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VLC media player is the most stable, flexible and lightweight audio and video player around today, especially when compared to others that will play unusual formats after downloading a codec, or simply refuse to play things. VLC media player also has great hotkey support and if you take the time to learn the shortcuts so it can be controlled without touching your mouse. If you're watching DVDs or video files through it, this is not an issue. For music, it plays more or less any file and features an equalizer and playlist creation. VLC media player isn't as intuitive as iTunes as a media manager, but it's a much more flexible player in terms of file formats. You can even use VLC to convert your files, and on top of all the formats and physical media it will play, many streaming protocols and TV capture cards are supported. VLC Media Player is quite simply the best multimedia application for Windows and Mac.

VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 years thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org. VLC plays almost any video or music file format you can find. At its launch this was a revolution compared to the default media players most people were using that often crashed or displayed “codecs missing” error messages when trying to play media files. VLC can play MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4 and a shed load of other media file formats. For a full list of compatible file formats please click here. Not only can VLC Media Player handle loads of different formats, VLC can also playback partial or incomplete media files so you can preview downloads before they finish.

FEATURES

Input media:
UDP/RTP Unicast
UDP/RTP Multicast
HTTP / FTP
MMS
TCP/RTP Unicast
File
DVD Video
Video CD / VCD
SVCD
Audio CD (no DTS-CD)
DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV)
MPEG encoder
Input formats:
MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)
AVI
ASF / WMV / WMA
MP4 / MOV / 3GP
OGG / OGM / Annodex
Matroska (MKV)
Real
WAV (including DTS)
Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52
Raw DV
FLAC
FLV (Flash)
MXF
Nut
Standard MIDI / SMF
Creative Voice
Video formats:
MPEG-1/2
DIVX (1/2/3)
MPEG-4 ASP, DivX 4/5/6, XviD, 3ivX D4
H.261
H.263 / H.263i
H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC
Cinepak
Theora
Dirac / VC-2
MJPEG (A/B)
WMV 1/2
WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1
Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
DV (Digital Video)
On2 VP3/VP5/VP6
Indeo Video v3 (IV32)
Real Video 1/2
Real Video 3/4
Audio formats:
MPEG Layer 1/2
MP3 - MPEG Layer 3
AAC - MPEG-4 part3
Vorbis
AC3 - A/52 (Dolby Digital)
E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus)
MLP / TrueHD">3
DTS
WMA 1/2
WMA 3
FLAC
ALAC
Speex
Musepack / MPC
ATRAC 3
Wavpack
Mod (.s3m, .it, .mod)
TrueAudio (TTA)
APE (Monkey Audio)
Real Audio 2
Alaw/µlaw
AMR (3GPP)
MIDI 3
LPCM
ADPCM
QCELP
DV Audio
QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)
MACE
Subtitles:
DVD
Text files (MicroDVD,
SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer)
Vobsub
Universal Subtitle Format (USF)
SVCD / CVD
DVB
OGM
CMML
Kate
Tags:
ID3 tags
APEv2
Vorbis comment
Video Filters:
Deinterlace
Cropping
Image wall
Image adjust
Rotate/Mirror
Logo overlay
Magnification
Image distortion
Bluescreen
RSS/Atom feeds
Audio Filters:
Visualization effects
Equalizer