gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » best media player http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:54:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 VLC Media Player 0.86b Test 1http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:58:10 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/13/vlc-media-player-086b-test-1/ The VideoLan team has upped a first test version of VLC Media Player 0.86b which happens to be my favorite media player. The new version fixes some crashes, adds VP31 decoding to Windows platforms and Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility. You can download this version right from the VideoLan ftp site; Simply select the version for your operating system (Win,Mac,Linux) and install it. I had no problems using the new version. If you experience crashes you might want to try this new version out.

VLC Media Player is one of the few players that is able to play most file types out of the box without the need for additional codecs or plugins. It does not use a lot of processing power or ram even when playing large video files. A 700 megabyte testfile used about 32 megabytes of ram and most of the time 0-2 processing power. Media Player Classic used less ram on the files (24.6) but between 18-28 processing power. So, if you are looking for a new media player to switch to give VLC a try, it is worth it.

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