Application of the VLC Media Player

This article discusses the use of the VLC Media Player in mobile phones, including the business model used and legal issues. The advantages and disadvantages of the application are also explored, along with recommendations for improvement. The VLC Media Player is an open source cross-platform media player that supports a wide variety of multimedia files. However, it has some disadvantages, such as large storage size and interface problems. Desklib offers solved assignments, essays, and dissertations.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Discussion........................................................................................................................................2
Type of business model used:......................................................................................................2
Legal issues:.................................................................................................................................3
Advantage of the application:......................................................................................................3
Disadvantage of application:.......................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The implementations of the mobile application for using the different services are gaining
popularity in large scale (Tsai et al. 2017). There are various advantages of using the mobile
application for the different services. The consumers prefer the use of the mobile application as it
enhances the flexibility of taking the service. One of the significant mobile applications of a
popular application software is use of VLC media player in mobile phone (Schöning et al. 2017).
VLC media player is a popular application which enables the users to see videos and play
different music files of different extension. The popularity of the VLC media player lies on the
fact that it supports maximum variety of multimedia file (Hsieh, Ke and Chiang 2016). The main
objective of this paper is to discuss the different aspects of the application of the VLC media
player in the smart phone and the problems and the issues regarding this context. The
recommendations for the improvement of the application have also been mentioned in the
discussion.
Discussion
Type of business model used:
The launch of any application follows a particular business model. There are different
types of business models those can be followed. In case of VLC media player application the
B2C business model has been followed (Hoyos 2016). In B2C business model the business
organizations provide the services to the consumers. In this case, the VLC media player enables
the users to see videos and play the different music files through this application (Tsai et al.
2017). The application was mainly used in the computers. However, the popularity of the
application has made the developer of this application to think about launching the application in
mobile or smart phone platform.
VLC media player is an open source cross platform media player which allows the
streaming of the videos (Panoiu, Rat and Panoiu 2015). The application is developed by the
videolan organization. The mobile application of this application is available in the different
mobile operating platform such as Android, ios , Windows. The application follows business to

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consumer model (Wang et al. 2017). The application is open source so the users do not need to
pay any amount to use the application.
The users can download and install the app regarding the VLC media player through the
app store. In case, the app store may be different for the different mobile operating system
(Hoang and Nguyen 2016). The design principal of VLC media player is modular design and the
graphical user interface is based on the Be API. It is a packet based media player and the
downloading is done via peer to peer network. For the interface VLC uses telnet interface
(Mattsson and Olsson 2015). The application can run directly from the USB devices or the
external devices. The android version of this application was available from 2014, while the
destock version running on the windows operating system is available from the earlier period
(Hsieh, Ke and Chiang 2016). There are different browser plug-in available so that the files can
be embedded in the website without additional plug-in. Apart from that the plug-in of the VLC
media player can be used in the Go Binding, Java console, C# interface.
Legal issues:
There are some of the legal issues regarding the use of the VLC media player. In order to
install the VLC media player for the ios and Windows platform the DVD encryption libraray
called libdvdcss is needed to be installed. However, this library may be restricted in some parts
of jurisdictions. The DVD encryption method for the VLC media player is Content Scramble
system. In this case the application can play the unauthorized decryption of the CSS encrypted
video content. In this case the violation of the digital copyright can be occurred.
Advantage of the application:
Apart from the legal issues regarding the use of the VLC media player, there are certain
advantages those can be available using the VLC media player (Hsieh, Ke and Chiang 2016).
The main advantage of suing the VLC media player is that most of the media files can be played
using the VLC media player (Vadgama et al.2017). Apart from that the VLC media player is
available in different mobile operating system platform (Tsai et al. 2017). The main advantage of
suing the VLC media player is that the application is open source so that the users can avail the
system without paying any amount of money. Most of the media players need codecs for the
easy running of the media files (Vadgama et al.2017). However, in case of the running of the
VLC media player no codecs is required for the running of the media files. Apart from that the

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application provides other benefits like live recordings of the videos (Hsieh, Ke and Chiang
2016). The VLC media player is free from virus and the additional advertisement. It can be used
in capturing the screenshots and the activities of the desktop.
Disadvantage of application:
Apart from various advantages of using the VLC media player there are certain
disadvantages regarding the use of the VLC media player (Surahio et al. 2016). The storage size
of the VLC media player is comparatively large. This can become problematic as for the most of
the smart phone the storage space is not large. Moreover additional plugins are required to play
the video files of specific extension. Another disadvantage of using VLC media player is that the
running of the application can be interrupted frequently (Hsieh, Ke and Chiang 2016). This lags
in the performance parameter of the application (Tsai et al. 2017). The application creates
problem for the small size speakers (Hsieh, Ke and Chiang 2016). The application automatically
increase the volume of the small speakers like laptop speakers, which causes distortion of the
speaker. H.265 encoded videos may generate error result while playing the VLC media player
(Tsai et al. 2017). Playing $K videos in the VLC media player may leads to the glitches with the
interruptions. The interface problem can be occurred during the playing of the DVD through the
VLC media player.
There are certain recommendations those can be made for the mitigation of the current
issues regarding the usage of the VLC media player (Hsieh, Ke and Chiang 2016). The size of
the application can be optimized so that application becomes more suitable for the mobile
application (Kim and Kim 2016). On the other hand the coding of the application can be done in
a proper way so that any format of the media can be played without interruption (Hsieh, Ke and
Chiang 2016). Apart from that the addition of the music mode and the setting of the music
equalizer can be beneficial for the improvement of the overall system.
The business of the VLC media player is doing well. The variety of the media formats
supported in the application has made the application popular to the consumers (Hsieh, Ke and
Chiang 2016). Apart from that the easy availability of the application along with open source and
cross platform nature have worked as the advantage for the VLC media player in the competitive
market of the media player software sector (Ongaro et al. 2015). However, the interface is not up
to date for the VLC media player and there are certain problem noticed during the laying of

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specific video format which may cause problem for the consumers (Tsai et al. 2017). Solving
these issues can be beneficial for the VLC media player to raise the position in the competitive
business situation.
Conclusion
The discussion is regarding the application and the situation of the VLC media player
with respect to the business scenario. The architecture of the VLC media player has been
discussed. Along with that the availability of the application on various platforms has been
mentioned in the context. It can be said with the context of the usability the application is robust
however, the flexibility of the system can make the application more popular to the consumers.
The application is supported to play different types of the media files which is the specialty of
this media player However, he storage space of the media player is large and is not suitable for
the smart phones with low storage space. Apart from that the interface of this media player is not
up-to-date. Moreover the plug-in can be required for the playing of some of the special formats
of the video files. The music player mode is not available in VLC media player. However, the
open source nature is suitable for the consumers to avail the service without paying the money in
business to consumer environment. Apart from that the absence of the advertisements and the
virus free nature of this application have made VLC player a popular mobile application for the
users. It can be said that the mitigation of the several issues during the running of the media files
through the VLC player will be beneficial for the application to do better in the competitive
market.

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