VLC
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.
Tags: video , movies , mediaplayer , MPEG1 , mp4 , m4v



42 Opinions:
0.9.2 and 0.9.3 still slow and choppy for me on Intel Mac. Going back to 0.8.6 since the Mac version already had the fullscreen controls builtin (which would be a reason for me to upgrade on Windows).
Nevertheless, great app.
0.92 is extremely laggish in Power PC, so I guess PPC users will have to be stuck on previous versions. Bad luck!
the newest version seems to have problems with mkv files...
VLC - the definition of playing media
It's spiffing, but it doesn't play nice with 1080p Matroska videos on a fully pimped Leopard based MacBook Pro. WTF?
This is what QuickTime should be. Period
Simply the most singularly-useful media playing app out there - I think both on Windows and on the Mac.
Some users complain of bugs but personally I have had few issues - all of which were solved using the method listed in the post Below :)
It also has a tonne of extra features that hardly anyone seems to stumble across - i seem to find a new use for VLC every few weeks! (see the Streaming/Exporting Wizard for some ideas)
Thanks VideoLAN!
If any of you get the following error at launch:
"main: You cannot run the MacOS X module as an extra interface. Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file."
you're not alone (there are multiple threads about this on the vlc forums - most of them unanswered).
Well the answer is that the pref files sometimes get corrupted during upgrades/updates (I've had the error ever since I upgraded to 0.8.6.c).
So you have to delete the VLC folder and the org.videolan.vlc.plist from ~/Library/Preferences.
Now it should run as normal...no more error pop-ups on launch (new uncorrupted prefs will be created when run again)
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