VLC is, by far, the best video player available, and best of all it just so happens to be a free and open source, cross-platform program. A couple years ago I downloaded and started using VLC Player for all my video viewing needs. I haven’t downloaded a new codec or updated since. If you have a movie or video file that you can’t play, chances are that VLC will play it. I had old home videos that didn’t work on my old computer for years and they loaded right up with VLC. It is a simple, non-intrusive program that cleanly installs all the necessary files to play virtually any media file that has audio or video all in one shot. It’s fast and has all types of support for different media types and audio/video functions. It’s the only video player i use and it’s the only one i suggest to friends. It’s a beautiful thing knowing that you can say, "yeah, that’ll play on my computer".
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If you’re looking for a particular function or type of media file, here are some specs:
Video Decoders (This is basically what file types it can play): MPEG-1/2, DIVX (1/2/3), MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.264, Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime), DV, Cinepak, Theora (alpha 3), H.263 / H.263i, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1
Input Formats: MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3), ID3 tags, AVI, ASF/WMV/WMA, MP4/MOV/3GP, OGG/OGM/Annodex, Matroska (MKV), WAV (incuding DTS), Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52, Raw DV, FLAC, FLV (Flash), Standard MIDI, Creative™ Voice
Input Media: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, TCP/RTP Unicast, DCCP/RTP Unicast, File, DVD, VCD, SVCD, Audio CD (without DTS), DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV), MPEG encoder, Video acquisition
Did it work for any of your old files? Let me know what you think about it.
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June 17th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I really love VLC. But it really has some problems with manual seek in many .flv s. And also, it fails to play many .rms. GOM is a pretty good alternative, though contrary to your title, it often asks for codecs even for MP3s. You got anything to say about that (VLC’s failure with rms and flvs)?
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August 11th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Just try KLCodec + RealALT, very easy and more powerfull to play all AV formats !!
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August 29th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
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September 6th, 2009 at 7:39 am
If only VLC was more portable for devices such as MP3/MP4 players. Of course, that isn’t VLCs fault.
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September 28th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
VLC is really a good Player, but sometimes I see it in adware markets like zangocash.
Maybe because it’s open source and they can add an adware and republish it but I’m prefer don’t try it.
October 6th, 2009 at 2:10 am
I use VLC for like 3 years now and i haven´t seen an better video program until now.
@ comment nr 1. well i don´t have had any problems with playing flv-files yet. (nearly) everything is working fine with VLC.
one good thing about vlc is, that it plays even “broken” video-files where other players would just give out an error message.
October 17th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
“media player codec pack” this is what I use for codec if I am using my windows media player.
Now i have try VLC!
thanks for sharing it.
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