VLC media player – A universal media player which plays video and audio files of any known format has reached the version 1.0 milestone. I especially have a liking for this media player because it is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BeOS and BSDs. And, in my experience, I never ever had to hunt for media codecs once I installed VLC on my machine. Heck, it even plays Flash (.flv) video files.
VLC 1.0.0 comes with a whole lot of new features namely :
- Live recording
- Instant pausing and frame-by-frame support
- Finer speed controls
- New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, …)
- Video scaling in full screen
- AirTunes streaming and much more….
For a full list of features in VLC media player version 1.0.0 and how it fares with its competition, check out the features page.
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