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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
15,276,074
- Operating Systems:
Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Additional Requirements:
No additional requirements
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
July 06, 2009
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Publisher's description of VLC Media Player
From VideoLAN Project:VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Version 1.0 introduces more responsive controls, frame-by-frame playback, on-the-fly recording for all media, and support for a wider range of codecs, decoders, encoders, and demuxers.
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Editor's review of VLC Media Player
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- "VLC for video victory"
- Reviewed on: July 9, 2009
- Version reviewed: VLC Media Player 1.0
VLC Media Player is a long-time open-source favorite, and the latest version is also the first to be out of beta development. It's not the only option for free video playback, but it's one of the best, and the feature updates in version 1 make it well worth the upgrade.
Users can now get frame-by-frame advancement, granular speed controls allowing for on-the-fly slower or faster playback, and live recording of streaming video. The toolbars are fully customizable, so you can have only the buttons you need in the interface, there's AirTunes streaming, and there's better integration in Gtk environments. Along with the improvements, VLC continues to offer robust support for a wide range of video and audio formats, including OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, HD codecs like AES3, Raw Dirac, and even support for playing back zipped files. The default interface is still a stripped down player that belies VLC's functionality and features. Skinning can fix that quickly, but behavior can still be a bit unpredictable depending on the quality of the skin. VLC's open-source foundation and community ensures that it evolves quickly and often, with new features and fixes released frequently. Overall, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it.More popular Video Players downloads
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1597 votes
- My rating: 0 stars Write review
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0
Pros: Best video player I've ever used!
Cons: It will not play from the last scene of the previous played DVD's. It always start from the beginning.
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0
"Thus Far I Find it to be what I expected"
Pros: I like it because with a little tweaking in tools you can actually use this as a video wallpaper instead of purchasing a seperate program. Now those that use vista ultimate, they need not worry about this, but other vista users can appreciate it
Cons: So far I havent found anything other than I cant seem to change the skins
Summary: not sure if this is ok to write but go to preferences and in the video section of interface check the enable video box fullscreen and under directx enable wallpaper mode
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC Media Player 1.0
"Good, but does NOT play everything without a codec pack"
Pros: Very frugal with system resources, plays ALMOST every format without an external decoder
Cons: Does NOT play every format, contrary to claims, without an external decoder
Summary: This is a good player, but still doesn't come to the level of KMPlayer, which truly doesn't need any external codec packs in order to play all media.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC Media Player 1.0
"It's alright but needs improvement"
Pros: There are a lot of added features and it will still play almost any format out there.
Cons: V 1.0 will not read my DVD's, I kept getting an error that it wasn't able to read the drive. Downgraded to the previous version (9.9) and it works just fine.
Summary: For me, the previous stable version works better. VLC is still the workhorse of the media player world but I think this version just isn't quite ready for primetime.
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0
Pros: can play many formats
Cons: not exactly the most perfect graphics
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