Screengrab of VLC media player software with default skin

VLC is a media player from the VideoLAN project. It supports many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols. I was interested here to see if it could use it to stream video files from my desktop to the wireless laptop. It was easy to configure this to stream video files captured from a digital TV dongle on my desktop computer so that they can be played on my wireless laptop.