VLC Media Player – Play Videos without Codecs
VLC Player – The Codec-less Media Player
A friend of mine was asking me about codecs the other day. He told me that he had spent hours downloading a video only to find out that it wouldn’t play on his computer. He told me that every time he tried to load the video he would get a message about the player trying to acquire the correct codecs.
He said that each time it would fail, and finally he gave up on trying to play the video altogether and deleted it from his hard drive. He seemed really frustrated about this because of the time and energy he spent trying to get the video to play only to end up deleting the file.
That was when I told him about VLC Media Player.
VLC player is a media player that does not require video codecs in order to play movies. In fact, VLC can play almost anything you throw at it without any trouble. This is great to know because how many times have you been sitting there trying to get a video to play, only to realize it was encoded with some strange video codec you had never heard of.
VLC will also play files that are corrupted or broken, with the parts of the video you actually have. This can be great for testing video clips, trying to recover a movie, or for purely experimental purposes.
VLC player is a free program that can be downloaded from Videolan.org. It is a very small download of less than 10 mbs and is used by millions of people around the world.
If you are new to VLC player I would highly recommend checking it out. Or if you are just looking for a new media player or are running into codec issues this is definitely the way to go.
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