One Video Player to Rule Them All - VLC

It dawned on me that I have never talked about my favorite video player, VLC. One of my ideas for this blog was to share with you, some of the programs I use. VLC has to be one of the programs that gets the most use, on my computer.

The VLC Media Player is the only media player you will ever need. When it comes to video formats, it will play; mpeg, divx / xvid, quicktime, h.264 and windows media up to wmv version 9. It will also play earlier versions of real media. It also plays most audio formats including, mp2, mp3, flac, wave, wma, aac, ac3, alc, dts and dv audio.

You can also listen to and watch audio & video streams, with
the added bonus of capturing them. Is there an internet radio station that plays something you would like to capture? With vlc you can. You can also create your own audio and video streams with it.

There's tons of advanced audio and video pre and post processing options. As well as the ability to use subtitle files with your movies, if they have them. One of the audio features it has, I just love, and haven't seen anyone else try is; you can turn the volume up to %400! If you have built in speakers on your monitor, you may have noticed that sometimes, they just won't go loud enough. Now you can crank up the volume beyond %100, up to %400, and hear what you have been missing.

The programers that make VLC didn't leave anyone out. There are Windows, Mac, BeOS, and various BSD & Linux flavors, available for download.

If you have't tried vlc media player, you may want to. I highly recomend it and would consider it, one of my top 10 must have programs.