How to play a short clip you found on the Web that Windows Media Player can not play

Play a short clip from the Web with VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is a kind of full-free and highly portable multimedia player which capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

"When I attempt to use Windows Media Player to play clips from an internet website, I receive a warning page implying that I cannot connect to internet, in fact, I am on the net. Does anyone have a fix for this?"

The function of some common media player is limitted, you can find a kind of powerful multimedia player to play clips on the Web.

Here we recommend a professional multimedia player --- VLC Media Player , which can play short clips form internet websites that other media player can not play, even if the videos that aren't downloaded completely.

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Steps: How to play short clips from Websites

In the following part we will show you how to play short clips from Websites with VLC Media Player.

What you need to prepare at the beginning?

1. Download VLC Media Player.
2. Install it on your computer correctly.

Step1. Start VLC Media Player

Double-click the icon of VLC on desktop to start VLC Media Player program.

Step2.Click Open Network stream... and go to Open interface

Click the file, then click red-marked Open Network stream...
Go to the Open source, and type the websites address of the short clip, then click play. You can play the short clip from the websites simply.