Freeware February: VLC media player

VLC is what I had been looking for. I had made a snap decision to buy the gericom DVD burner from Aldi Stores. It didn't come with Mac software. So searched the net and found Dragon Burn (cost 20) and now this. Both work well - brilliant!

Erm, did I say WMV? I meant VLC

I love VLC. I came across a plug in folder online once that turns the look of VLC to a real nice brushed Aluminum look. I can't remember what it is called though. If Anyone else knows, please post.

No, MPlayer doesn't feature WMV3, you'll need Windows Media Player for that one, as far as I know. But I don't know if Mplayer can handle Real-formats, because I refuse everything that comes from these guys or has to do with them. VLC is in fact a very good player in my opinion.

Well I love VLC for its ability to play Region 3 DVDs on my Powerbook. Disable Apple's DVD Player. Stick in Old Boy, open VLC and run disc. Voila.

I've found that MPlayer OS X can play more files than WMV (especially if you build your own copy from source, because then you get the latest Real codecs - use DarwinPorts to make it easy)

The two part Battlestar Galactica mini series was pretty good fun, especially with that rather attractive blonde Clylon woman.

mplayer for osx http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/ plays them all. i think even evil wmv files.

Another caveat... VLC cannot handle "WMV3" files, which I believe is the latest Windows Media format. Neither can it play anything from Real. Actually, if anyone knows of any players which can handle these formats on a Mac, please post it here.

Don't turn the volume above 50% in VLC or your sound may become very bad...