VLC media player is an open source video and audio player capable of playing almost any type of media including DVDs and VCDs. In addition to being able to play most video and audio files, VLC can also post free ads without registration
File extensions that can be opened by vlc-media-player

sh.ASX	Advanced Stream Redirector
sh.DTS	Digital Theater Systems Audio File
sh.GXF	General eXchange Format
sh.M2V	MPEG-2 Video
sh.M3U	MP3 Uniform Resource Locator
sh.M4V	MPEG-4 Video File
sh.MPEG1	MPEG-1 Video
sh.MPEG2	MPEG-2 Video
sh.MTS	AVCHD Video File
sh.MXF	Material eXchange Format
sh.OGM	Ogg Multimedia Container File
sh.PLS	Playlist
sh.BUP	DVD Information File
sh.A52	Dolby Digital AC-3 Compressed Audio File
sh.AAC	Advanced Audio Coding Compressed Audio File
sh.B4S	Winamp 3+ Playlist
sh.CUE	Cue Sheet
sh.DIVX	DivX Movie
sh.DV	Digital Video
sh.FLV	Flash Video
sh.M1V	MPEG-1 Video
sh.M2TS	MPEG-2 Transport Stream Videos
sh.MKV	Matroska Video Stream
sh.MOV	Apple QuickTime Movie
sh.MPEG4	MPEG-4 Video
sh.OMA	OpenMG Audio File
sh.SPX	Ogg Speex Audio File
sh.TS	DVD Video
sh.VLC	VLC Media Player Data
sh.VOB	DVD Video Object
sh.XSPF	XML Shareable Playlist Format
sh.DAT	VCD Video
sh.BIN	Binary DVD Video
sh.IFO	DVD Information File
sh.PART	Partially Downloaded File
sh.3G2	3G Mobile Phone Video
sh.AVI	Audio Video Interleave
sh.MPEG	MPEG Video
sh.MPG	MPEG Video
sh.FLAC	Free Lossless Audio Codec Compressed Audio FIle
sh.M4A	MPEG-4 Audio File
sh.MP1	MPEG-1 Audio Layer I
sh.OGG	Ogg Multimedia Container File
sh.WAV	Waveform Audio
sh.XM	Extended Module Audio File
sh.3GP	3G Mobile Phone Video
sh.SRT	DVD Subtitles File
sh.WMV	Windows Media Video
sh.AC3	Dolby Digital AC-3 Compressed Audio File
sh.ASF	Advanced Systems Format Video
sh.MOD	MOD Audio File
sh.MP2	MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
sh.MP3	MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
sh.MP4	MPEG-4 Part 14 Multimedia Container
sh.WMA	Windows Media Audio File
sh.MKA	Matroska Audio Stream
sh.M4P	Protected AAC File

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