VLC media player
January 1, 2007 – 9:53 pmOne software i’ve started using and it’s great. Simple and does it all. 
The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GPL. It is a highly portable multimedia player, encoder and streamer that supports many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs and various streaming protocols.
It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats.
The last version of VLC 0.8.6 as already about 3,100,000 downloads.
Available for many OS like:
# Windows
# Mac OS X
# Linux
Oficial page: http://www.videolan.org/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlc
For Ubuntu
If you have Ubuntu, simply type the next sentence to install it.
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-* mozilla-plugin-vlc
3 Responses to “VLC media player”
I also use it, but in windows, plays everything i want.
=)
By ExP on Jan 3, 2007
When using ubuntu and trying to play video using VLC I just get ‘no video’. I read somewhere this was fixed in 7.04?
By Peter Jones on Jan 3, 2007
That is strage, do you have the codecs installed?
I have the gstreamer, libxine-extracodecs and w32codecs packages installed and have no problems.
By iGama on Jan 3, 2007