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80 out of 102 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.2
Pros: This will play all your medaia files that Windows Media Player won't. VLC Media player has all the codecs built in. If you get error messages on your WMP that says it is missing a codec and can't play the file, then VLC is what you need. It's free, and I give VLC Media player 5 stars and two thumbs up!
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43 out of 58 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.4a
"Best media player outside of Windows Media Player. Forget Media Player Classic."
Pros: Its free.
Its robust...it will play any video file you feed it.
It comes with a good number of codecs along with the program so you don't have to install those specific ones manually.
It has an uncommon icon (an orange road caution cone)...so you will never have trouble spotting the shortcut in a crowd of shortcuts on your desktop for example.
Cons: On one of my machines it has issues holding a video to the proper aspect ratio. For some reason the video plays, but if I move the VLC window one pixel, the video image stretches the width of my screen. Not sure why.
The scroll bar is fair at best. Unlike the Windows Media Player scroll bar which lets you start and stop at any individual second in the video, VLC's scroll bar doesn't seem to be that precise. It will jump five seconds or so, instead of just one.
The audio controller is fair at best.
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28 out of 31 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.5
Pros: This lightweight, free media player can decode most anything. Skinable UI and support for streaming. No matter what main media play I'm using I keep this for back-up.
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4 out of 8 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.2
"This program is great and plays 99% off my audio collection"
Pros: This program works well with my PC, and is definately worth downloading. If VLC is what you need this is definately the only solutions worth looking at!
Cons: None, system reource use was high but nothing that slowed my pc enough to worry.
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32 out of 35 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.5
"Never worry about video type again."
Pros: Even before it was here I have been a long time user of VLC, and i feel its a great video player
This bad boy can play just about everything(except real video think)so if you have windows media player, Real player and VLC there isn't anything you can't play , period.
Cons: well.. Its ugly as hell, but its still easy to navigate and it doesn't skip forward of back very well.. still, gets 5 stars because its a must have.
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