VLC Media Player 1.1.0 FINAL

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The media player that fills all your needs. It can handle DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.

You don't need to keep track of a dozen codec packs you need to have installed. VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is.

And what is more it can even play back the file or media if it is damaged! Missing or broken pieces are no stop to VLC, it plays all the video and audio information that's still intact.

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The media player that fills all your needs. It can handle DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.

You don't need to keep track of a dozen codec packs you need to have installed. VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is.

And what is more it can even play back the file or media if it is damaged! Missing or broken pieces are no stop to VLC, it plays all the video and audio information that's still intact.

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VLC is a good product. I use the portable version almost on a daily basis. And it has a bunch of features (here and here are a couple of quick examples).

I still use WMP12 since it has improved much over WMP11. An interesting read : http://lifehacker.com/5513759/how-i-learned-to-love-windows-media-player ;)

(Besides, it's impossible to rip CDs and automatically detect the songs using VLC, so I can't use it)

Most of the Music I have is MP3 so I use iTunes (as I have an iPod!) :)

You don't need to keep track of a dozen codec packs you need to have installed. VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is.

exactly, 90% of the time it plays out of date codecs,

dont get me started on subtitle handling