Do you have trouble playing DVDs on your computer? Are you frustrated? Ready to pull your hair out? Your problems are hereby solved. Welcome to VLC.
VLC comes from VideoLAN, a project creating free software for video.
VLC kicks all other media players’ collective butts, because, for one, it’s cross-platform. It doesn’t matter whether you’re running Windows, Mac OS, Linux – it’ll work on all platforms. So all you non-Windows people out there can thank me for this post.
Additionally, this player stands head and shoulders above the competition because it’s not proprietary. It plays almost all file types without discrimination. You don’t have to install extra codecs to get it to work. It just works.
My mom had Windows re-installed on her computer by someone (we won’t say who). They didn’t install the proper decoders for the computer to play video. So, I started looking around for a free program that plays DVDs. Well, if you’ve ever done a similar search, you may have ended up settling on something like Cyberlink or some other commercial piece of software. My search ended up being quite frustrating, because most free programs simply don’t play DVDs. We tried different solutions, but in the end, every solution required us to buy something, which I simply refused to do.
Then, I stumbled upon VLC. I installed it, slid the DVD in, pushed “play,” and voila! the DVD started playing. Since then, I haven’t found a DVD that VLC (sorry about all the acronyms) won’t play, regardless of region. It has full menu support, top-notch image quality, and is very simple to use.
So, do you really need one of those commercial products to play DVDs on your computer? Absolutely not. And VLC doesn’t just play DVDs. It plays just about every audio and video format out there.
VLC really delivers. Give it a shot.