VLC Media Player - The Best Free Media Player for Your Computer

Now that you are all familiar with downloading movies from reading my BitTorrent tutorial and my post about Bayw.org, you may have ran into a slight problem once you tried to play certain movie files.  You patiently waited for 4 hours while that HD movie downloaded at a painfully slow download rate; only to be greeted with this friendly little message from Windows Media Player when you were finally able to watch your movie:

Or, you opened your video file and the picture is crystal-clear HD-quality yet, you can't hear a damn thing.  You probably thought you wasted your time with a bogus file and have to download the whole movie all over again.  


Not exactly.


For non-HD video files, you won't have a problem playing them with the stock Windows Media Player.  However, the popular HD movie files-matroska (.mkv) and H.264-need special codecs, or files that help a media player encode or decode a certain file.  If you are hellbent on using Windows Media Player, then by all means download and install this codec pack to be able to watch your .mkv and H.264 HD movies.  If you are sick of Windows Media Player and/or want a media player that plays every file type, without having to worry about downloading codecs and some nice added features, then please go download VLC Media Player right now.


This handy little program is the answer to all your media viewing/listening needs.  For the Mac users of the world, there are download links for you as well.  Even Linux and Android devices have their own versions of VLC Media Player available for download.  


No longer will additional codecs or plugins be required to play media files.  Is the sound too soft on a particular movie?  Simply crank up the volume up to 200% louder with VLC Media Player.  Are there annoying subtitles hard-coded onto the bottom of your movie?  Simply disable subtitles in VLC Media Player to remove them.  Want to fully utilize your surround sound speakers?  VLC Media Player allows you to change the audio track to 5.1 or even 7.1 surround sound when capable.


The list of benefits goes on and on and soon you will forget about any other media player you have used in the past.


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