VLC is the supreme of all open source projects, you used it in school, college, work and home.
I used it since I was a child and it has never failed on me. It didn’t matter what type of file you chucked at it, it would run it.
Do you disagree or agree with VLC being the best media player? What are your thoughts?
I prefer mplayer—novel-length man page and all—for video, but there’s nothing innately wrong with VLC. I did try it, a very long time ago, but it felt too GUI-oriented for my taste back then.
(I can think of exactly two times mplayer has failled to play a file I presented it with, and in both cases it was my own fault for not compiling in support for that codec. However, the man page is justifiably frightening.)