Swiss Army Knife of video players
One of the main questions people like me in the profession will get is, how do you play that particular piece of video. The problem is that there are lots and lots of ways to encode video using what are called "codecs", the way in which the original video will be compressed to make the file smaller and formatted in a way that will be playable on most players.
Note the most. Not all. Surprisingly, people do not always encode in such a way that will make it playable on the most popular players. The big three are Windows Media, Real and Quicktime. If I have left anyone out, then I apologise.
Windows does have a really useful tool called GOM Player and so far I have been able to play the vast majority of material on the Windows side using that. However, there is one player that sets itself apart as a great piece of software. God bless those Open Source heroes who provide these wonderful applications for free.
VLC player not only has just been updated but plays a fantastic range of video and for me has worked 99.9% of the time. The 0.1% that failed was probably not worth looking at anyway. One of the great things about this is that it has a really superb inbuilt array of codecs that seem to play everything and when I post the next story you will also understand why getting VLC player along with those codecs is so important. Not only is it superb for these reasons but it is also multi-platform, Windows, Mac OS X, the inevitable Linux but even BE OS. Startling. Click on the post heading to take you straight to download all that VLC goodness, and remember, there is even more good stuff to come on the next blog post.
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14 September 2012 at 09:59
impressive!
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