A great alternative.
Pros: VLC media player does everything. It plays almost any media file you could imagine, and can read and broadcast streams as well as read from capture devices such as TV tuners and webcams. VLC is free and open sourced, and is also skinnable. VLC also has the ability to convert audio and video files somewhat. You can also get a portable version of VLC to put on a flash drive or similar. Definitely better than a codec pack for WMP.
Cons: VLC doesn't have the most user friendly interface, it doesn't recognize commands from many PC remote controls, and it does a very bad job at converting files. Other than those, the only complaint I can think of is that it doesn't have good looking icons for media files that it opens.
Posted: 13-Aug-2007 09:04:44 AM