A real Swiss multimedia knife on PC, the VLC Media Player player is essential to read audio or video files, watch TV or even download YouTube videos. Here are 10 tips to discover or deepen some of its most practical functions.
This is the number one alternative to the Windows Media player to read audio or video files (CD, DVD, DIVX, MP4, etc.) on a PC. The VLC Media Player software, which is published by an association called Videolan, has many followers. It must be said that it has a really practical particularity: the fact that it already integrates the codecs necessary to decryption of almost all audio and video formats on the market. No need to download something more, you install it and it is functional with any multimedia file, or almost. And in addition it is free!
If you don’t know it, we strongly advise you to try it. Especially since VLC Media Player does not just read a disk or file from your hard drive. It can also serve as a reader for any network flow, allow you to watch television on your computer or even record a video of a sharing site like YouTube. So many “additional functions” that you will be able to discover in this series of tips, which will allow you to better use this software and do more with it. And if that is not enough for you, you will also learn to install extensions to provide it with new functions, or simply to modify its interface. VLC will then become your companion for all multimedia activities on your computer.