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VLC Media Player turns 1.0

Chris White July 7, 2009 6:26 PM ET in Tech

When it comes to media players, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more flexible solution than the VLC Media Player. We’ve always liked VLC because it will play just about any kind of video you throw at it, regardless of the platform, often without the use of external codecs.

VLC may not have the prettiest interface or the flashiest site, but today’s version 1.0 is the most feature-complete playback solution you can possibly download. That makes it a winner in our book.

Bonus: A portable version of VLC will soon be available courtesy of PortableApps. Piss off your administrators by bringing something better than Windows Media Player to work on a USB key.

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14 Comments:

mirage
Veteran Icrontian

7 Jul '09, 9:08 pm

I want to love VLC player and stick with it. But it is still not an as good video converter as a player. Just tried to convert one of my DVDs into PS3 format. The previous RC and 0.9.x versions were not even able to start conversion. This, supposedly final, version completes the conversion but some part of the video at the end has no sound.
fatcat
sasquatch wannabe

7 Jul '09, 9:55 pm

0.9.9 for life!
Thrax
Cad

7 Jul '09, 9:59 pm

Media Player Classic > VLC.
pigflipper
Shot Master

7 Jul '09, 10:21 pm

Quoting Thrax

Media Player Classic > VLC.

I think I might have to agree, I've now had VLC crash at least a dozen times in the 2 hours since install.
Lincoln
Snapperhead

7 Jul '09, 10:23 pm

VLC is my backup "I've never even heard of this format" player.
Grimnoc
I don't need no stinkin avatar

7 Jul '09, 11:37 pm

I use Media Player Classic for the most part, though I've had no problems with VLC either.
Snarkasm
The Photographer.

7 Jul '09, 11:48 pm

VLC is my .mkv player while I hunt for exactly the right codec that'll let it work with everything else. Always takes forever to find that one...
Thrax
Cad

7 Jul '09, 11:50 pm

MKV doesn't use codecs. It's not a codec.
Snarkasm
The Photographer.

7 Jul '09, 11:59 pm

It's a container, I misworded. We've already been over this.
DrLiam
FoxtoN

8 Jul '09, 1:01 am

I've still yet to find anything more valuable than the K-Lite codex pack. I did encounter VLC before I found K-Lite but I wasn't fond of it's design or layout. That said though, maybe 1.0 might be worth testing out.
Mikail Critchki
Planet Ninja

8 Jul '09, 3:10 am

I use SMPlayer; When I checked which had the best image quality, it won. I know you can fix "boxiness" with filters but when I tried the quality got worse. SMPlayer plays it straight away without difficulty.

By the way, SMPlayer uses MPlayer.
primesuspect
The Icrontic Guy

8 Jul '09, 3:20 am

Hey Mikail! Long time no see!
ardichoke
King Banana Spanner

9 Jul '09, 8:29 pm

I do enjoy Media Player Classic, it refuses to play DVDs on my desktop though. VLC plays them just fine though. That right there gives VLC a permanent place on my desktop. Oh... and VLC is a godsend on Linux.
Chris White
Polygons

9 Jul '09, 9:29 pm

Quoting ardichoke

I do enjoy Media Player Classic, it refuses to play DVDs on my desktop though. VLC plays them just fine though. That right there gives VLC a permanent place on my desktop. Oh... and VLC is a godsend on Linux.

Oh man, I haven't jacked with Windows Media Player Classic in ages, probably not since I first started using VLC actually.

We go through a ton of videos in every imaginable format at the labs I work with since everyone has videos from a million different sources and VLC just rocks at everything. I still use Quicktime where I can, I really like being able to scrub it so responsibly and go frame by frame but everything else goes through VLC. It's especially good for playing .flv files.

VLC Media Player turns 1.0

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