yawningdog
08-24-2006, 04:56 AM
I don't know about everyone else, but I've been pretty disenchanted with media players nowadays. It seems that every time I try to play a multimedia-type file, I get plug-in, codex, or some other error and I always wind up having to download some or another patch or extension. RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, they all manage to not work at one time or another.
Granted, I'm not all that savvy with this kind of app and my problems may be my own. But I've found a media player that seems to work right the first time, every time. Its called VLC media player and it's available here.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The military uses it for streaming video. But it seems like every other day that I gat a call from a user saying "I can't play this music file" or "My video won't run", MP4s being the most recent example. The first thing out of my mouth is "Try running it with VLC." So far, this has worked every single time.
Granted, I'm not all that savvy with this kind of app and my problems may be my own. But I've found a media player that seems to work right the first time, every time. Its called VLC media player and it's available here.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
The military uses it for streaming video. But it seems like every other day that I gat a call from a user saying "I can't play this music file" or "My video won't run", MP4s being the most recent example. The first thing out of my mouth is "Try running it with VLC." So far, this has worked every single time.