VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

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Popularity:
#2 in Video (out of 237 products)
Editor's Rating:
4.0 stars
Average User Rating:
4.0 stars (out of 144 votes) Rate it!
Downloads:
1,779,519
Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4
Limitations:
No limitations
Date Added:
April 03, 2008
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Publisher's description of VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

From VideoLAN Project:

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Version 0.8.6f is a bug-fixing release.

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Editor's review of VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

4.0 stars
"The last video player you'll ever need"

When it comes to video files, nothing is ever as easy as it should be. Thankfully, VLC Media Player offers a one-stop solution for the file-format problem. The program supports playback of OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, DVD, and a whole slew of other file types. In addition, it also can function as a streaming media server. Because of its open-source foundation, VLC Media Player evolves quickly, with new features and fixes released frequently.

Though the interface varies from platform to platform, the sparseness of the Mac version leaves plenty to be desired. The skinned mode perks things up slightly, but the program seems to suffer from unpredictable behavior when skinned. Also, the basic task of opening a file is far more confusing than it should be; the program gives you several options, including the head-scratching Quick Open File. Overall, though, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it.

User reviews of VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 144 votes
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5 stars

Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

"The most reliable media player"

by angelntini on May 23, 2008

Pros: One of the best and surely the most reliable media player on the market and its totally free and open source. It?s no exaggeration to say that it can open and play almost any media format, without need of downloading any codec at all. It?s a high portable application, better than any commercial or no-commercial media player. It?s great advantage is that it will try to open, and most of the times successfully, even destroyed files. In addition we can use Vlc as a video streaming server or just for video streaming downloading.

Cons: The only drawback of this application is that the GUI is not so user friendly.

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3 stars

Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

"good"

by kusanka on May 31, 2008

Pros: good

Cons: good

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4 stars

Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

"it cool .com"

by tarun teja on April 18, 2008

Pros: it view nice movies

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-1 stars

Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

"Much better than usual. Lacks video equalizer in SMPand subtitle cotrol not as good"

by d4235 on April 15, 2008

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3 stars

Version: VLC Media Player 0.8.6f

"not as good as it used to be"

by Aaren Fiedler on April 15, 2008

Pros: Still the best VCD player for Mac

Cons: The VLC is not as good as it used to be. I get a lot more errors not than I used to. It also does not seam to be able to do streaming video any more.

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