VCL 1.0.0 or “Golden eye”

If you want your download stuff especifically videos with other extension that doesnt play on the other player, well this is the answer in your needs. VideoLAN’s VLC media player, is arguably the world’s best media player, its proven and tested and it has a lot of impressive replys when i read it on forums and over 78 million who downloads.

One of the amazing things about VLC is that it can play anything that you’ve ever even thought about playing. That random media format that need a certain requirement or a codecs–VLC likely plays it, while Windows Media, Apple QuickTime, etc. likely will not.

Here are few of its screenshots:

This is,in part a natural result of VLC’s open-source heritage. Licensed under General Public License(GNU), VLC attracts a diverse array of developers with disparate media interests. Those interest tranlate into a media player that really can play every obscure media format I’ve ever thrown at it.

Some features now available in VLC 1.0.0:

• Live recording
• Instant pausing and frame-by-frame support
• Finer speed controls
• New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
• New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, …) and major improvements in many formats
• New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder
• Video scaling in full screen
• RTSP Trickplay support
• Zipped file playback
• Customizable toolbars
• Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface
• Better integration in Gtk environments
• MTP devices on Linux
• AirTunes streaming

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various streaming protocols without external codec program. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC can play:

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
• DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
• From satellite cards (DVB-S)
• Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
• From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

Overall, this software can satisfy the utmost user because of its ability to open just about any type of video file you throw at it.

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