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- zenrhe, on 07/02/2008, -0/+147had no idea i had all that power sitting there, thinking it was just a player!
- runiteking1, on 07/01/2008, -4/+143VLC == Beast
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -2/+109I love the fact that it will play any file except Real Media files. That POS wasn't even worth coding into VLC.
- Jenadae, on 07/03/2008, -3/+83i HATE VLCs Playlist menu...
- isaiah1112, on 07/01/2008, -0/+56I have not used this particular method before but I have used VLC in the past to decode Sony DVDs which Handbrake or MacTheRipper fail to decode. Thank you VLC!
- spanglegluppet, on 07/03/2008, -1/+41Wow, I never realised I could do any of this with VLC. It just keeps getting more awesome. Great article.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+26Video Wall is the best feature of VLC. I use it to split videos in half and maximize the halves on both of my monitors for one big widescreen movie. You can split up videos into a ton of pieces for those rows of TVs that make up a huge display. Pretty fun stuff.
- cadmiumpaint, on 07/03/2008, -1/+27VLC has been around for a while but works pretty good.
On a mac its one of the only apps that will play funky .AVI and .WMV files that quicktime can't open.
Its interface is kinda wierd but its good for what it does. - dasdef, on 07/03/2008, -7/+27i prefer media player classic for watching videos
- GreatOne08, on 07/03/2008, -4/+23VLC is a must have app
- craziplaya21, on 07/03/2008, -7/+26CCCP+MPC/ZP > VLC for Windows by very large margin
Mplayer > VLC for Linux
as for Macs... they are stuck with VLC - Rotzooi, on 07/03/2008, -0/+17It's a great player, but the interface just sucks the life right out of me.
- OutLawSuit, on 07/03/2008, -1/+19Too bad VLC still can't handle .mkv that well. CCCP + MPC certainly beats VLC in that regard.
- stonedgeek, on 07/03/2008, -0/+16Agreed. I use VLC for playing all videos, but the playlist function is a major problem. I hope it get's fixed soon.
- prisoner24601, on 07/03/2008, -0/+15"why not just play them in VLC?"
Well, I don't want to sound critical here at all (I'm genuinely very impressed with VLC and admire the effort that went into it...) but for users with really basic needs, WMP kind of does look a little bit more "polished" overall. If you are honestly ONLY going to play your mp3 collection and (like a fair number of users out there) simply never deal with h.345/glarzak multi-cast overthruster streams or metric-standard .foo videos ;-) but just want to play the music you already have in mp3's, then (and I know this may get me flamed by everybody with an issue with Microsoft, but I'll go ahead and say it anyway...) then WMP is actually a very nice player. It's already installed. Users are already used to the interface. The interface is very attractive (like with the various visualization options during playback, etc) and just honestly does everything they need. (Play mp3's, rip mp3's, etc.)
I'm honestly not at all dissing VLC. It's truly great work. It's just that when you have a product that does exactly what you want 95% of the time (WMP), works the way you like/has menus you are already familiar with, then you naturally look at a way to add the missing 5% (DVD playback) to what you have, not throw it out and start again with another solution. - shawnanigans, on 07/03/2008, -1/+13If it had a better GUI it would be the ultimate player. Instead I use MPC, which still doesn't have a good GUI but at least it has controls when it's fullscreen.
- RADicalSatDude, on 07/03/2008, -0/+11FLV seeking is still broken, FFDSHOW doesn't have any issues though. VLC would be complete when they fix FLV seeking.
- wiresjr, on 07/03/2008, -2/+12I hope your apostrophes get fixed soon
- Wootstapler, on 07/03/2008, -1/+10Good to see that VLC is getting some good publicity, because it really is that awesome.
- acetv, on 07/03/2008, -1/+10I understand your question, but why not just play them in VLC?
- diulei, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9True
- WELLDOITLIVE, on 07/03/2008, -0/+9Classic NES music
- FDL1, on 07/03/2008, -0/+8Or... MPlayer OSX, but I agree with you on all points. VLC is good for streaming to/from, though. (i.e., transcoding on-the-fly)
- Hello1024, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7VLC on windows vista doesn't use the new kernel media path features which are mainly for DRM, but that also means it doesn't get the same realtime priority when playing audio/video, so it seems pretty common for audio to skip when doing something cpu intensive, which is a shame.
- th3wiz4rd, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7VLC kicks ass, and it will play just about anything you throw at it -- which is why I've installed it on almost every computer I've ever touched. However, I'd recommend freeware progs like autogk or automkv for DVD encoding/converting (if you've never heard of them, google is your friend!).
- lemasney, on 07/02/2008, -1/+8vlc++ && miro++
- cwmather, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7I knew the options were there, but I've always just used AutoGK for encoding. I tried to encode an MP3 with it once. It was like a 4 minute song, but took up 3GB of data. Not quite sure what I did wrong there....
- linuxpwns207, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7VLC is very awesome. I have used it before and i love it. Wayyyy better than fast food....uhh i mean media player.
- dubloe7, on 07/03/2008, -0/+7yeah, for the very few times when I need to play a real media file, you have to love real alternative.
also, I didn't know VLC didn't play MIDIs, I guess I haven't had a reason to open a MIDI file in the past 5 years since I started using VLC. - armo, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6I always used to use the k-lite codec pack on Windows, I'm sure it had a dvd codec in it.
- Niz1, on 07/03/2008, -1/+7the skins suck, they arent implemented well , like the original works well when you maximise but when you use the skin it open a video overlay or something in a separate box so there no point in skinning it anyway.
- pHreaksYcle, on 07/03/2008, -1/+6If all of the programs are smaller, it adds up, and you can add as many GUIs to VLC as you wish, making it look like the Windows player or basically any other one.
- prisoner24601, on 07/03/2008, -2/+7"Oh, I get it. "IT LOOKS PRETTTTTTTY". Probably using Vista too, right?"
Okeedokeee... Backing away now without making eye contact... Clearly I've crossed the line from a "does anyone have an easy way to solve this problem?" discussion into a whole other realm.
Not sure how many more times I would have had to intentionally include complimentary comments about how much I respect VLC to have avoided stepping on this "philosophical third rail" here but apparently it was at least one too few. - bryanricker, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5Ok, just for the record, HandBrake by FAR trumps any attempt that any other program has made at ripping DVD's, yes, even VLC. The only reason I have VLC is to play the weird file types that no other program will.
- Ledjar, on 07/03/2008, -1/+6i've had vlc for years but didn't know it had a lot of these features.
- coollettuce, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5In regards to h.264:
CoreAVC > * - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5It doesn't play MIDI's either does it?
- adrames, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5I used to love VLC, until I started watching HD movies. The simplicity of MPC is amazing! It's my perfect video player. Only if they could port it to linux :(
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -4/+9Unfortunately, VLC really sucks under Vista, has HUGE problems trying to play any advanced audio (like say um DTS or higher), and kind of runs/looks/plays like an open source experiment. I like a LOT of things about VLC, but it fails enough key tests that it isn't ready for prime time as my #1 player. :(
- chrisn750, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4I agree with you there. I used core CoreAVC to play a 1080p rip on a 1.6ghz single core Celeron machine. This was not possible at all with CCCP or VLC. I tried.
- diggerphelps, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4Username fits user.
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4I wish there was MPC for Macs :(
- vpshockwave, on 07/03/2008, -9/+14Media player has a far better GUI, and it COMES with windows. It opens ALL files with my standard CCCP codec pack installed.
And if you're using VLC because it's smaller, buy a new ***** hard drive. Who the ***** cares about a few more megs? - Snowknight26, on 07/03/2008, -2/+6ffmpeg > all
- KaiUno, on 07/03/2008, -1/+5Don't be a dick, Hybred1234. Maybe he wants to use Media Center, what do you care? I've used VLC, I didn't like it. I went back to Media Player Classic for all my needs. Just grab yourself the latest Combined Comunity Codec Pack (cccp) and you're good to go.
Oh, and I'm using Vista. And for your information, it does dvd playback out of the box. - inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+4those of you hating on VLC's ugly interface, you can download skins from their site.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/skins.php - Tyrghast, on 07/03/2008, -2/+5I use VLC for all my video needs. It will play anything.
- renegadeafk, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3Wow I had no idea vlc could even rip dvd's
- jsd8cc, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3No decent OSD in fullscreen mode sucks.
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