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VLC (XP/Vista/OS X/Linux)
Surprise! Yet another free and open source application -- this time for people who don't like all the extra little performance-slowing programs that iTunes or MusicMatch might add to your laptop. VLC is an incredibly versatile media player that won't let you manage your iPod, but will let you play back almost any video or audio format you can throw at it, whether it's a stream from a Web site or a file on your desktop. Best of all, VLC is amazingly light weight. You'll experience none of delay that accompanies the launch of iTunes or Windows Media Player, and VLC uses fewer system resources, so your battery may even last a few minutes longer than if you were using iTunes.
VLC won't play back songs purchased through iTunes, or any other DRM track, but it will save you the hassle of opening up Quick Time to play a video, then iTunes to play a song you ripped from a CD, then Windows Media Player to stream NPR from its Web site.
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Subscribe to commentsRoger DodgerSep 3rd 2008 10:04AM
I've been using VLC for over a year, and found everything mentioned in the above article to be true. One other huge advantage of VLC: It plays DVD's from all regions, seamlessly, and unlike Windows Media Player, it does not require that one switch regions manually in the application whenever a different region DVD is played. (Also, Windows Media limits the number of times one can switch regions, which is a very silly and bothersome limitation indeed.)
jessSep 3rd 2008 7:52PM
i have this installed, it works fine.
survivorSep 3rd 2008 8:15PM
When I went to download VLC the last box for what I wanted to install showed recommend Media Player.Can you explain this?
John LeeOct 5th 2008 12:42PM
Vlc is good but I much prefer Gom media player. Just as good as Vlc and is also free.
FrankOct 21st 2008 4:39PM
Could you tell me which are the free safe guards that it said was a available?