Vlc media player was released on 1st of February 2001 by video lan .
After vlc was released in banged the windows media player which was pre installed in the windows OS. The best thing about vlc media player was it was free of cost, it was very small in size due to which it became very easy to download it, it was very easy to install it takes less than 30 seconds to install, and it consists way more features than the windows media player .
The screen aspect ratio could be easily changed by vlc media player which the movie looks good big! It has many more features pre installed in it, yet they aresimple to use .