Everything you want to know about VLC Media Player

VLC has always been the best media player on desktop.
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

"I'm using VLC media player since I'm using desktop."
-Admin, Tech Behind Stuff


Keyboard mapping: VLC basic

 

Developer(s)	VideoLAN
Initial release	February 2001
Stable release	Desktop

Features

Simple, fast and powerful media player.
Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
Completely Free, no spyware, no ads and no user tracking.
Can do media conversion and streaming.

Source:
http://www.videolan.org/