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Kantaris Is Appealing VLC Player Based Media Player With Added Functionality

By Usman | Published: August 24, 2010

Kantaris is a new media player developed by Christofer Persson, a computer science student at Lund University. It is based on the code derived from VideoLAN Media Player (VLC Player) and Bass Audio Library. The user interface looks quite different from the official VLC Player and is more similar to that of Windows Media Player. Since it is based on VLC Player, it can handle any media file thrown at it and the sound quality is great (thanks to Bass Audio Library).

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How to Save Audio And Equalizer Settings In VLC Player

By Usman | Published: July 15, 2010

VLC is the most preferred media player catering advanced users and amateurs alike. Configuring basic settings and options are easy but diving deep into customizing and tweaking its features is rather difficult for novices. Many users have been griping about facing problems in saving equalizer settings. Unfortunately there is no apparent option to quickly save the audio level, specified preset, and especially equalizer settings. In this post we will walk you through step-by-step procedure of saving the equalizer settings.

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15 Features Of VLC Player That You Probably Don’t Know About

By Usman | Published: May 25, 2010

VLC Player being the the most celebrated open source media player is also ranked as the best among thousands of media players available out there.The latest version unleashed new horizons of controlling, managing, & customizing media files regardless of any format they belongs to. For novices, it comes across as only a “Media Player” but the fact is, it empowers users with multitude of playback, recording, and streaming options. What makes it stand out is  minimalistic & simple IDE, smooth playback, capacitating users with multiple file format support and much more. From the day VideoLAN dev team gushed forth VLC Player for the general public, we have seen a mass switch from other eminent media players.

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VLC Is Better By Default – Best Skin For Mac OS X

By Nakodari | Published: November 20, 2009

VLC is the best cross-platform media player, period. Even though it includes great features, Mac users don’t like the default skin. User Damien created a fully Snow Leopard compatible skin for VLC media player from ground up. He named it VLC Is Better By Default(long name, eh?).

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Play ISO Disk Image Format With VLC Media Player

By Nakodari | Published: October 12, 2009

VLC Media Player continues to surprise me, even after writing a detailed what’s new post. Recently I discovered that VLC Player can also play ISO Image Format.

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How To Download VLC Player For iPhone/iPod Touch Without Donating

By Nakodari | Published: August 10, 2009

VLC4iPhone is an application for both iPhone and iPod Touch that works on all firmwares 2.x and 3.x. Please note that it is not an official app, rather it has been developed by Zodttd who ported all VLC functionality into a simple app. The latest version(as of today) is 2.1.0 and contains a complete redesign along with better video playback functionality. For a complete review, please check out this post.

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VLC Player 1.01 Released – Download Now

By Nakodari | Published: July 28, 2009

It’s been only 3 weeks when VLC Player 1.0 was launched and the guys behind VideoLAN has since been hard at work. Today, they have officially released the update(version 1.01) with some minor bug fixes and improvements. The entire change log can can be seen here, but there is one interesting addition to the Mac version – Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys. Apart from the fixes, a few translations have been updated as well.

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8 New Features In VLC 1.0 That Will Make You Rejoice

By Nakodari | Published: July 8, 2009

VLC Media Player 1.0 gets launched after years in development, you download it instantly and launch it up. “Huh! There seems to be nothing new”, you proclaim. This is exactly what this post is about, showing you eight new useful features of VLC 1.0 that your faint eye can’t see otherwise.

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VLC Media Player 1.0 Released – Download Now

By Nakodari | Published: July 7, 2009

vlc-10-logoThe wait is finally over, the guys behind the VideoLAN Project have released the latest version of the long awaited VLC Media Player 1.0. Being a huge fan of VLC media player since the beginning, I have being following this project closely for quite some time. The latest version brings some serious goodies such as Live Recording, Instant Pausing(frame-by-frame support), Better Speed Controls, and much more. The full list of new features is available on the VideoLAN website. So what are you waiting for? Grab the latest version for your favorite OS now.

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Open .DAT File Extension In Windows Quickly

By Nakodari | Published: November 22, 2008

Do you have a .DAT file in your computer and don’t know  how to open it? Firstly .DAT file could be anything like a picture, video, data, email attachment, etc. To open .DAT file you will have to find out what kind of file it is, you can than convert the extension to open it easily. If you don’t know what kind of file it is, you can determine it too. More details after the jump.

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How To Download and Watch Dvdrip Movies With Subtitles

By Nakodari | Published: September 11, 2008

I have a little hearing problem which makes it a little difficult understanding what actors are talking in the movie. I usually see every movie with English subtitles, so when I don’t understand the dialogues, I can read them. This is very helpful for both ordinary people and hearing impaired people, I have seen people who can hear and understand the dialogues but still prefer to use subtitles so that they don’t miss a single dialogue.

Since I watch every movie with subtitles, many people have been asking me the best and easiest way to add it. So today I will share a post on how to download and add subtitles in Dvdrip movies.

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