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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.2, Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.0 Server, Mac OS X 10.4 PPC, Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Date added: December 12, 2005
- Total Downloads: 2,286,856
- Downloads last week: 9,000
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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, it seems like nothing is ever as easy as it should be. VLC Media Player offers a one-stop solution, supporting playback of a whole slew of file types, including AVI, OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, and DVD. It can even function as a streaming-media server. Its open-source roots mean the program evolves quickly, with new features and fixes released frequently. Though the skinned mode perks up the interface, the program suffers from unpredictable behavior when it's activated. 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-scratcher Quick Open File. Overall, though, VLC Media Player earns its place on any computer with its ability to open just about any type of video file. Watch the CNET video review of VLC media player:
Publisher's description
From VideoLAN Project :VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
What's new in this version:
- Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
- SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
- Decoder:
* Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263 - Demux:
* Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks - Services Discovery:
* HAL (Linux Hardware Abstraction Layer) fixes, should now work with new API
* SAP
- fix 20 second freeze on windows
- new option to enable timeshifting on announced streams
* UPnP fix... see all new features
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User reviews of VLC media player 0.8.4a
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 185 votes
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24 out of 35 people found this review helpful
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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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC media player 0.8.4a
Pros: It plays everything. *****. Saves a lot of room when i don't need windows media player. That little app from hell was tough to remove.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC media player 0.8.4a
"5/5 Stars - Best Media Player"
Pros: It's open source, so IT'S FREE!
It's the best media player you'll ever need, with the ability to play any format, and run as a media server, why would you want to go anywhere else? All the codecs you need are in the program, and even if they're not, drag and drop the file onto VLC.
Cons: Don't have anything to complain about. Every client that I have referred onto it has neither complained either, only praised it!
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC media player 0.8.4a
Pros: Plays any media format that Quicktime does not play.
Cons: Needs more performance
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: VLC media player 0.8.4a
"This is a great product, try it, youll like it! Easy to use!"
Pros: This is the perfect program that suits Mac Users, for wiewing movies and music that aint common files!
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