VLC is ridiculously useful. I actually use VLC for a lot of things other than playing video: 1. Ripping video files off websites 2. As a DVR where I can sche

VLC is ridiculously useful. I actually use VLC for a lot of things other than playing video: 1. Ripping video files off websites 2. As a DVR where I can schedule a stream rip via scheduled task 3. Media format conversion 4. A way to check file content while it is still being downloaded (VLC is resilient to missing chunks of files) 5. DLNA alternative - since the Xbox build of it can play off NFS/SMB shares After all these years, I still feel like I've barely touched most of its capabilities.