Gone are the days when you had to download new codecs to play different audio/video formats. It was not only frustrating but also time consuming to download and install new codecs; sometimes even a separate application had to be downloaded to support a specific file format. Not to forget the media player’s skimpy codec support.
VideoLAN – VLC media player is the one-stop solution supporting multiple audio and video formats be it MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, DVD, and a lot of other file formats. VLC is Free, Open Source and a cross-platform media player.
VLC can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. The interface is quite simple but if you dig more into it has a lot of extra features like Zoom, Crop screen size while watching videos. Extended setting like equalizers while playing audio files.
The current available version is 0.9.9 Being OpenSource its new versions with added features and fixes are released frequently. The version 1.0.0 is up for release early next week. The current stats on there homepage show : 4.2 downloads per second!
Interface can be changed using skins available here. Also New skins can be designed using the skin Editor .Its a must have media player. Download here.