VLC Media PLayer

Amongst the must-have software on any given computer, multimedia players make the topic of many discussions. Some users prefer classic yet up-to-date players such as Windows Media Player, while the more 

adventurous bunch constantly look for performance and a vast array of supported formats.VLC media player screenshot 7
VLC media player is one of the first options when it comes to picking your favorite multimedia player. It is, by definition, an application that supports virtually all formats, regardless of their audio or video nature.

The software comes with some configuration steps straight from the installer, so you can already configure which files you want VLC to handle. The interface perfectly matches the idea behind this product: a simple GUI wrapped around a very powerful application. Although the interface is nothing special, it’s excellent for those who just want to open multimedia files without wasting their time.

For those of you that desire a fancier interface, VLC media player provides skin support and a various selection available on the developers’ website. And if simplicity isn’t exactly the kind of thing that fits you, just enter the settings menu and you might change your mind a little bit. VLC media player has tons of options, not only related to the visual appearance, but also to configure its functionality.

The program also display a wide variety of information regarding the currently opened files. The available plugins further enhance the experience of using an already comprehensive application. VLC media player packs conversion and streaming capabilities alongside video and audio capture. It also supports HTTP, RTP, MMS and RTSP stream playback.

You can further enhance your video and audio streams by accessing the available Adjustments and Effects panel. The selection will provide users with a 12-band audio equalizer and presets as well as a Spatializer for better acoustics according to your room dimensions.

On the video side, the selection of effects goes beyond basic - you can choose between  crop, color fun, image modification, AtmoLight, logo or more advanced filter controls. In addition , you will be given the ability to perform synchronizations of audio / subtitles and video streams.

All in all, VLC is one of the best multimedia players you can get. It comes with a configurable interface, excellent functionality, ease of use and it supports any audio / video format. This is definitely a keeper.

VLC media player description
Here are some key features of "VLC media player":

New in VLC 2.0 "Twoflower":
· faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open HD and 10bits codecs
· new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters
· new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental)
· reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use

Input media:
· UDP/RTP Unicast
· UDP/RTP Multicast
· HTTP / FTP
· MMS
· TCP/RTP Unicast
· File
· DVD Video
· Video CD / VCD
· SVCD
· Audio CD (no DTS-CD)
· DVB (Satellite,
· Digital TV, Cable TV)
· MPEG encoder

Input formats:
· MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)
· AVI
· ASF / WMV / WMA
· MP4 / MOV / 3GP
· OGG / OGM / Annodex
· Matroska (MKV)
· Real
· WAV (including DTS)
· Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52
· Raw DV
· FLAC
· FLV (Flash)
· MXF
· Nut
· Standard MIDI / SMF
· Creative Voice

Video formats:
· MPEG-1/2
· DIVX (1/2/3)
· MPEG-4 ASP, DivX 4/5/6, XviD, 3ivX D4
· H.261
· H.263 / H.263i
· H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC
· Cinepak
· Theora
· Dirac / VC-2
· MJPEG (A/B)
· WMV 1/2
· WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1
· Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
· DV (Digital Video)
· On2 VP3/VP5/VP6
· Indeo Video v3 (IV32)
· Real Video 1/2
· Real Video 3/4

Audio formats:
· MPEG Layer 1/2
· MP3 - MPEG Layer 3
· AAC - MPEG-4 part3
· Vorbis
· AC3 - A/52 (Dolby Digital)
· E-AC-3 (Dolby Digital Plus)
· MLP / TrueHD">3
· DTS
· WMA 1/2
· WMA 3
· FLAC
· ALAC
· Speex
· Musepack / MPC
· ATRAC 3
· Wavpack
· Mod (.s3m, .it, .mod)
· TrueAudio (TTA)
· APE (Monkey Audio)
· Real Audio 2
· Alaw/µlaw
· AMR (3GPP)
· MIDI 3
· LPCM
· ADPCM
· QCELP
· DV Audio
· QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)
· MACE

Subtitles:
· DVD
· Text files (MicroDVD,
· SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer)
· Vobsub
· Universal Subtitle Format (USF)
· SVCD / CVD
· DVB
· OGM
· CMML
· Kate

Tags:
· ID3 tags
· APEv2
· Vorbis comment

Video Filters:
· Deinterlace
· Cropping
· Image wall
· Image adjust
· Rotate/Mirror
· Logo overlay
· Magnification
· Image distortion
· Bluescreen
· RSS/Atom feeds

Audio Filters:
· Visualization effects
· Equalizer

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).

Video filters:
· Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform

<<<back



0 comments:

Post a Comment