
Video outputs for Windows 8 and 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
Debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
Resamplers for higher quality audio.
Dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
Audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp etc.
CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.
 
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