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Finally! VLC MEDIA PLAYER

VLC media player is an open source, free software media player written by the VideoLAN project.

VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Now, in English:

Ever got a video from the internet or a video from a friend and you tried it on that darned Windows Media Player and it never worked?

Ever wandered into the depths of those funny looking video formats like .amv, .rm, .m4a ? No I suppose, well you need a player thats not so god damn stubborn as Windows Media Player! You need Video Lan Client Media Player.

Its every where on the Internet, VLC is downloaded by almost a 1000 people in the world every second. Why? It plays every single thing you can imagine to throw at it. Every video fromat ever invented and it "playsitall"!

Gone will your days be of video playback error or messages from the unknown world. With its very simple and elegant design, you wont to spend hours trying to figure out what to press.

VLC is also packed full of stuff, takes seconds to load on the weakest of machines and you can even dress it up with your own themes.

Vlc also uses its own very good codecs which means that you'll be getting really good picture quality with fantastic sound thats compatible with that surround sound you have hooked up. All you have to do is download the program and while installing, choose to make VLC your default media player, and next time you get any kind of media file in the world, VLC will play it for you super quick and wont lag your computer at all.


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We have a lot to thank the open source software community for, including Linux, the GIMP and now VLC Media Player.

VideoLAN started as a student project at the École Centrale Paris, with the goal of developing a general-purpose media player that could handle audio, video and streamed content. The main result of this project so far is the VideoLAN Client (VLC) Media Player, currently in version 1.0.0.

Think of something like Windows Media Player and you'll be part way to VLC. It can play most kinds of common audio such as OGG, MP3, WAV and WMA, and most kinds of video such as AVI, MPEG and WMV, but it goes further than that. Key among its advantages is that you don't need a separate codec such as WinDVD or PowerDVD to play DVD movies and there are versions of VLC Media Player for most common computing platforms.

The program in its default form looks innocuous enough, like one of the mini skins for Windows Media Player; you just don't get all the pop-ups saying it needs a codec for MP4, FLAC or Raw DV. These are also covered by default in the VLC player and new formats are being added all the time. The latest update added WMV9 and Flash video.

VLC Media Player has a range of skins of its own - all free to download, of course -
so you can make it look like Windows Media Player, Vista or Mac OS X, or venture into something more freeform. The most obvious controls are for media transport - play, pause, rewind, etc. - but there are others, including a graphic equaliser, adjustment of video colours and options to take a snapshot of the screen and to turn a video into wallpaper.

Play a DVD movie and you have full control of its menu system in the normal way. You can run it full-screen, without the player's menu or status strips at top or bottom. Video runs smoothly, even on a comparatively low-powered PC; we tested on an Athlon XP 2100+.

There are versions of the program for Windows, Mac, Linux, BeOS and BSD and all are released under the GNU General Public Licence. As such they cost you nothing for private use. You can also distribute the program freely (and help with the development, if you like), as long as you stick to the terms of the licence.

-from IT Reviews.com