Useful Software 1 - VLC Player

Posted by Russ in Tuesday, May 6th 2008   under: Ramblings, Technology    Tags: , , , , , ,    

I’m going to start posting some more useful and informative stuff on here. I want to start off with a bunch of free software that makes things a lot easier.

The first useful software is VLC Player. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

VLC can be simply used as an all in one media player. Use it to play just about any media format there is without having to worry about different codecs and dealing with programs that take forever to open or are really slow (Windows Media Player and iTunes).

VLC media player is also completely free. That’s right, download and use it without paying a penny. If you’d like to help develop it, VLC is also open source! VLC is available for many different operating systems right from their website. Download today and enjoy one of the greatest media players out there.

5 Comments Already

Andrew Said,
May 6th, 2008 @5:16 pm  

I use VLC all the time, it’s great for videos that just wont work in any other player. Though it’s usually my last resort because I’m not a huge fan of the interface. Not that it’s bad, but I’m more used to media player classic or bsplayer.

Elana Rams Said,
May 6th, 2008 @5:56 pm  

Nice post Russ.

VLC is really useful. I use to to play MP3’s that I’ve just downloaded, and don’t want to import into iTunes yet - because my iTunes is set to organize my files, into their folder-system.

Russ Said,
May 6th, 2008 @11:09 pm  

@Andrew: I like the interface because it’s so simple. What do I need a flashy looking interface for if all I’m doing is watching a full screen movie.

Of course for managing a big library of music I use iTunes.

Rasterbator Said,
May 8th, 2008 @2:14 am  

Well no doubt VLC player is a good one. I have been using it for last 2.5 years on my Mac and when all other players fail me, I am sure VLC will play it. Mplayer used to be good for windows but I don’t like Mplayer OSX and Mplayer OSX2. The first time I used VLC was as a ‘lan video streamer’ during my college time, after that we exploited the robustness by playing scratched CDs and DVDs.. boy we were impressed :) Simply put.. VLC Rocks !!

tazdog Said,
May 8th, 2008 @2:45 pm  

yes VLC is an awesome player and that is what I use most of the time. And I don’t think it’s over bloated full of (windows media) junk. hehe
Also agree with the easy to use interface…!!!

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