A Guide to using your computer as a video player

Many people ask me many questions regarding playing video files on the computer. Some queries are about the media, some are about media players, some about subtitles, and some about hardware and projection systems.


I have prepared a succinct, distilled guide to the perplexed where I cover most of the ground. I have composed it in LaTeX, since I don't like MS Word, google page creator etc. much. The downside is that it is therefore available in PDF. (HTML output doesn't do justice to the images).

A Guide to Using your Computer as a Video Player