what is VLC media payer? And why we use VLC

VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS Website: wiki.videolan.org/Libvlc, videolan.org, videolan.org/vlc, videolan.org/vlc/%7C Developers: VideoLAN Initial release: February 1, 2001 Written in: Java, C, C++, Qt, Lua, Objective-C, Swift, Cocoa Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Android, macOS, Linux, MORE Platforms: x86-64, x86-32 (32 bit Intel x86), PowerPC, ARM architecture family, MIPS architecture Type: Media player software, Library