VLC, the best video player of all time
VLC media player is the essential video and audio player. Free, Open Source and easy, it will play all your files, regardless of format.
VLC, the Swiss Army knife video
VLC media player comes to the rescue and arises Open Source Swiss Army knife, able to digest the majority of existing formats and reducing to almost nothing complex installations and other upgrades of all kinds.
The new
Version 2 of the VLC media player boasts a video renderer rewritten. Another advanced technique: video player shoots now part of multi-core systems, especially for decoding H.264, VP3 / Theora or JPEG2000. Since version 2.0 "Twoflower" VLC also offers a redesigned interface with all the options in a single window. You can even choose the color of the interface of VLC Media Player: QuickTime rather black or gray OS X Lion?
Functions well thought
The full screen mode allows control of the video through a revealing layer controls the passage of the mouse or via shortcuts thoughtful.
The list of possible settings and preferences is impressive.
VLC knows everything
VLC can do everything from streaming playlist management, color filters sound processing. Rarely has a video playback software has been so complete.
The only video player you need
This is another strength of VLC. Open Source software has a pool of developers frenzy incredible. The updates are numerous and stick closer to the changing world of the video because you do not go fishing for codecs. It can even play videos incomplete. VLC is suddenly available on all platforms, skinable, and open to all new codecs and technologies that appear. No limitation "strategic" or marketing. Happiness, free version. Ultra-versatile, powerful, focusing on the essentials, the VLC player performance with excellent performance but it has upgrade with new
Recent Changes
Bugfixes
Fixes security holes
Better support for Growl
Formats supported by VLC media player3GP, AIFF, ASF, AVI, FLAC, FLV, MKV, MOV (QuickTime), MP4, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), NUT, Ogg, Ogg Media, Raw audio, Raw DV, Wav
3ivx, Cinepak, DivX, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc..
Most
Free
Number of supported formats
Good keyboard shortcuts
Discrete
Look improved since version 2.0.0
Cons
Few skins available
