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VLC Media Player 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.
What's New
Version 2.0.1:
- Support for MxPEG files and streams
- New features in the Mac OS X interface for more customization.
- Numerous fixes in the Qt, the Mac OS and the skins interfaces.
- Fixes for HTTP Live Streaming, CDDB, UDP/RTP support.
- Security issues SA-1201 and SA-1202.
- Limited support for Bluray discs menus.
- Numerous fixes for MKV support.
- Fix for splitted RAR files playback.
- Numerous fixes for more than 120 bugs.
- Codec and 3rd party libraries security updates.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
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| Downloads:2,910,599 |
| Version Downloads:51,173 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Video |
| License:Free |
| Date:19 Mar 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price:Free |
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VLC Media Player 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.
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MFWillsVT reviewed on 18 May 2012
If a pref was included to suppress that, it would be golden.
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http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/vlc-2.0.0-x86_64-20120505-0316.zip
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Pwned reviewed on 26 Apr 2012
Well, I love this software. I gotta say it. It plays and plows through anything, even incomplete files as best it can and plays any format of video I've ever thrown at it.
There are 3 things that drive me crazy about this new version though:
1) How did the developers not pay attention to one of the biggest gripes from everyone? PLEASE TURN THE SUBTITLES OFF BY DEFAULT! There's really no excuse for this. There's no way to even change this to the default!
2) If I've opened a movie and then open another, instead of opening the new movie in front (like almost any file does when you open it), it opens it hidden in the background so you have to click on the VLC icon in the dock to bring it forward. Really annoying.
3) In the old version, in non-fullscreen view, on the controller there used to be 2 sets of arrows—one would skip to the next movie, the other would skip 10 seconds ahead. Now the 10 second ahead button is only in fullscreen view. I really miss this.
I'm generally disappointed with the usability—it's a step backward that way, but still love the app.
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OK, reading down a few pages further, I saw someone else had an issue with #2 (double-clicking a second video after the first one's closed opens the file in the background). The fix to set preferences not to play video in the main window works just fine.
As for #1, does anyone know how to turn subtitles off by default? And anyone know anything about #3?
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#2 that's a bug left over in 2.0.1. It will be fixed in 2.0.2, which will be available shortly.
#3 you can keep the mouse button pressed on the current buttons to skip through the movie similar to the controls in iTunes.
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R33c3 reviewed on 23 Apr 2012
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Sir-Sixty-Nine reviewed on 16 Apr 2012
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Having not really used it for the past few years, I've once again made VLC my default player for several types of media. Been having serious issues with all variants of MPlayer lately — specifically audio and video keep falling out of sync in x264-encoded MP4s (how many decades is it going to take for us to finally solve this persistent, annoying problem?!). VLC may be a cluttered mess, but at least it plays pretty much anything you throw at it without sync issues. VLC also tends to be more robust in seeking across all media types (MPlayer really struggles with WMV in particular, or any kind of file with a damaged index).
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Which kind of media input fives you the mentioned playback experience? Can we get a sample file to see what's going on?
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Greedyfranky reviewed on 09 Apr 2012
Top stuff!!
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However, it sucks tremendously that VLC lately wants to rebuilt some stupid font list every couple of days.
Developers! Please change this back to how it was!
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1) you installed additional fonts
2) you play mkv / Matroska files which include embedded fonts
1) should happen quite rarely
2) can't be fixed easily, since you probably want VLC to use the embedded fonts if you use files that include fonts..
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VCL crashes without any reason.
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Also crashed 2.0 at least once.
I'm sticking with 1.1.12.
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Preferences -> Interface
Deselect "Use the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion"
Deselect "Show video within the main window"
Preferences -> Video
Set the "Fullscreen Video Device"
Click Save and restart VLC.
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It sucks more CPU than before on my iMac G5 2.1 GHz, but the main problem is that the sound is all hatched making it totally unusable.
I was hoping for a better way to handle subtitles but they simply don't work anymore!
I'm wondering if anyone has tested it before at VLC, or do they click on a button to make it out of the Intel version, without checking anything? It's not even a beta version!!!
(I've trashed the preference, but no way... :-(
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If I remember right, Handbrake uses some of the VLC libraries for DVD decoding.
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Why doesn't the subtitle function ever get fixed? Whenever I choose "smaller" subtitles it still shows enormous subtitle, even after a restart. I don't know if there is another way to manually override the font size, if not, please fix this!
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The ppc version doesn't read .ts anymore!!! (no image at all)
As I use VLC mainly for playing those files, I'm stuck to 1.1.9... :-(
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(I'm on an iMac G5/10.5.8)
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Hurrah! :-D
mlarroyd rated on 11 May 2012
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bilalh rated on 07 May 2012
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bilalh rated on 07 May 2012
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TripHHH rated on 01 May 2012
ramon7 rated on 30 Apr 2012
CroftE rated on 19 Apr 2012
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MetroMrX rated on 14 Apr 2012
Dj.Piątas rated on 07 Apr 2012
Dj.Piątas rated on 07 Apr 2012
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TricTrac rated on 06 Apr 2012