This can leave you stuck and scrambling for those codecs you were trying to avoid, but that's very rare and unlikely for the average guy.Īlso, the video quality isn't really the best out there, but that's just me being fussy.Īll in all, VLC is really popular for a reason. It runs them really smoothly without as much lagging as most media players do, which is great.Įven though it plays most videos, there are the odd ones that it either completely refuses to play or just doesn't display properly. Another nice thing about VLC is the way it handles high quality and high-def videos. If you're into your P2P and BiTorrent downloads then this is essential because it can play incomplete videos without interrupting your download.
If you don't want to faff about getting codecs to play this and that then this will do the trick. It plays most video files easily and without the need for extra codecs.
What can I say? VLC is one of the best players around. Nevertheless, VLC is a terrific video player and that one quirk is not enough to lower my rating. They tend to leave a rather long time between versions. I hope that they correct this in the next version - but that could be a long time coming. Anything less than that is pretty much not worth the time. Going through a one- or two-hour program at 8x takes long enough - 4x obviously takes twice as long. It's a fairly minor point (after all, how often do you want to fast-forward at 4x or 8x?) but I do use it from time to time to catch reception errors on recorded TV programs that I haven't yet watched at normal speed before passing the program on to someone else. It restarts where it would have been if it hadn't frozen.Īnother option is to quickly backspace 3 seconds when the picture freezes and, in most cases, it will get by that freeze point. If you wait a while, it will restart, but not where it left off. It trundles along for a few seconds, then the picture freezes. One minor downside of the new version is that fast-forward at 8x doesn't work any more - it worked perfectly in version 2.2.6. I sometimes have trouble hearing what people say, particularly when they have an unfamiliar (to me) accent or they mumble (which happens a lot in TV shows and movies). I was pleased to discover that it supports closed captioning. Videolan recently released the latest version (3.0.3).
I have been a VLC user for quite some time and believe it to be the best video player available.
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