Friday, January 25, 2008

VLC Media Player - A Wonderful Media Player

You may have or have not heard of the VLC Media Player. This program is an open-source program for a variety of operating systems. I personally use it to play back CDs, DVDs, or files that I don't want in my music library. One of the killer things that I like about VLC is the fact that it is simple. The default music player in Windows is Windows Media Player (WMP). While I like that music player, it really should be called Windows Media Jukebox or something. It is just a little bit too complicated for my taste. If I want to play a certain file once, or if I want to listen to a Music CD, I think VLC is perfect for my needs. What's more, even though it runs on a variety of operating systems like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, it still looks native to the operating system. For example, if you use Mac OS X, you will be happy to know that Mac OS X is a native Cocoa application, thus making it fit in with the operating system. I really like this application. It is one of my favorite open source applications besides OpenOffice.org. You should check this out. You can download it at http://www.videolan.org/.

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