Linked by Adam S on Mon 26th Mar 2007 17:01 UTC, submitted by FreeRhino
Multimedia, AV 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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It is the best
by CrazyDude0 on Mon 26th Mar 2007 18:08 UTC
CrazyDude0
Member since:
2005-07-10

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.

Agreed, Brilliant piece of software.
by burnttoy on Mon 26th Mar 2007 18:49 in reply to "It is the best"
burnttoy Member since:
2006-07-28

It seems to play anything I drop on it. Then I started digging deeper. What really peeled my brain was when I had it playing a DVD on my Vaio, over wifi with the DVD itself in my flatmates Powerbook. Then there's fun with webcams. Brilliant stuff.

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RE: It is the best
by madhatter on Mon 26th Mar 2007 20:16 in reply to "It is the best"
madhatter Member since:
2005-07-07

Try mplayer - plays even more files!
Allthough it has no support for DVD menus and it's DVB-S support sucks(have to use xine for that) but I like it's minimalistic interface and mencoder is a very powerful tool for video conversion.

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