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Make VLC do more by installing add-ons

What you need: VLC media player Time required: One hour

VLC media player is one of the best audio and video playback programs on any operating system. It can handle all common video and music formats – including DVDs – works with subtitles, and is free, with no surprise fees. Indeed, unless you’re committed to an alternative, we’d recommend giving it a go: you’ve nothing to lose.

The default version of VLC is packed with features. Its developers could have added more, but this would have consumed time and resources better spent improving the program. Instead, they designed it in such a way that third-party developers could add their own features,

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