VLC Media Player v0.8.6
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Need a media player that does a little bit of everything? With as many audio and video formats that there are out there, it is hard to find a program that does just about everything. VLC Media Player, I am happy to say, is that “does everything” sort of program.
Just last night, I wanted to watch a DVD on my laptop computer. I didn’t have any software to do it with that came with my computer - so what was I do to? I just downloaded and installed VLC and in a few minutes I was back to watching old episodes of Red Dwarf on DVD.
Here are a few notes from the developers about the product.
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) 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.
Now if you are not in love with the interface, you can always just keep it around as a backup program. Just in case you run into that one video that has the wacky format you can not play. VLC Media Player is a good alternative or backup solution so you don’t have to go hunting for hours for a specific player for that specific format.
If you haven’t already, download it - give it a shot and let me know your thoughts on it.
[9.02M] [Win98/ME/2k/XP] [FREE]
Tags: windows, freeware, media, player, formats, backup, audio, video, vlc media player, red dwarf
7 Comments
Michael Casey
February 8th, 2007
at 4:16am
Excellent program. It even plays .vro files that all programs are not capable of. Do you know of a program to copy .vro files to other formats?
Kepp up the excellet work.
Thank you
Geo
February 8th, 2007
at 7:21am
I have been using VLC .0.8.5 for quite some time on a variety of computers and think its great. It is rare that you can’t play a media file using this program. I also carry it around on a usb thumbdrive and it has come in handy on many occasions. It also starts up fairly quickly compared to other programs.
I also have it set up on my notebook to monitor local emergency calls much like the old scanners would do.It is a small program, doesn’t use many resources and I recommend it highly. In fact I wrote a short blurb about it on my web site some time ago.
http://www.nscave.com/Computer/vlc%20media%20player.htm
My thoughts on this program agree with yours.
-=George=-
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www.sammidoo.blogspot.com
Harley
February 8th, 2007
at 1:13pm
Not sure if it’s the same version (I think it is) but I’ve been running VLC for a few weeks now on my garage office PC. It’s a “homemade” box that runs NT 4.0 Workstation on the master drive. VLC works like a charm on it!
FWIW I run PCLinuxOS on the slave drive and of the dozen or so free distributions of Linux I’ve tried over the past year it’s the one I think I’ll stick with.
mike0
February 10th, 2007
at 4:46am
VLC 0.8.5 works fine with win98 (first edition) as long as you don’t try the Advanced Menu options. Then it will crash.
florin
April 3rd, 2007
at 2:57pm
I just downloaded the program and i am very pleased of it.
It is just i’ve been looking for to use for playing my vro file
from my video camera.
it is a super good player.
the only thing that i did’nt liked is that in full screen i did’nt have controls
of the position in the file; it is something witch is not yet done in th e program, or is it something that i did’nt yet discovered how to do it .
anyway double click, and in the window mode all the usual controls are available; i go to the segment y want to see and double click again; it is not very difficult;
anyway y like it very much .
thanks !
mattkenny
April 8th, 2007
at 3:42am
RE: Michael Casey: “Do you know of a program to copy .vro files to other formats?”
If VLC is capable of playing this type of file, then it can actually be used to convert it to (almost?) any other format that VLC supports (known as transcoding). Under the file menu, click “Wizard” then select the option “Transcode/Save to file”… then follow the prompts.
Described here: http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch02.html#id288450
Note: this isn’t the best way to convert formats, but for the occasional use it’s a lot more convenient than having to find/buy software dedicated to this purpose…
arvind
January 21st, 2008
at 10:56am
wana VLC media player to download,plz help me