It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org.
VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. Step 1: Put the DVD disc you want to play into the DVD drive. Before starting the DVD playback, you should check if your Mac computer is connected to an external DVD disc drive. You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder. Mac users could also have a look at how to play DVD with the native free DVD player for Mac, the QuickTime player. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player.ĭon’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc.
The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format.
