

And that went well for quite some time, until this project fell by the wayside in mid-2017. But then, the open-source community lept to its feet and forged onward! A forked project, MPC-HC, was born. Unfortunately, active development for the app ceased more than a decade ago. MPC-BE” loading=”lazy” > Screenshot: MPC-BEĪ long, long time ago, there used to be a great open-source media player called Media Player Classic. Does VLC on Xbox allow people to monitor that?”

I’ve wondered if it’s someone like spying on me blacking me out for watching pirated videos. Though I have a problem with VLC on Xbox where it keeps blacking out my screen randomly. And, no, I don’t think anybody is spying on you:

WingcommanderIV, who gets bonus points for that Kinja name, echoed similar thoughts. Nothing else comes close to customizability and consistency, not to mention it plays pretty much everything.”

Like, not even once.”Īnd Lars Vargas only operates on reflexes and endocrine said: There are two huge reasons why you’d want to install this on your system: it’s a regularly updated, open-source app that’s free to use and, more importantly, it can handle just about any file you throw at it. And if they haven’t, you’re all about to get a crash course in all things VLC. And if you haven’t, your tech-savvy friends have probably mentioned it. This one’s a no-brainer, right? If you’ve been around a computer for the last decade or so, you’ve probably heard of VLC. There are also a lot of media-player apps, so we recently reached out to get your thoughts on the media player apps you love using. There are a lot these apps can do that your regular apps cannot. They might be easier to use or prettier to look at they could be more compatible with all kinds of obscure codecs you want to play and they might even offer killer features, such as a built-in video converter or even bookmarks for jumping around to your favourite parts in a movie. There are plenty of awesome third-party media players that offer a host of benefits you can’t get in your operating system’s default app. And while you can probably just pull it up in your operating system’s default player, there’s no reason why you should limit yourself to the boring ol’ Windows Media Player or Quicktime. Everyone has something on their PC worth watching ” that funny video you just shot on holidays, some movie you downloaded that you probably shouldn’t have, a highlight from your favourite concert, et cetera.
