http://www.videolan.org

the speed is incredible, i used to have 2-3 seconds between clicking a file and it opening and then it would hiccup for the first few seconds

2/19/2012 9:32:35 PM

So basically, it's like a good piece of software now.

2/19/2012 9:56:29 PM

yes well it was always better than windows media player

2/19/2012 9:58:11 PM

OMFG it's out

I wonder whether the plugin still sux

2/19/2012 10:07:57 PM

Quote :

"Linux Ask your favorite packager for VLC 2.0! "

2/19/2012 10:53:24 PM

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"So basically, it's like a good piece of software now."

What was wrong with it before?

Or I guess, what was better than it before?

2/19/2012 11:12:43 PM

Just trolling, guys. I've had it installed for years.

2/19/2012 11:24:23 PM

Quote :

"So basically, it's like a good piece of software now."

2/20/2012 12:29:40 AM

someone's upset that microsoft couldn't come up with something better even before it went 2.0

2/20/2012 12:51:32 AM

OHH

EMM

EFF

GEE

the plugin actually has freakin controls

2/20/2012 1:05:28 AM

Oh hey look, lewisje obsessing over something that .00001% of the population cares about.

Such a rare occurrence.

2/20/2012 1:10:18 AM

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"someone's upset that microsoft couldn't come up with something better even before it went 2.0"

I'd be jealous of Windows Media Player too if my media playback options were Quicktime and VLC.

ZoomPlayer used to be pretty awesome too, back when upscaling video with ffdshow was necessary.

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 1:21 AM. Reason : And for MP3s, Winamp used to really whip the llama's ass.]

2/20/2012 1:15:39 AM

I used to care about stupid stuff like this too, but then I started using Macs and now everything just works.

/half trolling, mostly true

2/20/2012 1:30:56 AM

^^^people who have VLC installed

and then suddenly see videos load in their browsers without so much as a play or pause button, let alone the ability to seek

and then figure out it's because they were using the VLC plugin

deffo care, I mean I've disabled the VLC plugin for years until today precisely for that reason

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 1:33 AM. Reason : lol@Macs "just working"

2/20/2012 1:32:50 AM

That's never happened to me at all.

But then again, I use Macs.

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 1:37 AM. Reason : On the real, I've been using VLC for years, and have no idea what this plugin you speak of is.]

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 1:37 AM. Reason : nor do I give 1% of a shit]

2/20/2012 1:35:56 AM

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"I'd be jealous of Windows Media Player"

hahaha.

2/20/2012 2:15:16 AM

I've seen the VLC plugin once and it was on a Mac because I was trying to get a non-Quicktime compatible video to play. I had to go out of my way to enable it.

I've never once run into it on Windows.

On the real though, I never use VLC unless I need to watch a downloaded FLV because I'm too lazy to just get the WMP codec for it.

itt we use acronyms

2/20/2012 2:53:00 AM

Fuck Mac (really just fuck Quicktime). I guess I'm just spoiled with VLC+WMP on Windows. I couldn't believe I couldn't playback TopGear while we were on vacation on my fiance's MacBook Air. I spent like 30 minutes trying to install a damn codec and never could get it to work.

At least with 2.0 I can put VLC on the Mac and know the same shit won't happen again

Totally agree with OP on loving VLC on Windows, but will be good to not have those hiccups anymore. Stopped using WMP several years ago when I caved and got VLC.

2/20/2012 2:55:10 AM

Has anyone tried the Blu-Ray function on a mac yet?

2/20/2012 5:26:17 AM

I prefer GOMPlayer, but I haven't installed 2.0 yet.

2/20/2012 7:45:45 AM

^^^^K-Lite Codec Pack man, K-Lite Codec Pack...

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"On the real, I've been using VLC for years, and have no idea what this plugin you speak of is."

When you install VLC for Windows you have the option to install an ActiveX Control and a Mozilla Plugin; this is what allows you to use the VLC engine to watch videos in the browser.

2/20/2012 8:30:49 AM

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"K-Lite Codec Pack"

oh, wow, haven't thought about that in a long time...certainly not since windows 7 came out

2/20/2012 8:35:55 AM

it's the kewlest

too bad it doesn't include RealAlternative anymore

2/20/2012 8:40:24 AM

not sure what i'd use it for, these days...i haven't had trouble playing anything

i was a big proponent of it back in the day, though...having the codecs doesn't hurt, and k-lite is (was, at least) the bomb diggity

2/20/2012 9:02:29 AM

I always thought CCCP was better?

2/20/2012 11:10:07 AM

I'm pretty sure the difference between the two were negligible. It really just came down to whichever one you could convince yourself wouldn't give you spyware on a given week.

2/20/2012 12:44:51 PM

cccp is legit and is all legal/opensource
k-lite, while useful back in the day had a lot of illegally distributed pieces and spyware depending on the mirror.

2/20/2012 1:20:05 PM

the last time i used vlc it couldnt properly seek. did they fix that?

2/20/2012 2:37:13 PM

yeah

2/20/2012 3:10:04 PM

MPC is supposed to be a good alternative on windows. Better multi-processor/GPU utilization than VLC apparently, but it's been hard (in the last 30 seconds) to find anything concrete except that you can enable use of CUDA for recent NVIDIA cards.

2/20/2012 5:13:53 PM

^K-Lite Codec Pack makes use of MPC-HC in all builds above Base, and that's honestly what I use for most of my video-watching when not in a browser: http://codecguide.com/

BTW nowadays the K-Lite Codec Pack is now a bundle of completely legal and mostly open-source codecs and tools, which is updated much more frequently and supports many more formats than the Combined Community Codec Pack; I once was wary of the Pack (like back in '07) but ever since early 2011 have been a fan.
Also instead of using QuickTime Alternative and RealAlternative, I have moved to just installing QuickTime and RealPlayer, now that they are less spyware-infested than they once were.

[Edited on February 20, 2012 at 10:00 PM. Reason : I mean QuickTime was never that infested, more bloated...

2/20/2012 9:59:46 PM

I use Media Player Classic with selective codecs. It's by far the best in my opinion. I use CoreAVC hardware decoding for h.264 video. It's the only decoder I've found to provide ultra smooth playback. Anything else stutters.

On HTPC I'm using XBMC. Built in DXVA2 doesn't work as well as CoreAVC (still stutters a bit) but I'm not going to worry about it at the moment.

Quote :

"That's never happened to me at all. But then again, I use Macs."

Almost the opposite for me. I've been running VLC on a Macbook Pro for a while and it sucks. I can't count the number of times it crashes and/or won't play a file. Anything on Windows is preferred over trying to play video in OSX. Although it's probably just OSX. I crash and/or freeze OSX on a daily basis compared to Windows.

2/21/2012 3:11:58 PM

osx is pretty awful at everything

2/21/2012 3:48:56 PM

Yeah I actually sold my MBP a couple months ago after a year of agony. Well mostly because I got tired of carrying around my work laptop plus another laptop and having to run parallels just to use my work exchange account.

2/21/2012 3:51:03 PM

^^^ that's very strange you have so many issues. VLC works flawlessly on my MBP; has since i installed it day one on Snow Leopard and now on Lion. never freezes, stutters, or crashes on any video format. it actually works better on my MBP compared to my Win7 desktop PC where i experience the random crash.

2/22/2012 7:58:28 AM

After using VLC on a multitude of PC and OSX based machines I can tell you it's more buggy in OSX by far. Files that play flawlessly in windows will get stuck in OSX. Don't know if it's a wrapper or codec issue but OSX is not happy with VLC.

VLC still lacks all the features MPC has though. Quite customizable. I love the borderless video in MPC.

2/22/2012 8:48:26 AM

Yeah, I've never had a single issue I can remember on OS X pre 1.0, 1.x or now on 2.0. Then again, I don't try to do anything too crazy with it, nor do I care about customization or features that I know I'll never use in a million years. It plays everything I've ever tried to play, and I don't have to hit the stupid spacebar to start playing a video after I've opened it. That's, quite literally, all I care about.

2/22/2012 4:08:14 PM