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Play audio and video files with VLC Media Player

by Chris Wiles

23 Apr 2007

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Screengrab_2 There are three major media players available, but each of these players is primarily geared up to playing their own media files. For instance, QuickTime likes the .mpg format, whilst Windows Media Player will play the .wmv formatted video files. These players will often play formats from their rivals, but they'll try and make sure that they are the default media player for your audio and video.

VLC Media Player 0.8.6b is a general purpose audio and video player that is not brand nor format biased, so will work across a number of formats and multiple operating systems. It will play MPG files, DivX, MP3, OGG, stream files, play DVDs and much more. It's simple too, so no over the top user-interface, no commercials and no automatic 'homepage' when you start the player.

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