VLC is arguably the most popular of all media players. Downloaded over 1.3 billion times (yes, that’s “billion” with a “b”), this free and open source player not only has excellent support for nearly every video and audio formats out there, but also let’s you convert from one format to another, and stream (and receive streams) over a network.VLC recently hit version 2.20. The latest iteration of VLC has been a long while in the making for many reasons, not least of which is that the development team wanted this version to work reliably also on the most popular mobile devices, namely Android and iOS.