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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. VLC can also convert, capture/record and be used as a server to stream video.
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Latest version: 2.0.1 (March 19, 2012) Download sites: Visit developer's site More download options: Download portable version (direct link) Supported operating systems: Windows Mac OS Linux
More information and other downloads: Download VLC Blu-ray plugin here, it allows to you watch encrypted blu-rays directly with VLC 2.0+. Download nightly builds here: http://nightlies.videolan.org/ Download IPTV Recorder here, it is an add-on for VLC media player with the intention to simplify timed recording of IPTV media streams. Sections/Browse similar tools: Linux video tools, MacOS video tools, Video Players, Video Streaming |
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Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1: View full changelog -------------------------------- Access: * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval * fix the samba module compilation * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives Codecs: * Support for MXPEG files * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams Demuxers: * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support * Fix a crash when seeking in mka * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support Muxers: * Fix ogm header creation Audio filters: * limit spatializer filter distortions * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module Audio output: * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA. * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection. The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default). * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X Video filters: * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform Mac OS X interface: * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window * allow to hide the sidebar * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen * noticebly faster launch time * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes * improve track synchronization panel * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu Qt interface: * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts Skins interface: * fix for menus display * Addition of $R to display current playback speed * documentation update Web interface: * fix mobiles display for remote control mode * support for .drc and .3ga extensions Service discovery: * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK * Update Jamendo selections Miscellaneous: * fix DBus crash * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc * fix a crash on VLM close Security: * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026) * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144) * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201) * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202) Translations: * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations All features / Full description: VIDEO
Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU. Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits. New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2. New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters. New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm. AUDIO New resamplers for higher quality audio. New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters. Simplification of the audio core for faster processing. New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2. FORMATS Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM. Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs. Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp... Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support. CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding. INPUT AND DEVICES Experimental support for BluRay discs: - Menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon). - AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons. Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices. Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH. FOR MAC USERS Completely new, single window interface: - Available in 2 colors: Lion grey and QTX black. - Extensions support and better Lion integration. Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules. Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!). FOR ANIME FANS Vastly improved MKV demuxer. Rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files support. Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV. Rewritten seeking support in cue files. Various ASS subtitles improvements. FOR PROFESSIONAL USERS Support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra. Support for Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits. Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608. SDI and HD-SDI card support for input on Linux. New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one. FOR DEVELOPERS libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+. New libVLC examples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones. New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances. Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players. VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.
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VLC has always been slow but it got worse. 1.0 would play 1080P .mp4 on my laptop without issues now it skips and has visual glitches. Also the bookmark feature has disappeared. Still plays almost every format. I have not tested for the dvd playing issues or the color of subtitles in .mkv that I have had in the past.
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I'm a big fan of VLC player, however, the new version has some serious bugs. I tried to open a folder of .flv files. While browsing through the folder, the program would lock up. When I closed the program, and tried again, the same problem. Eventually my whole computer locked up. I went to task manager, and although no applications were running, under "processes" there were a couple of vlc player processes working simultaneously. Once I ended those processes, things returned to normal. I tried it again with the same bugs. I then deleted 2.00 and returned to version 1.11 and everything worked normally. I hope the bug is worked out. I scored the "functionality" and "overall" score very low, however, the old version 1.11 would get high scores. A fix with a "2.01" version would make me a happy camper.
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Was great until v. 1.0. Then started crashing like crazy. On v. 2.0 now and it still crashes regularly. A long time and still no fix in site. No other player crashes with this frequency on my W7 machine. Pretty much if I touch it while a video is playing, it goes away.
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still no resume support.otherwise good player.
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I really WANT to like this program. And 2.0 is nicer. The interface and sub handling are definitely better. But ... I played an unencoded rip of one of my DVDs. It still doesn't play it smoothly. Version 1.05 or whatever will, but the streaming is no longer secure. I tried some files that play fine in SMPlayer and didn't in the previous VLC. They don't in 2.0 either. There still doesn't seem to be any ASIO/Wasapi support. Come on people. If it had that I'd definitely use it as an audio player. Or if I were running Linux or Mac OS. They don't have that nasty habit Windows has of always wanting to resample audio. I wish SMPlayer had an interface as good as this does. It's more like older versions of VLC. But it still plays a wider variety of videos better, and the video filters are still MUCH better. I don't dislike VLC enough to bother uninstalling it but I don't think I`ll be using it any more often than the previous version. Which is, increasingly, not much.
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Xvids and ISOs (and everything else) work fine under VLC 2.0.0 for me. Check your system before you starting blaming the software. Love this app!
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Looks like V2 is a work in progress. Doesn't decode Xvid video stream, but audio is okay. Some ISO files don't start when dragged to the interface. So far no problems with Matroska. No crashes.
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Mac version 2.0.0 on Snow Leo (10.6.8) - no problems. Still doesn't do a good job of transcoding videos but there are many other tools that do that quite well (like Handbrake, MP4Tools, Submerge, QT Pro Player). One major flaw: Name of video in playlist window seems to be taken from metadata so, if you're comparing two different videos (let's say, one named MyVideo.AVI and another named MyVideo.MP4 in the filesystem), their names in the playlist will be identical if their metadata names are identical. You will, therefore, need to keep the "Media Information" window open so you can click and drag on the "Location" field so you can see the actual file name. PITA. Solution: Provide a preference that permits display of the filename instead of the metadata name in the Playlist.
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Clicking on most video files crashes it. Starts playing after clicking on it again (sometimes repeatedly). Once it starts playing, there is no problem. This is the installed version. Downloaded standalone version. Will try and report.
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Compared to my old favorite MPC-HC, and the new PotPlayer, I now prefer good ol' VLC because: - It supports playing Windows Media Center recordings (.wtv) properly, including those flagged as "protected" (PotPlayer plays my digital tuner recordings with the audio out of sync; MPC-HC can't play "protected" recordings). - It can properly play all formats faster when want to (MPC-HC can't play .wtv faster, e.g.). - It time-stretches the audio properly when playing faster (PotPlayer causes a kind of reverb effect; MPC-HC still has no time-stretch at all). Other than the above, all the other handy features are cool. I did run into some quirkages, though: - For some reason, the playback speed setting default became 0.90x instead of 1.00x. I found how to fix it, though, by going into the "vlcrc" settings file and changing it there. - If "post processing" is activated, it seems to cancel out deinterlacing. I was wondering why the picture quality seemed especially bad on some files, so I dug around and found disabling the post-processing filter actually improved things. And will there every by a 64-bit version?!
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Thanks for the tip, but there's a bit more to this. First of all, there's been a bit of discussion on the Kaspersky forum indicating you're correct in saying it's a false positive. http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=20 ... try1623021 However, one of the posters there pointed out that on the VLC site itself, there are some indications that the download really is infected: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=89196 Why / How are you 100% sure that it's a false positive? 0 Oh, and as for "freaking out", as the saying goes, "only the paranoid survive". ;-) Anyway, thanks very much for your input and have a nice weekend.
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false positives happen. don't freak out and go nuts next time. the installer is clean.
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I downloaded the latest version from Source Forge and installed it on my XP SP3 IBM machine. Then my anti-virus program, Kaspersky Internet Security, detected a Trojan in it and said a "special procedure" was needed to eradicate it. The "special procedure" completely screwed up my machine. Fortunately I was able to find a Restore Point that got the machine working again, but I had to uninstall and re-install Kaspersky. I know there's apparently a security problem in VLC 1.1.7 (http://www.videolan.org/news.html), but I think I'm going to wait awhile before re-installing the new VLC. Too bad. It's a great viewer.
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Just a "must have". Also able to record stream and convert between file formats.
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This player is doing exactly what is expected: plays all kinds of files, like avi or mkv without a problem. ease od use and respecting aspect ratio of the move. Can't ask for anything more.
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V.1.1.4 seems to have solved the inability to play a dvd from a folder on a HD, introduced in v.1.1.2 (crash) and sustained in v.1.1.3 (no action at all). Now works fine.
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With VLC crashing, the inability to play a DVD folder from my hard drive, and the noticeable slowdown in execution from previous releases, I've switched to KMPlayer until VLC becomes more stable.
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V.1.1.2 crashed immediately if I tried to play a DVD from a folder (and sent a crash message to Videolan), so I returned to v.1.1.1 and awaited v.1.1.3. Here came v.1.1.3: It doesn't crash immediately, but does NOTHING when you select a DVD from a folder. Just sits there. No crash report. So, it's back to v.1.1.1 and hope v.1.1.4 works . . . or v.1.1.5 or v.1.1.6 or . . .
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Plays most all formats, BUT crashes instantly when I try to play a DVD ripped to a folder on my HD. V. 1.1.1 and earlier did not have this problem on my computer. A reinstall made no difference. Will revert to 1.1.1 and cautiously test upgrades past 1.1.2 to see if this problem is fixed.
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This was one of my favorite most dependable players prior to v. 1.0. Anything after v. 1.05 is totally useless for me. It looked as though PGS subtitles would finally be supported in a software player. But as soon as you touch this thing, it crashes. I'll check it out again maybe around v. 1.5. I'm just tired of watching it rebuild the font cache every time I reinstall trying to get it to work. Looks like a great player has gone by the wayside.
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This version of vlc m.p. is better than ANY media player I have ever used. I am very reluctant to even upgrade because of possible negative changes that may occur.I cannot fathom anyone complaining at all about this product. The interface is very simple and can be modified to fit per user tasks. It records, takes snapshots, and covers most,(I can't say all because I need only use a few different formats)video formats, is FREE!, with FREE! upgrades, and you can actually adjust audio and video flaws in lower quality videos, and add various video effects, and record the finished product. What more could anyone ask for out of a media player,with cost OR free? While some people are spending all their viewing time worrying about "per-snickety" B.S., I am watching SUPERB quality videos the way I like to view them. Thank you VSO for the great service you have help to provide.....
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I see some, well a lot of negatives with other users ... but for me it has been great. The color adjustments are really good, the volume change with mouse wheel, the ability to save playlists, easy change of audio and caption tracks ... well they're probably all easy - other players. It has cropping, zooming and aspect ratio settings which made a lot of difference on Woody Allen movies which are 16:9, I guess but don't appear in reg. letterbox. I need some info on this part of video ... anyway, I haven't experienced crashes on video or audio. I use it a lot, every day. XP SP3
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Did not pass go, it didn't work Found it, downloaded it, installed it. Tried using it to pay a DVD, it didn't work, just ended, and then I had a message that it had crashed. On investigating by looking on their forums, found a reference to the problem, and the bottom line from the developers was it's not our problem, take it elsewhere, we're not going to fix it. And other posts by the VLC team displayed the same arrogant attitude
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VLC player is better in Win7 than in WinXp because Win7 is much better at data transfer. But CPU Usage of MPC-Home Cinema is three times less than VLC player when playing HD Matroska files.
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Great but the dvd playback is still broken in many ways. Sometimes menu buttons are unelectable, sometimes menus are broken and the skip over FBI warning feature can't be turned off. However the player is very good and plays almost any file.
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