Attention, sons of Adam! VLC 1.0 has been released!
The fact of the matter is, I’ve always found mplayer to be the superior movie player, whether I was compiling my own copy back in high school, or using this Mac port; I don’t understand why VLC is so popular. Maybe someone out there can explain it to me?
That said, I look forward to trying it out.
VLC 2.0 will be out in 2015. I’ll wait and upgrade then.
Did they manage to get the volume control onto the main window yet?
Of course they did. With levels up to 200%.
Who needs volume control anyway?
It’s basically the popularity behind it that keep it alive, that and it plays everything people need it to. I know I personally started using it when WMP wasn’t able to play stuff any more and codecs were an issue. Downloading VLC was the fast approach to that problem. That and getting subtitles to work because Jet Li is the man and I gotsta to know what he’s saying. =)
The KMPLayer is even supeior that VLC…
I’ve serious troubles with the SPDIF output set of VLC, issue that is not present on the KMplayer or Media player classic.
Anyway, anything compares to mplayer.
I used kmplayer for a while, but it had image quality and sync issues that I couldn’t get around.
No way, Beckham is the best player…
I always wanted to crack this very poor joke :P
Kaka is the best player :)
VLC plays DVD’s without complaint and in dvd-simple mode i can loop my fav movie endlessly! And the streaming thing works ok too.
VLC is so reliable, and its no-nonsense unlike RMplayer, WMplayer etc – just straight to the point, it opens and plays the file. Also its extremely lite, not bloated like the afore mentioned players. Im trying out this MPlayer now mentioned in the article, it seems pretty good
Yea..I have to agree. Normally, I don’t necessarily follow what’s popular but VLC does a great job for freeware. I’ve been using it for a few years now and ,though, I wouldn’t suggest it for retail discs(DVD/CD),it works fantastic for compressed & HD containers(.mkv,.x264,xvid/divix,mp3,flac,etc)
I believe this new version answers the issues VLC had with HD/Blu-ray & Surround sound codecs & retail playback but I’m not 100% sure.
I use VLC mostly for the wide range of codecs that come with it, but also for the awesome hotkeys and features like audio delay and streaming and dead simple interface.
IMHO, VLC handled a lot of files that other players had issues with. I don’t think that’s the case now,but, the player is simple to use, works on all files/ with all codecs and is FREE. I definitely recommend this software to anyone – with a PC as I don’t use Macs.
[Not that there is anything wrong with Mac]