VLC Media Player for windows 7 or XP

VLC Media Player for windows 7 or XP

It is ultimate choice for a free media player in Windows 7. The ease of installation, geniality with resources and support for playback of large media formats make it an awesome media player. The ability to play damaged, corrupted or incomplete media files is awesome. The capabilities to stream over network and to convert media files into different formats are some of its best features.



It also snubs DVD region codes which makes it a global media player. The player has also a collection of basic filters to modify video’s display. A lot of skins are available to change the default look. VLC media player natively supports 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7.

These free media players can turn your media experience very pleasant in Windows 7. Do tell us about your experience with any of these media players in Windows 7 by leaving a comment.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player that supports various audio and video formats (MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Input media

· UDP/RTP Unicast
· UDP/RTP Multicast
· HTTP / FTP
· MMS
· File
· DVD 1
· VCD
· SVCD 2
· Audio CD (without DTS)
· DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV)
· MPEG encoder 3
· Video acquisition Direct Show

Input formats

· MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)
· ID3 tags
· AVI
· ASF / WMV / WMA
· MP4 / MOV / 3GP

· OGG / OGM / Annodex
· Matroska (MKV)
· Real
· WAV (incuding DTS)
· Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52
· Raw DV
· FLAC
· FLV (Flash)



Video

Decoders

· MPEG-1/2
· DIVX (1/2/3)
· MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4
· H.264
· Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
· DV
· Cinepak
· Theora (alpha 3)
· H.263 / H.263i
· MJPEG (A/B)
· WMV 1/2
· WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 4, 5
· Indeo Video v3 (IV32)



Subtitles

· DVD 6
· SVCD / CVD
· DVB
· OGM
· Matroska
· Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer)
· Vobsub



Filters

· Deinterlace
· Cropping
· Image wall
· Image adjust
· Rotate/Mirror
· Logo overlay
· Magnification
· Image distortion
· Bluescreen
· RSS/Atom feeds



Outputs

· Native DirectX, GDI
· SDL
· ASCII Art



Audio



Decoders

· MPEG Layer 1/2
· MP3
· AC3 – A/52
· DTS
· LPCM
· AAC
· Vorbis
· WMA 1/2
· WMA 3 7
· ADPCM
· DV Audio
· FLAC
· QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)
· MACE
· Real Audio 8
· Speex



Filters

· Visualization effects
· Equalizer



Outputs

· Native DirectX WaveOut
· S/PDIF DirectX WaveOut
· Multi-channel DirectX WaveOut
· SDL



Streaming



Interfaces and control

· Default WxWidgets
· Qt 4
· Skins
· Web
· Telnet
· Command line

Miscellaneous

· SAP/SDP announces
· Bonjour protocol
· Mozilla/Firefox plugin
· ActiveX plugin
· SVCD Menus
· Localization
· CD-Text 10
· CDDB CD info 11
· IPv6
· IGMPv3 Win XP
· CPU acceleration 13

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