VLC Media Player (short for VLC) is a free and open source media player and blended media structure formed by the VideoLAN wander.
VLC is a minimized blended media player, encoder, and streamer supporting various sound and video codecs and archive plans and furthermore DVDs, VCDs, and distinctive spouting traditions.
This infers VLC can play back H.264 or MPEG-4 video and furthermore support FLV or MXF record bunches "out of the compartment" using FFmpeg's libraries.
This part is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including MPlayer and xine-lib-based players, should have the ability to play those associations without the necessity for external codecs.
VLC is one of the free programming and open source DVD players that ignores DVD district coding on RPC-1 firmware drives, making it a zone free player.
VLC media player can demonstrate the playing video as the desktop wallpaper, like Windows DreamScene, by using DirectX (only open on Windows Operating Systems); can do screencasts and record the desktop.