Here's a great little media player with a bit more inside... VLC is a multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting a variety audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can stream over networks and transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. It's one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Solaris to name just a few.
VLC come with a great many codecs right out of the box and its this ability to simply play the video or the MP3 track which has endeared it to many users, who find its simplicity and ease of use a stark contrast to other media players. VLC can even play unfinished (downloading) and damaged videos. VLC also ignores DVD region coding.
The player also uses libcdio to access .iso files so that the user can play files on a disk image, even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images. VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay.
It can also produce video output as ASCII art. VLC can be installed and run directly from a flash or other external drive. On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party DLLs.
VLC is a fantastic and free piece of software that will happily do the work of your MP3 player, your DVD player and display any .avi video .iso and .mpeg files you may have in store. Its wizard will transcode a variety of video file into other types, useful for streaming videos to PS3 and the like and audio reproduction is not bad either. For more detailed information and to download, have a look at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ At the last count more than 35 million people had downloaded a copy, give it a try!
