Why would you want to install VLC Media Player Nightly then? Perhaps you’ve come across a bug and want to see if it’s in the process of being fixed. Like most good apps, VLC Media Player is constantly in development, and if you’re a brave soul you can get a heads up on the next release by installing this preview – and untested – build instead of the stable version, which we’d recommend most people use instead. That magic bullet with video’s name on it VideoLAN’s VLC Media Player. Thankfully there are media players out there designed to play a wide variety of video, and one of the best is completely free (open-source in fact). It’s all very confusing, and can lead to an explosion of different media players finding themselves installed on your computer in order to watch video from a variety of different sources. The end result is a confusing mess where you can get one MP4 file to play on your computer, but not another – simply because they’ve been created using different codecs.
Video’s a funny old thing: it’s not enough there’s no single standard for video playback, the situation is complicated by the fact video is effectively split into two parts: the “container” the file is placed in, identifiable by its three-letter file extensions like MOV, WMV or VOB, plus the “codecs” used to render the video.
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