I’ve been using Videolan as my primary media player for videos for a while now. ?It even plays flash video that you download.

BENEFITS:

• Unlike the default media player in Windows, it has all the codecs you need and it is free. ?I can’t believe Microsoft really thought we would pay for an untold number of codecs just to watch on videos, which should be in universal players and formats.

CRITIQUE:

• When I go from video to video that has a different default size, why won’t it stick with the same size window I manually created? ?that’s rather frustrating.
• It does not notify you when there is a new update available. ?You have to seek it.