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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: September 22, 2009
- Total Downloads: 17,456,101
- Downloads last week: 165,628
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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 1.0.2 introduces many fixes for SSA decoding, v4l2, MacOS interface, ogg/theora, x264 modules, and security issues.
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User reviews of VLC Media Player 1.0.2
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 1912 votes
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.2
"Most efficient media player."
Pros: Will play practically any kind of file out there.
Cons: Its not the most user friendly software, but its easy enough.
Summary: Great media player. A must have for any computer whether or not it is used as the primary media player.
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.2
Pros: I like it because it play's all my .avi and .mpg movies I download to watch. It is quick and easy to use.
Cons: Only that it has no fast forward or reverse capabilities, only a slide bar that is awkward to use. I'd give it five stars f it had this feature.
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.2
"it is a very good product and thanks for the same."
Pros: it is good and ameanable to all types of files
Cons: i did not find any con in the programme
Summary: fine thanks and hope you would keep it up so that average people like
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.2
Pros: Program works very well and is easy to use .
Cons: No faults come to mind .
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.2
"I find this mediaplayer the best there is. I"
Pros: It's easy to work with.Sound and videofeatures are very good.Everything reacts well and even Mpeg 4 of a less good quality looks good when I have pepped it up this software.
Cons: Maybe there are things I don't like;the only thing is :Ï have not discovered them yet.
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