While Windows has its own built in media player, it comes nowhere close to matching the capabilities of VLC, a popular free, open source alternative that is truly in a league of its own. It supports far more video and audio codecs than Windows Media Player could ever dream of, and it has a simple, straightforward user interface that has remained largely unchanged since I first installed VLC over 16 years ago. Simply put, if you want to watch video files on your PC or listen to audio files, VLC...
