VLC (VideoLAN) 1.1.4

Rated 40/50 by gambegam at May 29, 2011

the short cut cont+Q very frequently does not function in latest version it is however one one of the very best software in its field good luck God bless you

Rated 20/50 by BiblioPhil at May 29, 2011

beautiful visuals 1 help menu not intuitive for me: sound crackled and couldn't understand the video or else no sound came through at all 2 no fast forward button, just a "faster" button without designations of how fast 1 help menu not intuitive: I know there is supposed to be a way to fix sound problems (on my computer, I could not understand what was being said; it was as if there were crackling all the time), but when I went looking for it, I could not find it. 2 There is no fast forward (only a "faster" button), and I don't remember any more (I removed it from my computer because of these two problems and went back to using Nero), but I think that there is no frame forward or frame reverse button (but I could be wrong about this; a big deficit for me about Nero is that there is no frame reverse button in my version). If the two problems above could be corrected, I would probably reinstall it and be very happy with it; but not the way it is.

Rated 10/50 by Hilbert at Jul 16, 2011

I agree with carlvui and Blaxima. v1.1.11 is insignificantly different to the previous release, many non-trivial bugs remain. I've already commented previously, more would be superfluous except to add that those who rate VLC with 5 stars must have very simple requirements (or they're on the dev team).

Rated 20/50 by Blaxima at Jul 16, 2011

This is easily one of the more over hyped pieces of rubbish. Yes it can play many things BUT it does them quite poorly. I did a side by side comparison to BSplayer, MPC HC and KMplayer and this had by far the worst image rendering. (BSplayer was the best but I use the second best MPC HC with ffdshow because it has the best subtitle rendering). Audio is a nightmare with this thing. I load a lossless file with this and then open foobar, VLC does not load the flac file until foobar is almost a minute into the song!! And again, poor quality sound reproduction. I could go in to the many issues with audio syncing and the config page but if you still think VLC is better in spite of it's bottom of the barrel performance then nothing is going to change your mind.

Rated 30/50 by JCookes at Jul 16, 2011

MPC-HC (Media Player Classic Home Cinema) is indeed a lot smaller and an overall better player than VLC.

Rated 10/50 by Ramp4me at Jul 18, 2011

you can get istfor Linux & Mac, but that are the only euhm "positives" about this poor player.

Rated 10/50 by carlvui at Jul 22, 2011

@Hilbert Exactly, as you wrote: “…. those who rate VLC with 5 stars must have very simple requirements (or they're on the dev team).” Sadly, it is a widespread problem on review boards, especially developers are penchant for posting their own high rating reviews, we can call them stealth advertisements. Therefore, your, as well as other posters' detailed reviews (not just for VLC) are highly appreciated. Facts against influential, baseless promotions. Thanks for your time and help. ------- As for the present v1.1.11 many of the same old bugs are yet, still there. For me the most annoying is the incorrect icon display after changing set up association. Default set up association still only can safely be changed during installation and does not work after installation from the "tools-preferences" window. And so many other bugs; XP Home SP3