VLC needs no introduction, it is the single most popular media player in the digital World.
Windows Media Player may perhaps be its only real competitor when it comes to popularity, but only because it came pre-installed on Windows computers.
VLC however, is an open source application, as a result of which it has evolved into a massively used cross-platform software, available for Windows PC, Windows Mobile, Linux, Android, iOS and Mac OS X. Well, now you can add one more to the list, Google ChromeOS.
ChromeOS computers are becoming very popular, thanks to the fact that it uses web applications, instead of the traditional standalone operating system. [...]