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Mike S
on 26 March 2011
Review #16
I started using VLC about 4 or 5 years ago, when Windows Media Player wouldn't play a lot of the movies I had download,and never looked back.

Version 1.1.4 was real buggy with certain codecs for me but 1.1.8 everything so far is fine. I love the ability to customize so many settings, and the fact it take almost anything I can throw at it.

I donate to this project when ever I can.

Rating 9/10

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wolvish
on 19 November 2010
Review #17
I agree with wdc. Ever since 1.0.3 it's been buggy as hell, Can't seek mkvs, m2ts s, crashes frequently too.. I dumped it for good..

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wdc
on 30 September 2010
Review #18
vlc lost its way, it used to be a terrific player, now it's just another one, slow, resource hog, keeps icon in systray even after close, keep my files busy after closed, too many bugs. i'm using mpc right now and dumped vlc for good.

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Nathan
on 29 March 2010
Review #19
Dissatisfied with Windows Media Player, this application is a far better alternative. It has more options and is easy to use. I recommend it for anyone who uses a DVD ROM or CD ROM.

VLC Media Player is a very user friendly, intuitive application that allows me to use my music libraries or 'movie of the day' without any struggle. It lets me gets started, the 'disappears' while in use. Then it comes easily to use when I am done.

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Moo
on 05 October 2009
Review #20
1.0.2 is finally usable for me (Windows)! Still has flaws (creates invalid icon entries for the file associations; sometimes displays three little video popup windows when playing a wmv!), but this player is finally worthy enough to replace Media Player Classic here (HomeCinema was a good alternative but unfortunately that is just a bit too unstable).

VLC is quite heavy in the disk space department, but it can be cut down to about 55 mb (from around 80 -LOL). Quite good player so far, and the playback speedup while keeping the same sound pitch is great (seems only this player offers that).

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Chuck
on 23 September 2009
Review #21
Using VLC 1.0.2, WMV file, with WMV3 format video and WMA3 (VLC codec "wmap") format audio, plays video fine but has NO AUDIO!!

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djb
on 12 May 2009
Review #22
VLC is one pretty smart media player. However, I found that with VLC 1.0, when seeking through a WMV file, playback was slow. When downgrading to the 0.9.9 version, the file instantly played after each seek time with no pause afterwards. I will stick with the 0.9.9 version until the 1.0 version becomes more stable and this issue with WMV files is resolved. Other than that, this is a great media player. Will use this for great .WMV file playback.

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Gerard
on 21 April 2009
Review #23
Very good on older youtube video clips but image is shaky on newer youtube clips even those with lower resolution.

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wdld0628 (Chuck)
on 03 April 2009
Review #24
Using VLC 0.9.9, under Tools->Preferences->Audio->Filters->spatializer there are 5 parameters/options but no descriptions or names for these parameters/options on the left.

Help->Check for Updates... appears to be broken. I get pop-up window with title "VLC media player updates". Window shows "Launching an update request...", but then comes back with "An error occurred while checking for updates...". Clicking on "Recheck version" button at bottom of pop-up window, repeats this error.

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Larry
on 29 August 2008
Review #25
I'm using VLC version "f".

It does play .wmv files fine. That's a positive!

However,

* It displays .3gp (3gpp) video, but has no sound.
* It displays .3g2 (3gpp2) video, but has no sound.

* It does not even open a .avi file!

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mihlub
on 13 July 2008
Review #26
pro:
-played most audio/video formats well...


con:
- click on timeline to seek or move forward backward failed to do so in flv and vob files

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Tempus3
on 05 June 2008
Review #27
Only real problem I have with VLC (which for most things is quite nice) is the subtitle support. It's absolutely the worst. How about working on improving that for the .i release????

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Firenze
on 04 June 2008
Review #28
It doesn't play video's, horrible UI, skippy playback, useless options, needed options missing.

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Bri Mo
on 20 March 2008
Review #29
Only plays audio. No video at all. Doesn't work with streaming media. Bad download ? loaded this software 3 times same problem. Bri

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Will
on 04 October 2007
Review #30
"The libty_plugin.dylib in the Mac OS X version STILL doesn't play series 2 ty files from tivo."

But a kind soul at www.dealdatabase .com has just created one!

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