VLC Media Player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Today, every smartphone is a portable media player; however, prior to the smartphone explosion in the 2007-2012 time frame, a variety of handheld players were available to store and play music.

(1) A handheld device that plays video in the MPEG-4 movie file format. See MP4 and portable video player. (2) Any media player software or Blu-ray/DVD player that supports the MP4 movie file format.

There was a brief time in the early 2000s when we carried cellphones, wallets, keys, and a bespoke digital media player loaded with a small selection of our music libraries. Devices like iPods ...

They don't typically have good DAC or headphone output stages. Our in-house expert reviewers, who have over 150 years of collective experience, have been testing portable music players since the ...

[Bram] wasn’t satisfied with the portable music playback devices that were currently available. He craved an offline music player that had a large storage capacity but found that this was only ...