Is VLC Media Player going to be available for iPad?

Those who still haven’t satisfied their geeks’ souls with an iPad will have to keep on working to get one. But those who have their brand-new iPads, Apple’s eye-catching tablet computer, will be glad to know that VLC Media Player will soon be available for their recently acquired device.

Yes, that’s right. If this announcement becomes effective, VLC Media Player will be able to play almost any audio or video file in the iPad. But this is still in process, especially because the developers must plan how to turn it into an iPad application, i.e. how to be accepted by Apple when they know VLC can play almost anything, even Flash format files, which Steve Jobs and his people don’t find very appealing.

However, generally speaking, the fact that VLC Media Player finally becomes available for iPad (and, by extension, for iPod and iPhone Touch) won’t require too much work, especially because the playback engine for the tablet PC is similar to the one that desktop PCs use. Nevertheless, everybody knows that, beyond their functionality, iPads don’t have the power of a desktop PC yet, and this could become evident for example when we try to watch HD videos.

However, despite the fact that the iPad may be weak against an HD video or that it can or can’t play Flash files, VLC Media Player will bring countless benefits to the tablet, especially if we think about its abilities for online video and audio streaming and the numerous multimedia formats that are currently left outside IOS operating systems.

Which player is worthy of your multimedia files

A multimedia player enables you to play movies, music, video clips, TV shows and any audio and video file. Multimedia players have become essential applications for any PC delivering the highest audio and video quality. Next, you´ll get to know the most popular players covering all multimedia aspects. We introduce you to Windows Media Player, Winamp, iTunes, Songbird and VLC Media Player. These players present features of their own, some of them allow users to manage their files, and others feature hundreds of plug-ins.

Windows Media Player

As with almost every type of program in the world of the PC, the influence of Microsoft Windows is strong when it comes to choosing a multimedia player. So what better place to begin talking about these programs than with the one that is installed by default on this operating system?

Windows Media Player strength lies in the use and management of multimedia files, mainly thanks to its Media Library, with which users can arrange and catalogue their files, thereby making it easier to find exactly what they want to play. What’s more, it features tools for ripping and burning CDs, together with another for synchronizing with portable devices.

This player also comes with a collection of accessories and enhancements with which you can, among other things, change various aspects of the audio output, link the program to Windows Live Messenger, and more.

Without a doubt, the weakest aspects of Microsoft’s media player are the options for playing podcasts and the lack of features it offers users for playing videos.

Winamp

Historically, Winamp has always been the most popular multimedia player, thanks to its winning combination of interesting tools, low resource consumption, and ease of use.

Nowadays, Winamp comes with various different tools for playing audio and video, podcast subscription options, playlists, m3u support, support for streaming radio, a multimedia library, and synchronization with all sorts of mobile devices.

As if all that wasn’t enough, this player also stands out for the large amount of plug-ins that can be added to it, thus achieving unique sounds, professional-standard automatic track mixing, and much more.

iTunes

iTunes is the multimedia player of Mac OS, which Apple has now ported to the Windows platform, resulting in a rather strange hybrid.
In themselves, the player’s features are good. It has multiple features for playing audio and video, supports podcasts, plays internet radio stations from all over the world, and can burn and rip audio to and from audio CDs. Plus, it features a wide variety of options for the Apple iPod and iPhone, even if the same can’t be said for other portable devices.

However, after using it for a while you can see that, despite being a great player, there’s no justification for the amount of system resources that it uses up, mainly due to the fact that it is not a program that has been designed for use under Microsoft Windows. Add to this certain other limitations and it becomes very clear that Apple launched iTunes thinking almost exclusively about iPod and iStore users, rather than the possible needs of those users open to other options.

Songbird

If by now you were thinking that there’s no player out there capable of beating the ones already mentioned, you’d be very wrong. Just as Web 2.0 continues to make headlines, Songbird could be described as a sort of Player 2.0. The central portion of its user interface features a Mozilla-based web browser, complete with tabs, that is sure to make this program a hit.

Songbird is able to play some of your favourite tracks even if you don’t have them stored on your PC since it provides you with access to sites where you can search for and play free-to-download songs and other audio files. What’s more, you’ll have a large number of online plug-ins at hand which will notably enhance and build upon the performance of the player.

It goes without saying that this program also comes with support for many different audio and video formats, along with different models and types of portable media devices.

VLC Media Player

Last but not least we have VLC Media Player, a program that may not look like much of a threat to the other players talked about here but that, once you start to use it, you’ll see just how handy it can be to have around.

VLC doesn’t have any library for organizing and administrating your multimedia files. Instead, you simply make a playlist to listen to right now or load a previously saved one. The user interface is pretty basic – and not in the least attractive to be honest – but, despite this, this program is one of the most popular media players around.

The secret lies in the large bundle of codecs that it comes with and which let it play practically any multimedia file that you can get your hands on. No matter what challenge it’s faced with, VLC responds without hesitation, consuming very few system resources whilst achieving an enviable play-back quality.

Choosing just one single player would mean missing out on the features and possible benefits of all the others, for which reason combining more than one and then making use of the features that you need or want the most is surely the best answer when it comes down to kitting out your PC.

In this way, it´s important to know which player is the most convenient according to the multimedia content we wish to play. We consider that Windows Media Player, Winamp, Songbird and iTunes are all great players with similar features and the same audio and video quality level. Only VLC makes a difference thank to the user friendly codec installation. But as we all know, the appearance in a player is also important, that´s why Winamp and iTunes are both great looking players with a wide variety of wonderful skins and great functionality.

The video´s software your PC need

The change from analog to digital had a significant influence on the video, by having a PC you can see movies before its opening, complete series seasons, home videos made by digital or mobile phones, music videos and many more. The only requirement needed to take full advantage of this possibility is having the proper software that supports the multiple options the video files has (format, compression, codec used, etc).

We will show you here different applications so you can play any video you have (VLC Media Player) solve any format compatibility problem (Combined Community Codec) avoid DVD protection (DvdFab HD Decrypter) and burn discs with your favorite videos (CdBurnerXp).

VLC Media Player

VLC Media Player is a multimedia player very easy to use that also features a user-friendly interface. This software has many options to play files in multiple formats, including DVD and streaming video.

VLC Media Player includes its own codec pack being able this way of playing a wide range of video formats without depending on the Windows codec. One important feature to mention is that it is able to play the incomplete videos we are downloading from Emule, allowing us to see if we are downloading the video we want.

This software is useful to play videos and audio but has being developed to the video side adding new options like the subtitle reproduction and the capacity of playing several audio tracks on a movie.

Combined Community Codec Pack

Combined Community Codec Pack is a complete codec pack which was initially designed for the reproduction of anime videos, and now it has become one of the most popular codec packs in the world. Unlike other packs, Combined Community Codec only installs on our system the necessary codecs, taking a minimal disk space while avoiding compatibility issues with other codecs on our system.

Before installing Combined Community Codec, the installer detects possible codec issues with your system -previously installed codecs that is – avoiding further codec troubleshooting. Combined Community Codec includes among its features two complete multimedia players: Media Player Classic and Zoom Player Standard. With these players you can take full advantage of the codecs included in the package, such as: Haali Media Splitter (DirectShow filter for MKV, MP4, OGM and AVI), VSFilter (for SSA/ASS, SRT y VOBSUB subtitles), Ffdshow CCCP (for H.264/AVC, DivX and vid) and WMV9VCM (for Windows Media). Apart from having standard codecs such as Divx, Xvid and AVI, CCCP offers free audio and video players and an application for making movie subtitles.

DvdFab HD Decrypter

This useful tool allows ripping all kind of DVD movies and videos to the PC to play it, share and burn it later in other disc. Besides offering the possibility of having on our computer any DVD we want, it rips incredible fast and easy.

DvdFab HD Decrypter offers many options to rip, between them we can choose to do it to the entire disc, only on the main part of the movie, on some episodes, with a particular language and subtitle and more. It stands out by doing the rip beyond any protection the disc might have being these CSS, RC, RCE, APS, UOPs or Sony ARccOS.

CdBurnerXp

CdBurnerXp is another amazing burning tool. CdBurnerXp supports CDs and DVDs both DVD and DVDRW, as well as the possibility of creating ISO files. It also allows users to rip audio CDs.

The interface is very easy-to-use, It´s divided into several modules allowing you to drag and drop files. Another important aspect of this burner is that it consume very little system resources. You can also create boot disks and includes a bin/nrg to ISO converter.

Without a doubt, the popularity of Nero suite makes of CdBurnerXp unknown software, nevertheless, its low resource consume and stability makes it highly recommended.

Any Video Converter

Any Video Converter is really useful to convert our movies or videos to the different formats present nowadays, since it can convert video files between many formats.

This tool has many features worth mention: it allows converting a great amount of formats, between them, the popular “mpg”, “avi” and another formats for complex devices. In addition to this, it offers the preview option for the videos we are going to convert and select the segment or part of the video we want to convert in case we do not want to convert the whole video.

It´s use is very simple as it features a user-friendly interface, but despite this, we must say that this software presents some disadvantages. Compared with other software, Any Video Converter does not offer any option to modify the output video qualities, though this does not interfere with its performance.

As we could see, with these software you can make any action regarding videos. They are a good choice when dealing with videos and taking full advantage of our computer.

VLC media player -an open-source application- from the VideoLAN project, has finally reached version and it´s called “Goldeneye”. After the success of version 0.9.9 reaching thousands of downloads within months, VLC developers wanted to create a multimedia player for Windows and Mac OSX. VLC 1.0.0 allows users to play any audio and video file. This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the older versions.

VLC Media Player 1.0 finally released

What´s best about VLC is it´s live streaming feature to listen to radios or play videos, watch TV shows, football matches and more, just by connecting to the internet. You can also set up VLC to stream media from a file or from a DVD as a server, and then another client can stream that media, without having to encode the file first. Additionally, it can repair video files with corrupted headers,

Goldeneye added an easier encoding graphical user interface in the Qt version, new artwork, made the toolbars customizable and as always, it´s cross-platform and open source.

Version 1.0 features several interface improvements making it even more user-friendly than before. It adds playback features such as:

• Playback support for zipped files.
• Support for some HD streams.
• Added new HD (High-Definition) codecs, such as: Blu-Ray Linear PCM; Dolby Digital Plus; AES3; TrueHD and Real Video 3.0 and 4.0.
• Support for Frame-by-Frame
• Live recording support

VLC 1.0 Goldeneye is without a doubt one of the best current multimedia players. Millions around the world have downloaded it and it they proved for themselves that it´s the best fully-featured multimedia player.

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Aren´t you bored of the same old desktop background images? You can finally get rid of them! With VLC media player you can set your favorites videos… as desktop background wallpapers! We will now show the procedure to make it happen.

After installing VLC media player and the program is launched, open a video file. In the next step, select the menu bar found on the upper side of the program and chooses “Options” and from the dropdown menu selects “preference”. A new window will be displayed with multiple options to set all the aspect of this application. In this case we will focus on one, located on the left where we will find a menu with many variants. There we will need to select the option “video” and we will see how the options change.

As you can see, in the left there is another menu. Choose “video” and then you will see the following window:

In this window perform the necessary changes. You must ensure that “Advanced Options” -found on the bottom left of the window- is enabled. This is necessary since the program come by default programmed to show the simplest options for beginner users only, if you want to try advance options, you need to enable it. Now check that “Enable Video”, the first option of the menu, is selected. Once we completed those steps, click on “Save” to save changes.

Once we play the video, right-click on the window and the next menu dropdown will be displayed:

In this menu enable the option “Desktop Background”. Now, check that the video selected in the program is being played on your desktop.

As we can see, changing the desktop background Wallpaper is simple as making a few clicks and selecting this variant in VLC media player ; in other words, it´s easier than you thought. Once you choose the video, you need to enable an action inside the setting panel of the program and automatically we will see it in our desktop. For those looking for a change in their desktop background, give this trick a try, your desktop will not regret it.

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