Re: Searching for Freeware DVD player application

From: Greg Merritt <gmerritt_at_berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 12:19:40 PDT

On Oct 25, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Dustin Li wrote:

> VLC is a general purpose video player (it works with almost every
> sort of
> media I've thrown at it):
> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I'd like to second the recommendation for VLC, and draw folks'
attention to it if they haven't come across it before.

It is actually kind of a super-generalized software "video in ->
video out" tool. If you can get video "from" anywhere -- a file, a
network stream, optical media, your own screen -- then you can dump
it out in just about any reasonable method -- to your screen, to a
file, as a broadcast stream, etc.

You can also convert encoding formats as VLC processes the video.

It even has a command-line version, which lends it to automated,
batch, or scripted processes.

A must-have.

-Greg (who is simply a satisfied user)

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