VideoLAN Client (opensource freeware)

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VideoLAN Client
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) 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.

Download: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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VideoLAN Client 0.8.5:

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) 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.

Download: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[burnett2000]

Hehe,

I recently got notice of this tool.
It helps a lot viewing varios types of video-files. But no >>Playlist<<-function!? And I have problems with skins.
My brother, who is a MAC-user, can't do without it anymore!
Only "Real" still defies me.

cu Burnett

[VuDu]

Ctrl+P for playlist

[burnett2000]

Hm. Not the way I expected that to work. But thanks.

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VLC 0.8.6 Final has been Released!

Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
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Playlist:
* Shoutcast TV listings support

Input:
* Support for RTSP authentication
* Support for adding subtitles on the fly
* Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
* ATSC support for DVB input
* Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
* Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
* Improved support for Flash Video files

Decoders:
* Native WMV9/VC-1 support
* WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
* VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
* The True Audio Lossless codec support
* WavPack support
* Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
* Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
* Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles

Video output:
* Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
* Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista
* Improved libcaca support

Interfaces:
* All
* New hotkeys for crop and zoom
* Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
* Windows
* Systray support in skins
* OS X
* Support for Apple Remote control
* Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
* New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
* right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
* Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
* Linux
* Notifications using notification-daemon

Windows port:
* Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
Windows 9x/ME users:
- Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
- Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/glob ... ounce.mspx
Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
C:\Windows\System
* Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
* Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)

Localization:
* Add Czech
* Add Slovak
* Add Malay
* Add Slovenian

Developers:
* Updates to the libvlc API
* Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins

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VLC 0.8.6a has been Released!

Download: http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... -win32.exe
MD5: http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... 32.exe.md5

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VLC 0.8.6b has been Released!

Download: http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... -win32.exe
MD5: http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/video ... 32.exe.md5