VLC Media Player: Free Media Player for Windows

VLC media player for Windows is a highly versatile multimedia player which supports a very wide range of audio and video formats like MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac, FLV, FLAC etc. without any need for additional codecs. It can open media files from your PC, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and also from the network through various streaming protocols. It is not just a media player, but also a media converter. You can even make it work like a server to stream the media on your PC, with advanced features like video on demand, on the fly trans coding etc.

VLC Supported Playback Features:

Input Media: DVD Video, Video CD / VCD, SVCD 2, Audio CD (no DTS-CD), DVB (Satellite,Digital TV, Cable TV), MPEG encoder, Video acquisition, Streaming
protocols (UDP/RTP, TCP/RTP, HTTP/FTP, MMS), Raw Dirac, M2TS

Video Formats/Codecs supported: MPEG-1/2, DIVX (1/2/3), MPEG-4 ASP, DivX 4/5/6, XviD, 3ivX D4, Cinepak, Theora, Dirac / VC-2, MJPEG (A/B), WMV, VC-1,Quicktime, DV (Digital Video), Real video, HD Codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0)

Audio Formats: MPEG, Vorbis, DTS, WMA, FLAC, TrueAudio(TTA), Real Audio, MIDI, Quick Time

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(Works with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7

Customization of User Interface

You can easily customize VLC media player’s user interface with a wide range of skins to suit any mood of yours. You can download the whole pack of available skins from the link below:
Or you can even download skins individually from here.

How to change skins?

The skins folder can be found in the VLC installation directory (usually it is C:Program FilesVLCskins unless and until you have chosen a different path during installation).

1. Place the downloaded skins in this directory (after unzipping them if required).
2. Go to Tools –> Preferences –> Interface Tab.
3. In the Interface Type section, choose skins radio button and then select the skin file that you want using the Browse button.
Once you have selected skin option, from now onwards you can change skins just by right clicking anywhere on the vlc media player (outside the video display) and go to Interface –> Choose Skin.

Make VLC look like Windows Media Player

Install wmp11 skin for getting the windows look and feel for VLC.