▷ Is vlc worth it for windows 10? we give you the keys

If you are one of the users who usually watches a lot of multimedia content, you will probably give enough importance to having a good program to play your favorite content. Without a doubt one of the applications that you must have installed is VLC for Windows 10. Today we are going to see and study if this player is definitely worth it.

Index of contents

Surely you have ever heard of this player. What's more, you may have even seen it in the Google store on your Android Smartphone. This software can not only be found available for Windows, but it is also integrated in the platforms of Mac, Linux and Android, almost nothing.

Is VLC for Windows 10 really free?

You may wonder, and rightly so, if this program is really free. If people speak so highly of it and it is so used, how come it is free? And the answer is yes, it is totally free, it does not have a single option blocked when we download it from its official website.

We should not be scared by your choice at the top, this is only to donate a sum of money so that the project improves more and more and to help its creators. But really the software is available completely free of charge to users. This is a great advantage compared to another application, since despite offering the free download option, we will have numerous options that are blocked unless we buy its license.

Platforms available

We already know that it is possible to download VLC for Windows 10 and it also has perfect compatibility with the Microsoft system. But also if we try it and we like it, we can buy it for almost any operating system.

Windows: we will only have to go to the website and download the executable file of the application to enjoy it Linux: it is also available to be able to install it from the repositories of the free operating system using the apt-get command, or the one we want from finished it. iOS and Mac OS X: Another of the VLC-compatible systems is that of the Apple company. So the "exclusive" Mac users will also have multimedia playback software for their Android system : even for our Android mobile phone we have VLC available and it also works really well and allows connection with other devices to play your content on other screens for example with the local network

What is the version of VLC for Windows 10 capable of reproducing?

Well, the list of video formats that we can play is quite large. Practically any video format that we can find online. In addition to being able to play it at normal resolutions, we will also have the possibility of doing it at 2K and 4K.

Video: DVD, Blu-Ray, MKV, MPEG-4, MOV and a long etcetera. Audio: MP3, OGG, AAC, Flac, RealAudio, etc.

In short, practically any format available on the net. The most important thing is that we will not have to install any video codec, since VLC already has its list of internal codecs. Although if we want to further extend its compatibility you can visit our article on the best codecs for Windows 10.

More interesting options

Some of the most interesting options that VLC offers us are the following:

Streaming on the local network

With VLC we can connect to the computers that are part of the local network. This can be done through connected computers or through wireless devices such as mobiles with the computers themselves.

Video and audio effects through filters

VLC also allows us to configure the video and audio output by applying filters to the image and sound to customize it to our liking. We will only have to go to the Tools menu and in Effects and filters we will have these options.

Interface customization

We can also customize the program's interface to add or remove the buttons that we want to be shown.

In the plugins and extensions section we can also customize the player interface. We have a large number of them also free of charge. We will only have to go to " Tools -> Plugins and extensions" and we will have all these options available.

And not only this, but we can also configure our favorite websites for reproduction, install parsers for Internet reproduction, etc.

Subtitles and playback

And of course, we can configure the subtitles that the video track has available. To do this we will have to right click on the reproduction and go to the subtitles section.

Another very interesting possibility is that VLC is capable of playing corrupt files. This will try to repair the video sources to try to play clips that are corrupt or missing parts. This is especially useful when we have recovered deleted files from hard drives or have unfinished downloads.

conclusion

Without a doubt VLC for Windows 10 is an extremely complete application, capable of providing us with all kinds of options to get the most out of our multimedia files. We will have many more options than the native player of Windows 10 and Windows Media brings us. So, it is definitely a more than recommended, mandatory application.

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