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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: December 11, 2007
- Total Downloads: 15,859,755
- Downloads last week: 129,504
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1864 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
When it comes to video files, nothing is ever as easy as it should be. Thankfully, VLC Media Player offers a one-stop solution for the file-format problem. The program supports playback of OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, DVD, and a whole slew of other file types. In addition, it also can function as a streaming media server. Because of its open-source foundation, VLC Media Player evolves quickly, with new features and fixes released frequently.
Though the interface varies from platform to platform, the sparseness of the Windows version leaves plenty to be desired. The skinned mode perks things up slightly, but the program seems to suffer from unpredictable behavior when skinned. Also, the basic task of opening a file is far more confusing than it should be; the program gives you several options, including the head-scratching Quick Open File. Overall, though, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it.
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Publisher's description
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.
The most prominent additions to version 0.8.6 are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, and a full-screen. Version 0.8.6d is a bug fixing release.
What's new in this version:
Version 0.8.6d is a bug fixing release.
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User reviews of VLC Media Player 0.8.6d
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1864 votes
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6d
"Great & Best for all kind of audio and Video Formet"
Pros: You can play everything on it
Cons: Simple and best
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6d
Pros: Everything about this software is great. There is one exception though, why is there no options to reverse and instead replaced with one that allows the video to play slower? I think the former is more useful to everyone.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6d
"Does what it says and I love it!"
Pros: Fortunately for this player, I actually was saved so I can watch a movie since Windows Media Player didn't have codecs. I love the way it works, it's very simple, fast, not much small in size, but at least smaller in size than other players. It plays a great amount of videos and audio. The player is also free of charge!
Cons: Not to be picky, but I kind of hated the cone as the default icon for it and for the audio/visual files. The interface also seems pretty 1990's to me, although it's a small price to pay. Um, I have been told that this player uses less resources than Windows Media Player. When I compared, they both used about the same amount.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6d
Pros: i put dvd movies on my hard drive and converted them into iso files. vlc is the defalt player. i can watch my movies anytime, even in a small screen as i'm doing other things.
Cons: not a con, just an opinion, the icon could be at least a cool looking traffic cone.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6d
Pros: Works well on all pc's even the older ones, because it uses a minimum of ram. Like it better than Media player.
Cons: Could use a litle help on it's look. You know make it more sophisticated looking and also needs to add fullscreen. But all in all best player ever.
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