Whether you are playing ti on Mac, Windows or Linux, you will feel VLC is light and enables you to extensively multitask. You can only play the player and your multi-tasking is literally paralyzed. Its my personal experience that powerful players that offer flexibility are very heavy on system resources. This feature was initially developed to work with iTunes, but now VLC has officially added the support for AirTunes streaming as well.ĥ- Effortlessly use VLC player with other programs This functionalities allows one to play media files on your home stereo speakers. That is to say you would never get the annoying notifications saying it ”your player needs a codec for MP4, FLAC or Raw DV…”! play anything you want!ĪirTunes is functionality for Apple’s Airport Express.

VLC player is an ideal replacement for even ITunes. VLC player can play any common audio formats (OGG, MP3, WAV ,WMA….) and almost all kinds of video file formats, including rare file formats, without installing external codecs. This feature is so helpful if you are an international traveler and require playing DVD outside the country. However VLC player is so powerful that it can play DVD’s encoded for any region. Usually to play dvds from other region you often require illegal DVD region spoofing programs. Put it simply ĭVDs manufactured for one region will not play in players made for a different region. Any commercial DVD player specification requires that a player to be sold in a given place not plays discs encoded for a different region. Any DVD discs may use one code, a combination of codes (Multi-Region), most codes (Region 0) or every code/no codes (Region All). According to Wikipedia there are six different official regions and two informal variations. VLC can be installed or run directly from a flash or other external drive. It is light weight and small in size.Ģ- Portability: Play any DVD on the go, ignoring region codingįor the new bees, I will throw some light on DVD regions. VLC player is small in size, just about 17 Mb and immensely powerful! In this post we will explore the player and list 25+ things you can do with VLC player. VLC is beyond doubts the most popular open source, cross-platform media player and multi-media framework written by VideoLAN projects.

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