If you don't have VLC, the VideoLAN Player, installed on your system, you miss one of the best players . VLC has millions of users around the Globe and supports every type of video found on the computer, as well as audio. It's also mature, stable, cross-platform, and provides a lot of features not found in Windows Media Player.
VLC is my trusted player, simply because I never get a message saying that a codec isn't supported. That includes playing all type of DVD movies . Indeed, the only type of movie that VLC doesn't support is commercial Blu-ray discs because of the copy protection involved. It does, however, fully support the .mkv files.
There are boatloads of controls, tweaks, and effects to be found in VLC. Brightness, contrast, saturation, playback speed, audio lag compensation, a spatializer, EQ, blur, motion blur, color removal, lighting… I could go on. The latest version, 2.0.3, also has the ability to boost volume up to 200% of normal. Make sure you adjust the volume in the preferences dialog to start at normal or your preferred percentage.
VLC supports virtually every audio file type, including the less common APE, Flac, Ogg, etc. natively. And, if you hadn't guessed by the name, you can also play streamed video or music across networks, including the Internet.
If I have any complaint at all about VLC, it's that it will occasionally hang up when playing back a corrupt or incomplete file, forcing the use of task manager to end its process. Other players do more checking up front. However, the fact that VLC will play many incomplete files allows you to preview stuff you're downloading. Even if you prefer another video player, you should have VLC installed on your system.
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