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VLC PLAYER
VLC 1.0.3 is available now. It was released on 31-10-2009. It is one of the best players available for free to play audio and video files.
It supports many file formats, wide range of video and audio formats. This means it will not say sorry cannot play this file please download and install necessary codecs. You may have been experiencing this type of frustration with some well known media players. Formats supported by the latest player include OGG, MP2, MP3, MP4, and DivX.
The interface of VLC looks very simple. You may easily underestimate its power by its look. The specialty of VLC player is its versatility. It supports subtitles. Most video players do not have that capacity. It can play FLV files down loaded from web. Some famous users of FLV video format are Google Video, Yahoo! Video, and You Tube. High definition codecs like AES3, Raw Dirac and various streaming protocols have been added in the latest version.
It is very compact despite having all the codecs in its package. The download file size of the windows version of VLC 1.0.3 is just 17.19 MB.
The latest version supports Windows 2000 and later only. That means if you are using Windows 95, 98, and ME you have to be contend with VLC 0.8.6.
It has a portable version also. (You can play the video files without installing the software.)
Now VLC is compatible with Windows 7. This is an important improvement in the latest version. There have been problems in the video quality in the previous version (1.0.2) when it was used in Windows 7.
Another specialty of VLC is it is a multi platform player. Latest version is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, Solaris and Sharp Zaurus.
You can download the precompiled version or source code for your OS from this page http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
VLC has few drawbacks also.
Some say you have a lot of options. Yes at first it looks very complex. Play list management is not intuitive.
Finally the interface is not attractive.
If you are the one who appreciate performance not the looks then try VLC.
You will start loving its simplicity.