VLC media player (initially known as VideoLAN Client) is a replacement for media players like Microsoft Media Player. Granted, Media Player is good and is also free. Functionality wise there may be no reason to replace it. But philosophy wise, I have three.
One, as an open source supporter and believer, I want to use as many open source applications as possible for all my desktop functions.
Two, I dislike the way applications like Media Player and Real Player intrude and make assumptions about my usage preference. No movie trailers or latest news please. I just want to play my media files. No prompting to update or to download media information, I can look for it if needed, thank you.
Three, dispite the pages of privacy policies (that nobody reads), I am not comforted. There isn’t any clue as to what information are being captured and sent in the background.
As an open source application, VLC does not need to market or promote anything. It sticks to its job and does it well.
After trying many open source/freeware/shareware media players, VLC stands out as not been too technically oriented.
There is no need to understand the need for different codec, know where to find them, why they conflicts and to install them. Everything just works after install.
VLC media player has so many features that I hardly scrape the surface as a light user of audio and visual media. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. VLC packs enough functionalities to satisfy even the demanding users. As for me, I am all too happy that it serves all my needs well.
What I like about VLC
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Supports a large number of format without the need to download codec everytime.
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Simple to use compared to other more technical open source players.
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One player to play them all!
Chinese support
Chinese user interface is included in the installation and can be configured in the Preference. After changing, a restarting VLC is necessary to change the language.
As you can see, not all the text are translated.
Where to get it?
- VLC Media Player is at http://www.videolan.org/
- Current version: 0.8.5
- Function: Media Player
Popularity: 12%
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