VLC - THE ALL-IN-ONE APPLICATION
VLC Player, the acronym of Video LAN Client, is one stop solution for all your media streaming problems. You don’t have to go around wasting time, memory, or hard disk space to install an assortment of softwares for every format. VLC Player is versatile enough to support operating systems such as Mac OS, Windows, Linux versions to stream Unicast or Multicast streams as a server. Its power can be imagined by the mere fact that it can very well support audio-video streaming which can be Live from the network, from a DVD or a VCD to run any file format, you name it. No wonder, the tag “it can play anything” goes so well with the VLC Player. It can shove away the requirement of all your other media applications such as itunes, Real Player, Quick Time, Windows Media Player to name a few. Furthermore, adding to the versatility to be able to play any file format and be the ultimate application for them, VLC Player is a light, portable application which can even play broken or damaged media file. It has all its codes built-in hence eliminating the requirement of continuously updating the code.
Can you even imagine what individual softwares to provide every single feature separately would cost? Let’s just say, VLC Player has solved this problem as well, as it comes free of cost. Bet you’d want to read the previous line again, but it’s no hoax. VLC Player is actually free and is capable of web streaming, playing any audio or video format and even the media files which are broken or have missing content. You can let down all you media streaming troubles to the VLC Player and enjoy continuous smooth streaming facility made even more hassle free by the hotkey support and the friendly and simple interface.
Rather than wasting time on 4 or 5 application, having just one VLC Player could get you sorted. An added advantage of the VLC Player is also that it is a region free player which means that it can overlook the DVD region coding on RPC-1 Firmware. Furthermore, it is capable of smoothly playing the stream files which are still being downloaded by torrent or other download website or the ones in the process of being digitalized from HDV camera like the Media Transport stream. Within the multitude of formats it supports, FLV or MXF file formats along with MPEG-4 formats are also included since VLC Player can aptly support libavcodec and libavformat.
With the inclusion of codec’s not under the support of FFMPEG libraries, VLC Player can play all the mentioned formats without the requirement for eternal code. With attributes such as filters to distort, rotate or mirror the video image, you can even add logo overlay split. I the list of amazing features, VLC Players also have facilities to play a video as the desktop wallpaper and even produce video outputs as ASCII art. It can take screenshots, record the desktop and make use of third party dlls to support direct media object framework.
What could you ask more from a Media Player that gives all this and the facility to record live streaming, download youtube videos, and share within our social circle. With no expiry date or trial version offers and quotas, you can enjoy the full version with all the facilities mentioned. If you’re still having second thoughts, all those thoughts will be cleared by the fact that VLC Player can even play videos in AVCHD format which is a highly compressed format currently used in many HD handy camcorders and servers which stream it. It can even be run directly from external drives such as the portable and handy flash drive.
Through Lua scripting language, it can be also be extended. You can have the experience of watching movies without any annoying status bar anywhere on the screen.
Only pure video streaming experience is exactly what the VLC Player offers.