VLC Media Player
- VLC Media Player is a free media player that lets you play audio and video content on computers, laptops, mobile phones, and tablets.
- The freeware lets you launch different media types: devices, discs, files, and streams. The versatile software works with Audio CDs, DVDs, streaming protocols, and VCDs.
- VLC has many built-in codecs that permit you quickly open different file formats: MP3, MKV, etc.
What is VLC Media Player?
- VLC Media Player is one of the most popular media players in the world because the system can play tons of file formats in a clean interface that’s crammed with features.
- It offers multiple recording options. It can work as a screen recorder to allow you to record your entire desktop screen. you’ll also use it as a webcam recorder to record videos on your camera.
Features
- 8K support (hardware decoding is on by default)
- Chromecast/Google Cast support
- HDR and 10-bit video
- HMDI Audio passthrough
- Network browsing for NAS systems
- 360 video and 3D audio
- Modifying subtitle size live
- Drag and drop support
- HD DVD support
- Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing blending in GPU.
- Shader support within the OpenGL output, for conversion, including 10bits.
- Video outputs for Windows 10 64 bit, 8 and 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
- Debanding, grain, denoising, and anti-flickering filters.
- Deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.
- Resamplers for higher quality audio.
- Dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
- Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
- Audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.
- Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid, and WebM.
- Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image, and a few other codecs.
- Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp, etc.
- Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
- CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.