Filed under: Internet, Video, Windows, Macintosh
New VLC Player
by David Chartier Jun 27th 2005 at 10:58PM
Hot on the tail of news that Google released a video viewer based on VideoLAN's open source VLC video player is news that an updated version of said player is out for Windows and OS X users. In case you've never experienced the multi-featured, multi-format video goodness that is VLC: it's a video player that can handle just about any video format under the sun, and then some. DVD, VCD, avi, QT, WMP, mpeg, DV, DIVX.. you get the picture. (Sorry, no Real support. How's that company still in business anyway?) In terms of new features, (scroll down for a list) the updated player (version 0.82) features a full playlist rewrite, improved preferences, Mac OS X Tiger compatibility, a brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin, a port to Pocket PC, mosaic picture in picture system, easy snapshots.. again, you get the picture.
I thoroughly appreciate VLC on OS X as it plays videos with absolutely no window border, (aside from a title bar) kind of like how Preview displays images and PDF's.
So go grab a copy and start enjoying video format one-ness.
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 9:49PM on 6-27-2005
This might be the final straw to move my primary machine to Tiger. I absolutely live by VLC (because I'm too cheap to buy QT Pro right now)... And the ability to not choke on a file-- what a concept!
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mcatrage said 11:13AM on 6-28-2005
best video player out there
i hope it doesn't go under because of patent suits
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Brian said 1:22AM on 6-28-2005
Does your example have the brushed metal look because you have SuperVLC, or is that the default look now?
Does anyone know where to get the SuperVLC plug in?
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David Chartier said 9:25AM on 6-28-2005
Brian, I'm downloading the new version as I write this, so I haven't actually played with it yet. I'm pretty sure that's just the control window/playlist window feature rewrite that they listed as a new feature in this version. I actually borrowed that pic from their screenshots page:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/screenshots.html
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