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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Date added: June 07, 2009
- Total Downloads: 2,323,361
- Downloads last week: 14,951
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 185 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 Mac 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 media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.
What's new in this version:
See http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS.
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Version: VLC Media Player 1.0.0rc3
"After installation it won?t launch"
Pros: None, doesn?t work!
Cons: After installation it won?t launch. There are no added instructions to identify these strange ?Octet Stream? .dmg.shal or ?plug-ins?
Summary: Doesn?t work!
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