Here I am going to tell you all about this amazing free software which in my opinion is the best of its type around.
The vlc media player made by videolan.org is a awesome video player, it can play almost any video file. including MKV and it can play DVD’S with no problem. Also you can stream video to other computers, but to do this you will need a large amount of bandwidth to be able to host/stream the video. One feature I like about this is it uses Direct X to make the video file you are playing, display as your Desktop background. This is a nice feature they have added to the program.
Also there are many other options while you are watching a video to make the experiance better for you the viewer, You can change the Original aspect ratio from the default to any one of these settings; 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, 2.21:1 and 5:4. A nice feature that isn’t normally available on most other lightweight media players is the subtitle track mode. This lets you run a seperate subtitles file on a movie/video that may be in another language.
If the video resolution is to small you can zoom it in upto double its size, another amazing feature is if the res is to big you can crop the video down to size. If you want to take a screenshot of the video vlc has a “snapshot” mode/button to take a screen shot of just the video so there is no need to edit it. then there is the usual “fullscreen” mode and “always on top” mode.
The audio options are very limited, you can add different audio tracks to it like the subtitles, so if the film is in a different language or it had bad sound quality you can import and listen to a separate audio while watching a different video file. Also you can rotate the video in the advanced settings along with changing the colour to black and white or changing the hue if the video has got to much of one colour.
there are many many more settings that makes vlc in my opinion the best video player on the web. and the best thing it its FREE!
Vlc has had over 261,099,601 downloads!
Download link: Windows
Download link:Mac OS X (for 10.5 and 10.6)
