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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.4 PPC, Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Date added: April 01, 2008
- 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, 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, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
What's new in this version:
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec. This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
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User reviews of VLC media player 0.8.6f
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 185 votes
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Version: VLC media player 0.8.6f
"The most reliable media player"
Pros: One of the best and surely the most reliable media player on the market and its totally free and open source. It?s no exaggeration to say that it can open and play almost any media format, without need of downloading any codec at all. It?s a high portable application, better than any commercial or no-commercial media player. It?s great advantage is that it will try to open, and most of the times successfully, even destroyed files. In addition we can use Vlc as a video streaming server or just for video streaming downloading.
Cons: The only drawback of this application is that the GUI is not so user friendly.
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Version: VLC media player 0.8.6f
Pros: good
Cons: good
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Version: VLC media player 0.8.6f
Pros: it view nice movies
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Version: VLC media player 0.8.6f
"Much better than usual. Lacks video equalizer in SMPand subtitle cotrol not as good"
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Version: VLC media player 0.8.6f
"not as good as it used to be"
Pros: Still the best VCD player for Mac
Cons: The VLC is not as good as it used to be. I get a lot more errors not than I used to. It also does not seam to be able to do streaming video any more.
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