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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
- Date added: October 31, 2009
- Total Downloads: 18,704,413
- Downloads last week: 159,196
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1982 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 1.0.3 includes new deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms and fixes downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks.
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- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 1982 votes
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.3
"I am waiting at the station and the train sped by."
Pros: I like how simple it was to download.
Cons: I have been trying to use Pinnacle studio 10 with Windows 7. I also am trying to play a .msdv extention using Windows Media Player. Windows media dosen't seem to recegnize the dvd.
Summary: I could only give you a three star rating because I don't know what to do next after it is downloaded.
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.3
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.3
Pros: good from every aspect
Cons: poor design
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.3
Pros: It plays most videos that others can't play.
Cons: Sometimes a little difficult to make work..
Summary: It does not show up on my options list.
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.3
"Outperforms any other media player available."
Pros: Easy to use. Will play anything; even those "copy protected" (read: pain in the ass) DVD's that won't play with other software.
Cons: Nothing of any significance
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