Freeware is copyrighted computer software which is made available for use free of charge, for an unlimited time, as opposed to shareware where the user is required to pay (e.g. after some trial period or for additional functionality). The license may be "free for personal, non-commercial use." Everything created with the freeware programs can be distributed at no cost (for example graphic, documents, or sounds made by user). (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware)

VLC Media Player 0.8.6h

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (3GP, MP4, FLV, AVI, WAV, MKV, ASF, VOB, AAC, WMA, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as ASCII art.

What is VLC Media Player 0.8.6h ?
VLC media player 0.8.6h is a free software media player written by the VideoLAN project. It is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats. It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for BeOS, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MorphOS, Solaris and Windows CE, and is widely used with over 65 million downloads for version 0.8.6.

VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by FFmpeg. This means that DVD Video and MPEG-4 playback as well as support for Ogg and Matroska (MKV) file formats work "out of the box". However, this feature is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including MPlayer and xine-lib-based players, can play those formats without need for external codecs. VLC does, however, also support codecs that are not included in FFmpeg.

VLC Media Player 0.8.6h Features:
+ It is a free cross-platform media player
+ It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
+ It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
+ It is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded.
+ The player also has the ability to use libcdio to access .iso files so that the user can play files on a disk image, even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images.

VLC Media Player 0.8.6h has license: Open Source
File Size: 8.96 MB
Freeware VLC Media Player 0.8.6h Requirements:
- Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64