VLC Media Player Reviews

We have a lot to thank the open source software community for, including Linux, the GIMP and now VLC Media Player. VideoLAN started as a student project at the École Centrale Paris, with the goal of developing a general-purpose media player that could handle audio, video and streamed content. The main result of this project so far is ...  Read the complete review

VLC media player is a free multimedia player that will play almost any video or audio files. It is a small file, basic programme with a ton of features. OK, over the years I have needed to play tons of different files, whether they be different extensions, or have subtitles, two audio tracks, whatever! When it comes to this sort of ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

VLC Media Player is a free software media player which acts as a multimedia player, encoder and streamer. I use VLC to watch all the videos I watch on my computer which are mainly AVI format. VLC will play almost anything and so far I have not tried to load something up on it which wont play. From my ecxperience of ...  Read the complete review

VLC is a media player which was first released in 2001. It handles all video formats and all audio formats though I have had trouble playing some wma and wmv files. The best part of vlc is is its free and regularly updated.Because there is no set date for release updates what I do is I am subscribed to web site called ...  Read the complete review

VLC Media Player has been dubbed "the Swiss Army Knife of media technology"; and quite rightly so. It is the perfect software for playing virtually any media formats known to mankind. What's more, VLC is also capable of decoding Mac media for Windows and vice-versa. So for example, you can play .mov files in Windows, and .wma files on ...  Read the complete review

VLC (VideoLan Client) is an excellent cross platform media player which works on almost all available OS'. It has a raft of media features allowing playback of tons of different media types, playback live network video streams, as well as being able to (re-)broadcast (and transcode) video/audio to a network. The first advantage of VLC ...  Read the complete review

The VLC media player was mentioned in a conversation between me and a friend about capturing snapshots of video. This led me to download it, and I have never looked back! While being extremely lightweight (Compared to Windows Media Player it is almost comparing a mouse and an elephant, and you should know which is which), it produces brilliant ...  Read the complete review

Most people I imagine will never find a use for the VLC media player. For those who want to listen to their mp3 collection, watch movie trailers and the like, or even those bad 'uns who download all kinds of media - there is really little point in installing yet another media player. For most, the general media players will work best. ...  Read the complete review