As just a normal user, I think VLC is superb, my personal opinions on why VLC Player is superb...
Its great, lightweight, versatile, convenient and always seems to work! I have found it great for playing damaged or corrupt videos where other media players will not do the job. I find its hotkeys easy and useful. I find its versatility in playing so many different formats outstanding, I have been on many platforms, different windows & linux distros and had many media players, codecs and applications fail me with media, but oh no, not VLC, always works.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Im supporting a school network, 300 systems on a windows network, helping a teacher to get a DVD working for a presentation for 30 students, two different media players fail me that are installed on the system. The system is old and slow and I dont want to restart to install new packages or do any hefty that would tie up the system for a further 10mins, so I right click on the file, open-with and then I find the VLC player over the network on my remote system, select it and it worked superb, not even installing it but executing the VLC application over the network remotely using the app and playing the DVD superbly where others failed, how versatile is that!
Great work all, Thank You.
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