Video Players

VLC Media Player

If you are looking for a very portable multimedia player that can be used on many different types of audio as well as video formats such as MPEG-1 and 2, MPEG-4 and DivX, MP3 as well as OGG and even for DVDs and VCDs then you should take a second look at VLC Media Player which is also ideally suited for streaming protocols. The VLC Media Player is also well suited as a server for multicast as well as unicast streams in IPv6 as also iPv4.

The trouble with video files is that they are usually not that easy nor what you would like them to be and so you need a solution for the different file formats. The good news is that the VLC Media Player is an answer to these problems and with the entire different file formats supported you have little to worry about on that account. This is also an open sourced player that has thus made it possible for it to have evolved over the years and whenever fixes are needed or new features need to be added, these have been done and so it has continuously moved forward.

Those who use it on the Windows platform will groan in agony at the sparseness of features in the VLC Media Player that could certainly do with some more features. Something along the lines of the skin mode that is certainly going to lift your gloom though there is another dark cloud in the skin mode which needs to be fixed and that is its predictability of behavior.

When you open files you want a simple operation that does not have any confusion to it and in this too the VLC Media Player could do with some improvements since you could get confused with such a simple operation that you really don’t want to deal with anyway. You should be able to use its many options that are inviting you to use them and if you are wondering what the problem is, and then check out Quick Open File option that will have you scratching your head in consternation.

The trouble is that you just don’t want to do without this player and it thus sneaks its way through onto every computer since it really is an application that is a must have as it does give you the ability to open all types of file especially the video ones which is a most welcome feature. Those who have experienced working with the VLC Media Player have found its ability to play just about anything to be its most endearing feature though it still can do with a little bit of improvement as far as music files are concerned, though for video you don’t want to ask for anything more.