These days trying to navigate your way through the video compression format mine field can prove pretty difficult at the best of times. With a severe lack of any universal video compression standard you could end up spending hours searching for the appropriate application or plug in to play your obscure .TXZFN video file you have just downloaded from your favourite Ukrainian self tanning tutorial website. But never fear VLC player has the answer to all your problems. While you won't be getting the slick interface you find on the likes of windows media player or itunes, what you do get is support for just about every audio and video format under the sun. If VLC can't play it the likely hood is nothing can. They also include support for uncompressed DVD video files (.VOB) which is a nice touch and rumour has it some industrious hackers have also started porting the player to Apples 'Jesus Phone'. With over 96 million downloads under it's belt already, the masses appear to be pretty chuffed with this one. It's free to download too, so get clicking.