Roman Mikulec Myp 4

Introduction: Name: VLC Media player Developer : VideoLAN Project Release: 1 February 2001 Version: VLC Player 1.0.3 (30 September, 2009) Supported operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, BeOS, Syllable, BSD, MorphOS, Solaris, Sharp Zaurus License: GNU General Public License v2 or later Available in : Multilingual Price: It is free

Description: VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats from files, physical media, TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols. It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn't need any external codec, program or codec to work.

• VLC media player for most people is their favourite player just because it can play all the formats they need to play. But most of them don’t realize that it has a lot more functions than that.

- 1 - Roman Mikulec Myp 4 • VLC includes a basic DVD ripper. If you want a DVD rip with great quality, you should certainly use a better DVD ripper, but you can still get a decent quality DVD rip from VLC. • VLC can also record videos from your playback. • VLC can easily play RAR files, which means that if you have a video zipped in different RAR files you can just start the first one and VLC will do the rest. It will automatically load the other parts and play it as one whole video. • Through VLC you can also listen to online radio. You can choose from hundreds of stations. • Another interesting function is the conversion of video and audio files into a different format. • And yet another function is downloading youtube or other online videos off the internet. • VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. • VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as ASCII art. • VLC media player can display the playing video as the desktop wallpaper, like Windows Dream Scene, but this feature is not currently available on Linux.

Skins:

There are a lot of different skins to be downloaded.

Supported Formats

VLC can read several formats, depending on the operating system VLC is running on.

Input UDP/RTP unicast or multicast, HTTP, FTP, MMS, RTSP, RTMP, , VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB, Video acquisition (via V4l and DirectShow), RSS/Atom Feeds, and from files stored on the user's computer. Container formats

- 2 - Roman Mikulec Myp 4 3GP, ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid/.midi), QuickTime, MP4, , OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB. Video formats , Dirac, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, , 3, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, RealVideo 3&4, Sorenson (thus enabling direct playback of the modified Sorenson H.263 encoded videos downloaded from YouTube), , VC-1, VP5, VP6, WMV. DVD, SVCD, DVB, OGM, SubStation Alpha, SubRip, Advanced SubStation Alpha, MPEG-4 Timed Text, Text file, Vobsub, MPL2, Teletext. Audio formats AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR, DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, MACE, Mod, MP3, PLS, QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio, , Screamtracker 3/S3M, TTA, , WavPack, WMA.

Output formats for streaming/encoding

VLC can transcode into several formats depending on the operating system.

Container formats

ASF, AVI, FLV, Fraps, MP4, Ogg, Wav, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), MPJPEG, FLAC, MOV Video formats H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, VP5, VP6, Theora, DV Audio formats AAC, AC3, DV Audio, FLAC, MP3, Speex, Vorbis Streaming protocols UDP, HTTP, RTP, RTSP, MMS, File

Screenshots:

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Strengths/ weaknesses I think that VLC has no weaknesses; at least I haven’t found any. Maybe the only one, but I don’t think is such a problem, is that you can’t control it (play, pause, stop) while you have the window minimized. You have to restore it to be able to control things. But on the other hand there is a lot of strengths. For example VLC supports most formats, is easy to control, but the most important, it is very small. It only has around 17 Mb, so it can easily be downloaded and doesn’t take much space. Another good thing about VLC is that once you download it, no additional codecs or programs are needed for it to run easily.

My opinion and my experience with VLC My only experience with this media player is from watching movies, I don’t use it for anything else, even though it has a lot of functions.

My opinion on VLC is that it is a very good program for watching film or listening to music. It has lots of other great functions, but I only use the two mentioned. I like it very much because, all the movies I download cannot be played in the as they are in a format that is not supported. So I needed another program and so I downloaded VLC. I am very satisfied with it as it can play anything I try.

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