VideoLan has all the features for users and programmers, integrated codecs, IP camera, IPTV, image encoding, remote connection and compatible with PC and mobile phone distributions. Easy to install on different system versions. High performance. 4K.

being able to watch a wide variety of videos

VLC has always been my choice for a reliable, no-frills open source media player for over 14+ years now. The main draw to VLC even from the start is its compatibility to a very wide range of media formats. I started using VLC at a time when WMP was still the default player for almost all my peers. It always bugged me that I needed to have a codec installed to it when I try to play some video file or movie that comes in a not-so-common format. VLC didn't have that issue -- it's so good that you can even use it to transcode videos! I want to give a special mention to the ability to boost the volume on videos. It is a killer feature way back when all we had were small netbooks with puny speakers, the volume boost was the only way everyone could hear the videos. It's been 14 years, but I still find a use for VLC, even at work. We use it to distribute instructional vids for clients and new team members for onboarding or product demos. We can download vids from youtube (with no captions), and create an SRT file for it, for our non-english speakers clients and colleagues, and have them insert them on VLC to be incorporated in the video. To more years to come, VLC. Thank you