Linux.com takes a look at one of our favorite media players, VLC. They write "VideoLAN's VLC is a cross-platform media player with a simple interface that doesn't require a degree in rocket science to operate. That doesn't mean, however, that VLC is a simplistic application: it has a few tricks up its sleeve that can significantly extend its functionality and enhance your user experience. Here are a couple of VLC's nifty features you might want to try."
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maybe someday we will have a good KDE interface 
I don't know if they're still on track, but the VLC team had planned to drop the wxWidgets interface for version 0.9 and use Qt instead. I actually started helping them with that, but then my laptop died and I got too busy. I hope they new interface will make it! More info here: http://wiki.videolan.org/QtIntfTODO
Also, one of the main devs is looking for some help with the new Qt4 interface:
Rationale for choosing Qt http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2007/02/10/Qt4-Interface
Help request
http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2007/03/17/Help-me-with-Qt4-and-er...
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This is one of the best media player. No codec downloading headache. Just drop any media file on it and it plays it.
In my experience, there has never been any media file that VLC couldn't play unless it was corrupt. OTOH windows media player, real player or quicktime fails to detect so many media files.
I simply love VLC.
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Using VLC almost all the time, I just have to sayy that's a really nice player and not just play your ordinary files, but also comes to rescue you when you got a problem with any specific file... It can even export file sequences from a movie file! It's very useful.
That said, I just home some more developers for the Windows version join the crew, this port needs some more love. =]
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supported.
Lots of artists selling digital versions of their audio in lossless are using WMA Play For Sure DRM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PlaysForSure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairUse4WM
If VLC implements as an add-on this FairUse to strip out this DRM then it definitely gets my vote.
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Is the only thing missing for me.
I like to run my system with default output on channel 1&2 of my audio card and then manually set music and video audio channels to audio 3&4.
That way I can use speaker out for entertainment and I can play games using my headphones whilst my GF practices on our Digital Piano which is routed through my PC. VLC is limited in this sense.
Still the only video playback software I use.
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I've been using VLC forever on BeOS & W2K with good results, far more things in there than I care to know about.
When I tried Ubuntu, I had hoped it would just install "Just Like That" like it does elsewhere, no such luck. I wasted too much time already with no movies played so far. I assume it works though so I will get around to fixing it eventually, just a bit disappointed at the work involved.
So for a clean VLC on Ubuntu install, just how much work should it have taken?
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When I tried Ubuntu, I had hoped it would just install "Just Like That" like it does elsewhere, no such luck. I wasted too much time already with no movies played so far. I assume it works though so I will get around to fixing it eventually, just a bit disappointed at the work involved.
So for a clean VLC on Ubuntu install, just how much work should it have taken?
It worked fine on Slackware. (Though it didn't create shortcuts automatically but that's hardly a chore)
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Hmmm, are you guys able to get your VLC to start up in the newly shosen skin ?
Mine always starts up with the basic default skin, then I'm able to change one of the installed skins.
Apart from that, it is a great player - making life much more easy than MPlayer did.
What platform are you using? If it is Windows I believe there is a separate executable which allows you to start up with a skin. It's VLC-skins or something like that. Linux uses a command switch I believe, "-skins" or something of that nature.
