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And while you can probably just pull it up in your operating systems default player, theres no reason why you should limit yourself to the boring ol Windows Media Player or Quicktime.

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 a lot these apps can do that your regular apps cannot.

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.

And if you havent, your tech-savvy friends have probably mentioned it.

And if they havent, youre all about to get a crash course in all things VLC.

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There are two huge reasons why youd want to install this on your system: its a regularly updated, open-source app thats free to use and, more importantly, it can handle just about any file you throw at it.

And Lars Vargas only operates on reflexes and endocrine said: For video, its VLC.

Nothing else comes close to customizability and consistency, not to mention it plays pretty much everything.

And, no, I dont think anybody is spying on you: The only correct answer to this is VLC.

Though I have a problem with VLC on Xbox where it keeps blacking out my screen randomly.

Ive wondered if its someone like spying on me blacking me out for watching pirated videos.

Does VLC on Xbox allow people to monitor that Getting the drift As one reader wrote and Ill paraphrase this one if theres a problem playing a video in VLC, thats a good indication that the video has an issue, because VLC plays everything.

Audio. Video. You name it.

Want to convert video or audio It can do that too.

Tweak your viewing experience with all kinds of crazy filters and effects Sure.

The power of this cross-platform app (including Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android) cant be beat.

MPC.

Unfortunately, active development for the app ceased more than a decade ago.

But then, the open-source community lept to its feet and forged onward A forked project, MPC-HC, was born.

And that went well for quite some time, until this project fell by the wayside in mid-2017.

Not to be deterred, yet another variant of Media Player Classic exists, and its being actively developed as of when we wrote this article.

MPC-BE a fork of both MPC and MPC-HCis a strong, lightweight player with a sleek, seekbar preview (just like what youd find on, say, YouTube.) As Lifehacker reader Shuffy writes: I use MPC-HC using madVR as the renderer.

MPC-HC because of its simplicity and wide support of what it can play.

Lifehacker reader DeadDuck123, who admittedly hates VLC, but cant say exactly why, has a great setup for MPC: I use MPC-BE with LAV filter configured as primary handler.

It also has support for directly playing youtube URLs, so Ive configured browser handler to open all youtube links from any apps to open in MPC-BE and I can watch youtube videos without opening different browser on second monitor or use browser add-on that open youtube in pop-up window.

In fact, if all you want to do is watch something, you wont see a user interface at all.

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