Most people know VLC as the little orange traffic cone that can play just about any video file you throw at it. But it can ...

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At long last, the Windows 8 Metro environment has a decent media player that can play MKV files: VLC for Windows 8! VLC Media Player Beta for Windows 8 is a complete reimagining of VLC for Microsoft's ...

VLC is a free media player released by the VideoLAN open source project. The application is distributed in Mac, Windows and Linux versions and it supports playback of the MOV, MP4, M4V, 3GP, MPG, TS, ...

Edited: I found the "playlist" option under "View" in VLC which seem like a supremely stupid place. But, I found it. It will play all my music just fine. The .m3u playlists, though, seem to be ...