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VLC Media Player

Submitted by todd on Tue, 2006-12-19 23:18

When I bought my Mac mini I had a couple of video files I had created under Microsoft Windows that did not play on the Mac. More recently, when I wiped Windows XP Home Edition off of my PC and installed Windows XP Media Center Edition in its place, I found that I couldn't play commercial DVDs on the system because Media Center did not include the necessary CODECs.

In both cases, I turned to the Open Source...

VLC Media Player

...to quickly get running (I have yet to bother to look for CODECs for Windows Media Center Edition) to play my videos.

VLC has been ported to Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. There is even an experimental port for the Pocket PC. Version 0.8.6 was just released on December 10.


UPDATE 2006.01.02: eWeek: VLC Media Player Bug Bites at Apple VideoLAN is already working on a patch. Former Apple engineer Landon Fuller has an unofficial patch available as part of his plan to ship runtime fixes for every flaw released in the MoAB.

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