How to avoid worrying about codecs ever again
Have you ever wanted to watch a movie, but couldn’t because you didn’t have the proper codecs installed? Yes, that can be very frustrating and it can take the whole fun out of a movie (if you get to watch it in the end), yet it doesn’t have to be that way. The days you had to uninstall your old codecs, in order to try a new - and possibly adequate - codec pack, are long gone. All this thanks to Videolan’s top-of-the-line program VLC Media Player.
What makes this tool more efficient than other media players, you ask me? Well, unlike other players you might be familiar with - for example Windows Media Player or BSplayer - VLC Media Player has first been designed for a Linux operating system. Thusly, it is very much optimized and the codecs are already pre-installed. Since the software has been adapted to run on Windows-based systems, it’s been growing in popularity, mostly due to the fact that it opens all movie formats, without having to periodically download new codecs.
Another great advantage of this player is that it handles partial movie files a lot better than most others. I can’t recall how many times I’ve been frustrated with other players because they couldn’t play a 699 Mb file, due to that last missing 1 Mb. And I bet I’d be close to owning a small fortune if I had a dime for each time Windows Media Player used the wrong codecs to play a file. The result? A movie longer than 1 hour was seen as only lasting for around 2 minutes, after which the image froze, yet the sound kept going. Looking back, I feel like that was the Stone Age of entertainment. So enlighten your future, relieve yourself of stress - and hair loss - and stop worrying about codecs; VLC will do that for you.
