Remember the times when you installed a media player and needed to get a bunch of codec drivers in order to make your movies work? Can you still believe there are still some players who need this?
If you don't, then you're probably a lucky user of VLC Media Player.
This multimedia software has been a favorite of users for a very long time, and it now comes in a portable version.
It supports most audio and video formats, including DVDs and VCDs. In addition, it comes with built-in packs for almost every codec that was ever made.
What sets apart VLC from other media players is the fact that it can play audio and video files even if the files are damaged or incomplete (but it plays them with the respective gaps, of course).
Features include subtitle settings (DVD, text files etc), tags, video filters (adjusting image, cropping, rotating or resizing), audio filters, extensions for fixing damaged files, and many others.
You don't have to be a fierce user to understand them, but if you already have some knowledge in the multimedia field, then you'll really appreciate this software.
In addition, you can convert audio and video extensions to WMV, WMA, MP3, MP4, FLAC, and others.
Media players usually have audio issues, meaning that the sound has a very low volume (especially when it comes to certain DVDs). Besides a standard volume tray, VLC also has a "hidden" option when you scroll your mouse up to further increase volume. The sound may not be of the best quality, but at least you won't have any problems understanding dialogue and hearing special effects.
CPU and memory usage is fair.
Portable VLC Media Player might not be specifically built for music listening purposes, but it's probably the best software out there for movies and clips.

What's New in This Release:
· The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
· Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
· conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
· from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
· title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
· file-caching specifies caching for local files,
· network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
· live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
· disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
· All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
· The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
· By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
· The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
· By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
· The TLS credentia...