Play pretty much any video file with VLC
February 5, 2008
VLC, in my opinion, is one of those programs that needs to be installed on every machine. I mean, on every machine you’d like to watch movies on. Which is easy because it works on Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux.
This program plays pretty much any video format you want, and audio files but it isn’t the perfect choice for your music management app. You can easily play a DVD, VCD, SVCD, AVI, OGG, MKV, MOV, 3GP, FLAC, FLV, and much more. It doesn’t play Real’s format since it is proprietary and Apple must be keeping it a tight secret.
VLC even lets you stream media, take screenshots of the movie, play around with the subtitle settings and do a bunch of other tweaking you want.
Download it here and get your portable apps version here.
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Posted in Audio and Video, CD and DVD
Using computers since the early 90s. Old timer with windows, more recently converted to Linux.
February 5th, 2008 at 11:01 am
I found your site on google blog search and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. Just added your RSS feed to my feed reader. Look forward to reading more from you.
- Sue.
February 15th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Thanks Sue! Nice to hear good words, gives us more incentive to write and share some more very nice open source goodies.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:54 pm
[...] VLC has just came out with a bug-fix new release, v 0.8.6f. From the site, the update includes: “VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec. This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.” [...]