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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: July 28, 2009
- Total Downloads: 16,653,413
- Downloads last week: 122,343
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1912 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on July 09, 2009
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. Watch the CNET video review of VLC Media Player:
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.
What's new in this version:
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. Version 1.0.1 is a bug-fixing release.
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User reviews of VLC Media Player 1.0.1
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 1912 votes
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.1
Pros: Easy to use, clear replay.
Cons: None that I can find
Summary: Get it - it plays almost everything!
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.1
"very best for windows or linux, both of which i use"
Pros: playz anything n everything
Cons: UI should hav been better
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.1
"Its worth a catch!!!! Love it"
Pros: It plays almost all types of audio and video files. Windows Media Player hardly works well. It doesnt play much types of files.
Cons: I love it. Some minor bugs but very nice
Summary: Try it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.1
"A fantastic player with all features required"
Pros: A very compact multi format player that plays many many formats
Cons: A compact, multi format player that plays almost all media formats
Summary: Surely it is worth downloading a great service by VLC Team, thanks and best wishes to them
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.1
Pros: bra upplösning mot lite datorkapacitet
Cons: a like it, always operating
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