VLC (VideoLAN) is a multi-platform multimedia player. It can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG, and DivX files and from a satellite card. It can also read a stream from a network sent by the VideoLAN Server or another source. The stream can be MPEG 2 TS in UDP or HTTP packets unicasted or multicasted on an IPv4 or IPv6 network.
Reviewing 2.0.6 (Apr 27, 2013)
it's 2013 now and VLC still is a broken piece of junk. In addition to reminding everyone of the bugs that still haven't been fixed in years (see older reviews), let's have a look at video quality:
madVr: https://i.minus.com/iFjudfUH5Ra8v.png
VLC: https://i.minus.com/iiBnQlaEiUawz.png
If you wonder about the difference in color/brightness, yes, that's VLC using the wrong matrix for RGB conversion.
Reviewing 2.0.5 (Feb 26, 2013)
there is 64-bit
Index of /pub/videolan/vlc/last/win64/ - http://download.videolan...videolan/vlc/last/win64/
thank god for VLC. whenever i have trouble playing something i fire up VLC and i always know that it will work. as for some *cough* ahem, other programs.. not so much :P