Although not a hack VLC is a pretty cool media player (although Media Player Classic and the XVID codec work much better on my P3 laptop with tv-out). Of course VLC would never have been as good without the fine work from the ffmpeg library people.

p.s. Anyone know why in Firefox I can’t see the right hand side of this input box?

Posted at 1:38 pm on Sep 16th, 2008 by Paul

You can’t see the right hand side because it’s 100 columns wide and there’s room for 57 columns :-)

Posted at 1:53 pm on Sep 16th, 2008 by TJ

Yeah, and in chrome too. They screwed up their css I guess :P Woah! But in chrome it moves the panel over… that’s too cool.

Posted at 2:14 pm on Sep 16th, 2008 by srilyk

I’m not sure how old my last version of vlc was,
but I like in the new version that slowing down a video
slows down the audio also. (and speeding up)

The playlist thing isn’t working for me in the new version…

Posted at 5:21 pm on Sep 16th, 2008 by joelanders

What about just regular WMP with
http://www.cccp-project.net/ installed?

I’ve yet to find any video that cccp couldn’t decode…

Posted at 8:29 pm on Sep 16th, 2008 by Frank

A new vlc eh?
Man I wish they had a version for the nokia tablets.

vlc is like my favorite media player ever.

Posted at 11:54 am on Sep 17th, 2008 by strider_mt2k

i love vlc (and yes, i love mpc + cccp too). it’s nice to finally see a new major release. i’m just hoping that this new version won’t start crashing randomly halfway through a playlist like the old one did (seriously, what was with that).

Posted at 7:36 pm on Sep 17th, 2008 by ryan

ryan: I thought that was just me!

Posted at 10:46 pm on Sep 17th, 2008 by Ian Lesnet

well… i would suggest that mplayer is way better…

Posted at 12:28 pm on Sep 18th, 2008 by eduke

Damn! No more wxWidgets! It was a nice alternative to those who hate skins and prefer good ole’ native GUI. This one looks a lot worse. I will need to save the older installer at a few places so that it won’t be lost :(

Posted at 7:17 am on Sep 19th, 2008 by saimhe

Good old plain MediaPlayer Classic and ffdshow and you won’t need those buggy codec packs…
I use VLC on the Mac and MPC+ffdshow on Windows
Let’s see if this new VLC version os more user friendly that the old one…

Posted at 7:31 am on Sep 19th, 2008 by João Barros

For regular playback in windows CCCP+MPC still beats VLC hands down (especially softsubs and ordered chapters), but at least VLC are starting to pull themselves out of the dark ages of .srt subs.

Posted at 4:22 am on Sep 20th, 2008 by EdZ

“i’m just hoping that this new version won’t start crashing randomly halfway through a playlist like the old one did”

I was thinking the EXACT same thing when I read this. I have always been unsure of whether or not I was the only one who had problems with VLC crashing all the time. I gave up on VLC over a year ago but I guess I will try this new one out. I always liked VLC and wished it would work but unfortunately I never was able top get VLC to be stable for me

Posted at 3:51 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by ImanSTER

I was thinking the EXACT same thing that Ryan posted.
I have always been unsure of whether or not I was the only one who had problems with VLC crashing all the time. I gave up on VLC over a year ago but I guess I will try this new one out. I always liked VLC and wished it would work but unfortunately I never was able top get VLC to be stable for me

Posted at 3:52 pm on Sep 23rd, 2008 by ImanSTER