VLC media player is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.  It is one of the most platform independent players around, with versions for Be OS, Syllable, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Morph OS, Solaris, and Zaurus.  It includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, reducing the need for finding plug-ins.

      VLC media player has many features included in its absolutely FREE download and installation.  VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded.  It supports all codecs and all formats supported by FFmpeg as well as those not included in FFmpeg.  VLC is one of the freeware and open source DVD players that ignores DVD region coding, making it a region free player.  The media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, , mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlap.  VLC can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to computer.  By using a  FireWire connection from cable boxes to computer, VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.  Subtitles are available for most videos on SVCD, DVD, DVB, and Mpeg-4 to name a few.  VLC has more image enhancers than most media players.  Filters include the image clone, distortion, image inversion, cropping, blurring, and transformation.  You can use aspect ratio and/or crop the video to fit the ratio you prefer.  There are six options for both cropping and resizing: 1:1, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, 221:100, and 5:4.  Also, VLC has a bookmarking feature that let's you to continue playing video where you left off.  And so many more features that are truly too many to list.

     VLC is absolutely free to download so no problem there.  The easiest way to download VLC is to go to www.download.com, then type "VLC" in the search box.  Now, look on the list for VLC media player; the most current version will be displayed.  Then, click "download now".  Next, you will have to choose where you want to save it.  Then, click "download now" and that's it!  All that is left is for you to install it after it is fully downloaded. Enjoy!

      VLC is arguably the most versatile music and video player yet to date.  It can handle almost any file format with no problem.  It definitely makes video watching a more enjoyable and pleasant experience.  It comes with many, many enhancements and features so you don't have to seperately download them.  It is free and easy to download.  Eliminate all of those video problem that you might have with other media players.  VLC is truly a multimedia player.