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VLC Media Player

Posted by New Media Specialist June - 18 - 2008 - Wednesday

VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player, or VideoLAN Client, is a program to play a wide array of video file formats as well as act as a video streaming server. It is a free, open source program that is available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers. We like VLC because of its universality, as it will play Windows video (.avi, and .wmv), Quicktime (.mov), Flash video (.flv), DivX and other MPEG4 formats such as h.264, as well as standard DVDs. It will even handle Real Player formats and popular audio file formats. It’s definitely a handy program to include in your toolkit.

Latest version of VLC


courtesy of FileHippo.com

Official VLC Media Player website

http://www.videolan.org/

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  1. HandBrake | UMW New Media Center says:
    April 24, 2009 at 4:17 pm

    [...] files can then be played back from a computer using QuickTime, or in one of our favorite programs VLC Player. They could also be played in a web page with the new Flash player which supports h.264 in addition [...]

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Welcome to the University of Mary Washington New Media Center. The UMWNMC is a sub-division of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies (DTLT), and as part of its mission, provides research, oversees development, and offers production assistance and consultation for new media approaches to supporting technology-enhanced and online learning at UMW.

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