Weekly Download: VLC Media Player
You have a DVD program. Right? And a program to watch videos. Right? And if that video happens to be a different type of format, you have to open it in a different program. Right?
Wrong. VLC Media Player is an open source, cross-platform media player that has almost every codec you will ever need built in to the program. So you can kiss all those codec packs goodbye. So far, it has played every kind of video I’ve thrown at it. It plays all my DVDs, VCDs, AVIs, MPGs, WMVs, FLVs, MOVs, XVIDs, and DIVXs. It even plays 3GP and 3G2 videos I’ve taken with my mobile phone. It handles streaming media, audio files (though I don’t use it as a music player) and runs faster than Windows Media Player any day of the week. It has a sleek design and isn’t bloated with scores of never-used features.
VLC is a must-have free download for anyone who watches a lot of video on their computer.