You have the usual buttons for pause/resume playback, stop playback, previous and next media in the playlist, open playlist, full screen toggle, extended settings for audio-video-subtitles effects and synchronization, repeat and shuffle. The seek bar is bounded at both of its ends by granular speed control buttons to reduce and/or increase the speed of playback. The player has a classic menu based interface that is strictly simple and stripped down with command buttons placed methodically at the lower end of the screen. On first run we are asked if VLC could get information from the internet and to automatically check for any updates available. The wizard lets you choose the language of installation, components and the folder to install and luckily is free of any toolbar installation. The installer is a basic 20MB file and requires 80MB of free space for installation. It is available for Windows, Macintosh, and many Linux flavours. VLC media player has a highly portable framework and works across different platforms. What started as a student project with the goal of developing a general purpose media player that could handle audio, video and streamed content has now brought us to the long-time open source favourite VLC media player formerly known as VideoLan Client.