VLC Media Player 0.8.6 Test1

VLC Media Player 0.8.6 Test1

lardiop on 24 October 2006 - 17:29 · 21 comments & 18859 views

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VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it's own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn't need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Updates Include:

Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
New hotkeys for crop and zoom
Systray support in skins (Windows only)
Support for Apple Remote control

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#1 Lee® on 24 Oct 2006 - 18:02

Keeps on getting better and better.

(1 reply) #2 Leo Natan on 24 Oct 2006 - 18:29

This release is bad! Doesn't even open ISOs (dvd movies) when dragged in the VLC window. And it's old, the nightly builds are much more advanced that this POS!

#2.1 bush on 25 Oct 2006 - 08:37

dude! thanks! didn't even know about opening iso files. that's so great!

#3 Buttus on 24 Oct 2006 - 18:47

Still a great program, shouldn't be without it...

#4 Kreuger on 24 Oct 2006 - 19:55

They haven't released 0.8.6 for Linux yet, only 0.8.5 final 1.1-0

(3 replies) #5 skase on 24 Oct 2006 - 21:50

Converted to GOM Player yesterday.. far easier to use. Has all the little things this one has. Plays ISO's etc

#5.1 sanctified on 25 Oct 2006 - 02:40

Quote - skase said @ #5

Converted to GOM Player yesterday.. far easier to use. Has all the little things this one has. Plays ISO's etc

it also plays every movie mformat without the need to codecs?

#5.2 DJ Specs on 25 Oct 2006 - 08:55

I also just tried GOM.. it's so good! I was impresed. VLC is good, but the interface just sucks so bad..

#5.3 Joshua-San on 27 Oct 2006 - 09:04

Quote - sanctified said @ #5.1

Quote - skase said @ #5

Converted to GOM Player yesterday.. far easier to use. Has all the little things this one has. Plays ISO's etc

it also plays every movie mformat without the need to codecs?

Yep.

#6 mail on 25 Oct 2006 - 02:42

I would advise not to download this ... very buggy.

#7 darkpuma on 25 Oct 2006 - 03:40

when will they make the default skin more useable????

Also, ive been having mounting problems with vlc recently... when i drag disk images in it often is very jerky and i end up mounting in daemon tools =S

still is a great program, just wish they'd hurry up with the updates! = P

(1 reply) #8 ozgeek on 25 Oct 2006 - 05:07

It's a media player not a disc mounting program. It's a player that plays music, videos, dvds.

Stupid in the heads here.

#8.1 darkpuma on 25 Oct 2006 - 11:27

Quote - ozgeek said @ #8

It's a media player not a disc mounting program. It's a player that plays music, videos, dvds.

which aslo has the ability to mount and play disks images <_<

thanks for coming out

#9 iverson0881 on 25 Oct 2006 - 07:56

finally apple remote support

(1 reply) #10 howb21 on 25 Oct 2006 - 13:48

no support for .rm files? they are getting irritating, people should just boycott real media for its lack of support.

#10.1 justlooking on 25 Oct 2006 - 22:08

Quote - howb21 said @ #10

no support for .rm files? they are getting irritating, people should just boycott real media for its lack of support.

Why boycott Real Media files? rmvb files offer tremendous quality in a small size. We should boycott the VLC player, since Gom and Crystal and KMP and BsPlayer all play Real files.

#11 Leo Natan on 25 Oct 2006 - 23:23

The issue has been resolved in a newer nightly build. Go get it, leave the official test1 version to rot, it's too flawed.

(2 replies) #12 pwaddy on 27 Oct 2006 - 21:23

will they ever make it so that when you click on the seek bar it will jump straight there where you want, instead of jumping almost randomly??

#12.1 Post-It Note on 28 Oct 2006 - 04:55

It's not random; it's jumping a set amount forwards or backwards everytime you click on the bar, just like when you click on the empty scrollbar places.

#12.2 Jugalator on 31 Oct 2006 - 15:31

I agree; that's among the most annoying features of the player.

And the strangest thing about that "feature" is that if you use a skin instead, it acts like in regular media players again!

If they could only give the user an option to make the position be set to where you clicked instead of X frames forward, this player would instantly become much more useful to me. I also don't want to use their skins because they're often really bad designed.

#13 Joshua-San on 29 Oct 2006 - 00:18

I never really liked this player. It's not because it sucks or whatever, nah it works. I just don't like the interface and how this program works. Sometimes it would even render a movie all wrong. I prefer MPlayer, but do try VLC Media Player and see if it does fit to your needs.

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