VLC Media Player

I use VLC Media Player for viewing all of my films and listening to all of my music on my PC. It really does have a wealth of functionality. The main benefit is that it's free and costs nothing. There's no advertising involved and it's available on a host of other platforms such as Mac and Linux so with this in mind you don't have to be tied to a Windows operating system to use it. It is easy to install and is done just by clicking a few buttons. The size of the program isn't large either so it takes up very little hard disk space and very little memory in order to perform its functions. Also, it regularly updates itself. When a new ...  Read the complete review

Forget all the other media players this is the only one you will need and it's free! Unlike the other media players like quicktime, VLC plays everything. When you want to watch films or listen to music sometimes Quicktime doesn't support the format this will. All you need to do is download it from their website and it is ready to use. This is available for both PCs and Macs so you have no reason not to get one. It plays media files in the same way that any other player does but it just plays so much more. You no longer need to worry that something won't play or get annoyed if you've just downloaded a film and you can't watch it. VLC is the solution to all your problems. ...  Read the complete review

VLC is possibly the ultimate piece of software for anyone who wants to listen to/watch anything on their computer. It is open source, meaning that anyone is capable of contributing to its development, and it is 100% free. Available on all major operating systems, there really is no excuse not to give it a go! One of the most obvious features of VLC is it's playback functionality, so far it has been capable of playing back virtually everything that I've thrown at it, even partially completed downloads which most other software throws up errors on. In addition to support with almost endless amounts of codec support, it has no end of options you can mess ...  Read the complete review

VLC Media Player is one of the most fully comprehensive media players available in general computing. Available for Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and various Linux operating systems, it offers a wide system of audio and video playback through virtually all of the major file types and reduces the need to download various "codec" packages to enable playback of certain compressions and extensions. The wide variety of playback extensions is impressive. At the time of writing this, the player supports over 50 various audio and video file types including the more popular .WMV, .MOV (Quicktime), .RV (Real Player) and .FLV (Flash). There is also support for ...  Read the complete review

.avi, .mkv, .wmv ... VLC media player has managed to handle everything I have thrown at it. A wonderfully built, low power consumption program, VLC does everything that WMP and Quicktime wouldn't do for me - and all for free! The vast range of media types out there at the moment has made a niche for such all in one players, and VLC has managed to fit this nicely. There also some other features that are worth a mention - VLC provides its own streaming channel service, allowing one to listen and watch free to air tv and radio channels. Streaming from VLC is also very easy, and makes watching films on another computer o even TV, whilst playing the DVD ...  Read the complete review