VLC – Making Your Laptop a Portable Media Player

One of the best things about laptops is their ability to go just about anywhere with you. For most people this simply means being taken out of the computer room and into the front room (love surfing whilst on the couch) or the bedroom (reading in bed is a bad habit but one I really enjoy).

But it doesn't have to be limited to the home. You can use your laptop on car journeys, plane journeys, train journeys. You can use it in hotel rooms or in service stations. Even on the beach should the desire take you!

That it is a portable device gives you a huge amount of freedom. And with portable, 3G Internet so easily available now being out of the home doesn't mean that you have to be offline. Even if you did decide to get your laptop out at the beach you could still be browsing websites or checking your email there.

Whilst being able to take the Internet with you anywhere that you go is a wonderfully useful aspect of your laptop another is it's ability to function as a portable media device.

For many people when they take trips and journeys they plan for entertainment. But there is only a limited space for you to be able to pack things for entertaining yourself on rainy days. Only so many books, MP3 players, portable DVD players etc that you can get into your bag – space is often tight and limited.

Which is why the laptop makes such a perfect mobile media device, taking up just a small amount of space and able to go everywhere with you. And do almost anything that you want it to.

The fact is that the laptop is able to do just about everything that you want to take with you for entertainment? Want to read books? Ebooks are everywhere these days and are easily read on your laptop.

Want to browse the web? A useful 3G attachment will have you surfing your favourite sites in no time at all.

And then there are the really powerful entertainment aspects that make a laptop the perfect media player to take with you. The VLC Media Player – which is available as a VLC Media Player free download – is able to combine almost all your media formatted files into one easy to use entertainment centre that you can use anywhere in the world.

The VLC Media Player enables you to

• Watch DVDs. Want to watch a film on a media player that supports using DVDs? Then the VLC Media Player is the software for you as it allows you to do just that – perfect for those wet weekends or long business trips.
  
  

• Watch Videos on your hard disk. Decided to save luggage space by putting TV shows, films and other video on to your hard disk? Good choice as you can still watch them just as easily as if they were on DVD by using the VLC media player free download.
  
  

• Steam video. By combining the VLC player with either a 3G connection or a Wi-Fi one you can use it to interact with various streaming protocols to watch almost any online video.
  
  

• MP3. Rather than pack a bunch of CDs etc you are likely to have all your music already on your computer – so save luggage space by simply bringing your computer with you! The VLC player is able to play the MP3s for you with no fuss at all.

All this from the VLC Media player free download. Not a penny spent and so much versatility!