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VLC Media Player

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A fully customizable, powerful and practical media player that lets you enjoy nearly all available media file formats or your favorite radio station. #VideoLAN Client  #Video player  #Movie player  #Player  #VideoLAN  #Video  

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In order to be able to fully enjoy a movie or song, appropriate applications need to be used. Media files are found under a large variety of formats, not supported by all available players. Among the existing industry giants which have built a name and reputation over the years, there is VLC media player, a simple looking tool with a lot of power under the hood.

On the visual side, the application stays clean, with no shiny buttons or elements to enhance the interface. However, accessing the 'Options' menu gives you the possibility to customize the layout or even completely change the skin with the help of downloadable content.

Regardless of your style choice, it is capable of playing both video and audio files. You can bring up the playlist editor, which can either be docked or left floating around the desktop. Files can be managed from here, with the possibility to simply have desired items dragged over an indicated area.

You can save configurations to play later on, having them combined, music and movies. You are able to select one of the available radio stations provided, and it is most likely to even stumble across the one you have your frequency tuned to.

Giving VLC media player a try takes some of your time, having you snoop through every corner for hidden treasures. Each button you press brings up new possibilities. A 12-band equalizer is put at your disposal so that you can carefully adjust frequency sliders to fine-tune sound. You can also make use of one of the available presets, but with no option to save custom configurations.

The case also applies to motion pictures, with adjustments sliders for a decent amount of categories, such as Crop, Colors, Geometry, AtmoLight, and several more. You can easily switch to fullscreen for a clearer view, and there are even a few audio visualization options.

To sum it up, VLC media player is an application that comes equipped with all you need to fully enjoy media files. A lot can be said about the true power hidden under the simple interface, but the magic is best discovered personally. It is, and represents the true meaning of a media player.

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VLC Media Player is part of these download collections: FLV Player, M3U Player, Play MP4, Play AMV

What's new in VLC Media Player 3.0.20:

  • Video Output:
  • Fix green line in fullscreen in D3D11 video output
  • Fix crash with some AMD drivers old versions
  • Fix events propagation issue when double-clicking with mouse wheel
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VLC Media Player 3.0.20

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  portable version
Portable VLC Media Player
  runs on:
Windows 11
Windows 10 32/64 bit
Windows 8 32/64 bit
Windows 7 32/64 bit
  file size:
40.9 MB
  filename:
vlc-3.0.20-win32.exe
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VLC Media Player - VLC media player will provide users with a multi-platform multimedia player that can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG, and DivX filesVLC Media Player - The Media menu will help you quickly and easily open files, folders, discs, network streams or capture devicesVLC Media Player - Users will be able to set the speed of the loaded video file as well as jump to a specific time within the Playback menuVLC Media Player - Video options can be tweaked from the dedicated menu which holds subtitle and video track settings, several view modes, zoom, aspect ration, and snapshotVLC Media Player - screenshot #5VLC Media Player - The tools menu is the way to access effects and filters, track synchronization, media information, codec information, messages, customization, and moreVLC Media Player - An 8-band equalizer is sure to enhance audio output, with various presets to choose fromVLC Media Player - Basic image editing is included with options to adjust colors, sharpen, crop, adjust geometry, and a set of advanced functionsVLC Media Player - Subtitles and on-screen display elements can be tweaked with a variety of font customization options and positioningVLC Media Player - The general preferences menu is intuitively structured to provide general access to management areas, and enough space to comfortably view and edit optionsVLC Media Player - Audio options can be used to work on output volume levels, mode, surround sound, and visualizationVLC Media Player - Video layer can be disabled completely, or tweaked to allow decorations, accelerated video output, DirectX device, and snapshotsVLC Media Player - screenshot #13VLC Media Player - You can use GPU accelerated decoding for more quality, optical drive management, and network connectivityVLC Media Player - The most comfort can be squeezed by assigning hotkey commands to all functions you can perform such as playback and subtitle adjustment
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