Simplify Your Media Experience With Vlc Media Player

The VLC Media Player download actually has a pretty long history

, in internet terms. It all started as an academic project in 1996 as a client and server to stream videos across the campus of Ecole Centrale Paris. Today, it is developed by people throughout the world and is coordinated by the non-profit organization VideoLAN. The software was released under a free public license in 2001, and emerged from beta status to Version 1.0.0 in 2009. Since then it has been downloaded millions of times.

The VLC download is free, open-source software. You're not only free to use it, if you know how to program, you can get your hands on the source code so you can modify to suit your own needs. Many software developers worldwide have done this as their contribution to this extremely versatile and useful product. What the VLC Media Player does is play media files. That may not sound like much, but what sets it apart is that it can handle basically any file format you give it to play. Not only that, it will even try to repair corrupt or broken files so that you can play them too.

Non-technically oriented people love the software because it takes a lot of the thinking out of playing media files. You don't have to worry about whether your version of Quicktime or Windows Media Player can handle the format of that music or video file you want to watch. VLC handles them all, and you don't have to do any file conversions beforehand. It lets you concentrate on actually enjoying your audio and video files rather than worrying about whether you can play them, or having to somehow convert them to a file that's compatible with Quicktime or Windows Media Player.

Technically-oriented people love VLC because they can tweak the source code to get it to do what they need if necessary. And even if they don't want or need to fiddle with the source code, they can install the software and customize it for their needs. If you have certain operations that you perform over and over on a video file, for example, you can set up your controls so that those operations are right at your fingertips. For those who don't want to customize the controls, the default settings are easily recognizable the world over.

The VLC universal media player is entering the world of portable media devices too. You can get it for your iPad iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, or later versions of the iPod Touch. The latest version has new features that make it easier to use on Apple devices. If you have a laptop or netbook and want to carry media files on a thumb drive or media card, you can get a portable version of VLC that you can run directly from your external device and that only takes up 20MB of space. And Android fans will have an Android version of the software early in 2011 for their devices. This software really is a universally-useful, free and legal download that can make managing and enjoying your media files much easier.

by: Jason Bacot

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