VLC Media Player 0.8

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 1432 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  12,033,600

• Requirements:

  Windows(All)

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  November 03, 2004

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version VLC Media Player 0.9.4 VLC Media Player 0.9.2 VLC Media Player 0.8.6h VLC Media Player 0.8.6f VLC Media Player 0.8.6e VLC Media Player 0.8.6d VLC Media Player 0.8.6c VLC Media Player 0.8.6b VLC Media Player 0.8.6 VLC Media Player 0.8.5 VLC Media Player 0.8.4a VLC Media Player 0.8.2 VLC Media Player 0.8.1 VLC Media Player 0.8 VLC Media Player 0.7.2 VLC Media Player 0.7.1

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Publisher's description of VLC Media Player 0.8

From VideoLAN Project:

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

New features in 0.8.0 include: faster and more flexible input layer, improved transcoding, a plugins cache to speedup VLC startup time, vastly improved subtitles, OSD and DVD support, Windows Media Video 3 support under Windows, Multipart JPEG webcam support, an audio equalizer, and much more. For a full list of changes see here.

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Editor's review of VLC Media Player 0.8

• 4.0 stars

• "Find a player for your video files"

When it comes to video files, nothing is ever as easy as it should be. Thankfully, VLC Media Player offers a one-stop solution for the file-format problem. The program supports playback of OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, DivX, DVD, and a whole slew of other file types. In addition, it also can function as a streaming media server. Because of its open-source foundation, VLC Media Player evolves quickly, with new features and fixes released frequently. Though the interface varies from platform to platform, the sparseness of the Windows version leaves plenty to be desired. The skinned mode perks things up slightly, but the program seems to suffer from unpredictable behavior when skinned. Also, the basic task of opening a file is far more confusing than it should be; the program gives you several options, including the head-scratching Quick Open File. Overall, though, VLC Media Player is a must-have application for its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it.

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