VLC Media Player turns 1.0

chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
edited July 2009 in Science & Tech
VLC Media Player turns 1.0

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  • miragemirage
    edited July 2009
    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.
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    0.9.9 for life!
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    Media Player Classic > VLC.
  • pigflipperpigflipper The Forgotten Coast Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    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.
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    VLC is my backup "I've never even heard of this format" player.
  • GrimnocGrimnoc Marion, IN
    edited July 2009
    I use Media Player Classic for the most part, though I've had no problems with VLC either.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    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...
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    MKV doesn't use codecs. It's not a codec.
  • SnarkasmSnarkasm Madison, WI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    It's a container, I misworded. We've already been over this.
  • DrLiamDrLiam British Columbia
    edited July 2009
    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-CritchkiMikail-Critchki Here
    edited July 2009
    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.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    Hey Mikail! Long time no see!
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited July 2009
    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.
  • chrisWhitechrisWhite Littleton, CO
    edited July 2009
    ardichoke wrote:
    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.
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