Vlc Media-player Reviews 78

Not really a company review, but rather their player.
The player itself seems good in playing most formats, but the slow feature really doesn't work, especially at very slow speeds. It takes forever to start, freezes the frame and sometimes crashes the app. I ratehr use Pot Player instead for this function.

Hey VLC its 2025, not 2005.
This is by far the most clunky excuse for a player.
It over complicates everything. It does that because the think power users will appreciate the detail.
But put things where no one would find.
Used them since they started. And seems Devs fell asleep and said its good enough. Its over rates and over complicated and does nothing other players do simply.

It's ridiculous.

We launch an mp3 file, once the file plays, the Play button turns grey, and it is impossible to replay the same audio file without having to close the application and restart it again.

It's a pathetic version that was forgotten and needs to be scrapped, and they will have to roll up their sleeves or find the weak link in the team.

Until there is a Stable and properly usable version, this video player no longer exists for me.

Worst user interface of any program I've used in the past 20 years. (It doesn't appear to have changed in 20 years, either--so the creator(s) clearly don't think it needs improvement.) Violates all kinds of modern user interface norms. Reminds me of old UNIX programs where a crude UI was built on top of a command-line program. Used it lately to convert a mp4 to mp3--super-simple--and it hung up, with message: "The output file already exists. If recording continues, the file will be overridden and its content will be lost." It gave me two buttons: "Overwrite" and "Keep existing file"--both buttons do nothing but cause the same dialogue to reappear, in an endless loop. I asked ChatGPT about it, and its response: "You just uncovered one of VLC’s oldest, worst bugs: The 'output file exists' endless loop bug. (Reported as far back as 2015. They still haven’t fixed it.)" Even if I made some configuration error, *no* competent program puts you in a position where your only option is killing the program. If I have to force your program down after 5 minutes of using it, you flunk CS 101, and get one star.

I love your video player, for the most part, but with a few caveats: I'm using v18, & it works beautifully; v19, however, refuses to play certain .mp4 files without pixelating them, and so does v20, although the .mp4 files v20 pixelates are not the same ones that v19 does.
It would also be nice if I could sound-equalize all the videos on a playlist, because some are normal at 50%, while some others are normal at 150%. I've tried using the feature on the program that says it does this, but it doesn't actually do it.
Thank you.

I'm so tired of updates putting a useless shortcut on my desktop. I ALREADY HAVE A DUCKING SHORTCUT, STOP DUCKING ADDING NEW ONES

I installed VLC as I was going overseas 2 places regular internet would b an issue. Within 24 hrs I had formatted devices 2 get rid of it as I'd rather spend my free time nawing my own leg off. It's basically a virus, it takes over your device & makes itself difficult 2 remove. DON'T install it. U hav been warned....

I've used VLC on and off for years, they're not the most user friendly app for an unsavvy OAP like me but they're my go to when everything else fails. Down loading from YouTube and getting audio and a black screen ? VLC never fails, more complicated & takes longer but doesn't let you down.

I just bought a new Samsung phone, cloned my files from the last one only to find Samsung doesn't support wma (music) files anymore downloaded VLC, back to normal, goodbye Samsung music app (good phone otherwise).

VLC Media Player is awesome!
Both mobile and PC versions.
PC version lets you to bump the volume up to 200%, that's one great thing.
The design is nice, it's free, no ads, open-source.
What's not to like?

I like it very much because it solved my all problems. Now i can watch videos in many formats very easy.

Ive heard about people having all kinds of issues with this player i just use it with my Xbox to play my flac files it works fine. Way better display and audio quality than the Microsoft player.

How on earth can you realease an update which causes your application to crash thereafter. DON'T YOU DO ANY TESTING BEFORE RELEASING AN UPDATE??????????????????????????????????????

Most of the time I can't get this to work, it doesn't find my dvds or seem to have any menu options that are intuitive or able to source them.
I've just downloaded 5K player which is amazing and just what I need!

Plays all music formats transferred from my laptop which previous music player failed to. Sound is excellent on my Android phone.

For years VLC has been my go-to program and I would give it 5 stars. However, the latest downloaded developer version SUCKS. It does not even give a time stamp where you are, nor a line that you can go to other places on it. It has no open-disc button. It just sucks beyond belief. WHYYY did they change such a lovely and highly useful program. UGH. It is so sad. I hope they change it back or give us 2 versions.

It's been my go-to player for a long time and seems to read files other players don't. That being said, it constantly has updates (weekly?), and when you update you lose the place where you last stopped watching.

Very Glitchy Media Player. When I rewind by a few seconds in a video, it glitches and displays parts of footage from the point where I pressed the rewind button and footage from the part of the video I rewinded to. Basically, it mushes parts of video together when I try to rewind. Before, it didn't do this, but recently when I finally updated it, that's when it started happening. 0 stars, this media player is garbage. Would not recommend to anyone if they intend to ever replay parts of a video they downloaded.

Years ago it was the best player.
Now, virtually all the advertised features don't work at all. It plays some files (not all), but cannot convert, cannot download from Youtube no mater what you do.
It is a pathetic garbage!

YesI know I can slice videos but it's quite the trouble and the process is tiresome. It would be nice to have a simple built-in video slicing tool.

It doesn't open x265 videos at all! The UI freezes and it's either the audio playing or vice versa.