VLC 1.0 Released

**Lemur** · 07-08-2009, 05:54

Well, now I can throw out the hodge-podge of media players I've got littering my hard drive. VLC, the media player that can play just about any video file that isn't completely broken, has gone to version 1.0. Woo-hoo! I just downloaded it and tried it out on some files that cause problems with Windows Media Player, and it chugged through them without a hiccup. Great stuff. And we all love that open-sauce free aspect, yessir.

Download it here, and bask in the pure love of a one-stop codec and media heaven. (I may get cocky and unistall my K-Lite Codec Pack, just to be different.)

**rajpoot** · 07-08-2009, 06:56

The best media player there is.....though I never ever understood why do they call it VideoLAN.

**LeftEyeNine** · 07-08-2009, 09:12

(I may get cocky and unistall my K-Lite Codec Pack, just to be different.)

Lemur, avoid blasphemy at all costs.

**Beskar** · 07-08-2009, 16:23

VLC is ugly as sin and using either CCCP/K-Lite Codec allows you to use Media Player 11/12 which looks very good and play any file with it. Also VLC lacks Thumbnail support, so all your video files look like traffic cones and you can't see what the file is at a quick glance and have to read through. Also has no library for easy management of the files.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 07-08-2009, 17:17

Why did you wait for 1.0 to use it Lemur? It's been fully fuctional (as far as I can tell) for ages.

**Lemur** · 07-08-2009, 21:18

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Why did you wait for 1.0 to use it Lemur? It's been fully fuctional (as far as I can tell) for ages.

I was using it back in the command-line days, so it's not as though I'm unfamiliar with the software. Frankly, I found the interface too kludgy, so I put it on a shelf and only whipped it out when there were files that didn't want to play nice.

Now it's all polished and pretty and I love it with little teddy bear hearts and sparkly fairy magic and unicorn love love love.

As for library management, I don't use it for music, just video, and I organize my educational materials by folder.

**Xiahou** · 07-08-2009, 19:01

Originally Posted by Beskar

Also VLC lacks Thumbnail support, so all your video files look like traffic cones and you can't see what the file is at a quick glance and have to read through.

I still get thumbnails using VLC.

Thanks for the heads up on this, Lemur.

**Hooahguy** · 07-08-2009, 19:19

Originally Posted by Beskar

VLC is ugly as sin and using either CCCP/K-Lite Codec allows you to use Media Player 11/12 which looks very good and play any file with it. Also VLC lacks Thumbnail support, so all your video files look like traffic cones and you can't see what the file is at a quick glance and have to read through. Also has no library for easy management of the files.

better than downloading a dozen codecs...

**Beskar** · 07-08-2009, 20:30

The dozen codec are generally in a batch file, so it is only one download. As for Xiahou, did you do anything to make that happen, or is it because you are using 32-bit windows and it just works for that?