A while back, we covered Sublight, initially reviewed after its launch, and then later on when it reached version 2.6. For those who may not have heard of this application, it is a subtitle downloading utility that provides many robust options such as Windows Explorer integration, support for multiple media players including VLC, drag & drop support to insert videos, and the option to fetch subtitles from websites such as Divx Titlovi, SubDivx, PodnapisiNet, and AllSubs.

Recently, this feature rich subtitle downloader got updated to version 3, and now includes more useful features since our last review. These include the option to view TV Show air dates, the addition of prijevodi-online to the subtitle-fetching websites, support fore more media players, and languages. Hit the jump to read more on the new goodies.

Since version 2.6, Sublight has now added access to over a million subtitles for 100,000+ movies and TV shows. Users can now benefit from this tool in 19 different languages (for Sublight interface), and can download subtitles in 46 languages. You can play videos from within RAR files, choose default subtitle encoding (ANSI, custom code page, UTF-8, Unicode) and check TV Show air dates via eMovie Log website.

Sublight now supports up to 9 different video players, including BS Player, GOM Player, KMPlayer, Media Player Classic, MPC HomeCinema, SMPlayer, VLC Media Player, Windows Media Player and Zoom player. While other players may also work with Sublight, the aforementioned are the ones that are officially tested.

Another notable feature in the new version of Sublight is that it now has proxy support. This can be useful for users who have an internet connection that goes through a proxy server. You can specify the IP of your proxy server from Settings –> Proxy Settings.

The newly-added Air Dates option allows you to find out when the next episode of your favorite TV show is going live. Air dates are provided from eMovie Log website via your default browser.

Sublight version 3 also comes with a number of bug fixes, such as SublightCmd fix, which used to result in failed downloads due to the old library. Sublight works on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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VLC Player is a popular open-source, cross-platform media player that needs no long introduction. Whether you’re using Windows, MAC, Linux or any other supported operating system for that matter, you must have tried the media player at least once. Its universal support for virtually all known multimedia file formats make VLC Player a the default choice for many users. While the iOS variant of VLC Media Player is available on Cydia, it’s the Android users who’ve been eagerly waiting for the media player to be released to the Android Market. Well, that day might not be very far away as Android developer CVPC has just released a pre-alpha build of VLC Player. Details, screenshots and download links after the break.

It seems as if the developer, like most Android users (including me), thought it was about time the platform got its variant of the VLC Media Player and so decided to come up with a build of his own. The developer has created two variants of the app: NEON and NO-NEON for two types of processors.

Here’s how to find out your device’s processor type:

• Use any file manager with root access capability (Root Explorer, ES File Manager) to navigate to the /proc directory
• Locate and open file cpuinfo in HTML Viewer
• You should now be looking at detailed information about your processor. Try finding the word ‘neon’ in there
• If you find it, then you must download the NEON version of the player. If not, then continue with the NO-NEON variant (links at the end of the post)

In order to install the downloaded APK, you must have the Unknown Sources option checked (enabled) on the Menu > Settings > Applications screen.

VLC Media Player opens in video mode by default. There’s a button at the top-right corner to toggle between video and music mode. To start playing files, you must first specify directories on your device that contain media files. For this, tap Menu > Preferences > Directories and select the desired folder(s). Depending upon the selected player mode, you can view a list of all the music/video files on your screen.

We tested the player on a couple of our devices (Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Desire Z to be precise). While the APK was downloaded and installed successfully, the app itself – we must admit – did disappoint. When put to test with multiple video formats, the player seemed to take an eternity to list them all. Moreover, the quality of the video files that were played (eventually) wasn’t up to par as most of the files either did not run smoothly or were filled with playback glitches. Still, this is just a pre-alpha build and so it isn’t a big surprise that it isn’t ready to replace your default media player.

The video player offers you the option to switch between various screen aspect ratios and to lock the screen during playback to avoid pausing or skipping ahead by mistake.The music mode of the player played all tracks fed to it without any hiccups. When in music mode, you can see the various filters that can be used to categorize your music. Just swipe left/right on the screen to sort music by songs, artists, albums, genres and to view your playlists.

That’s about it. As mentioned earlier, the app is just a pre-alpha build so you might experience a few bugs and force-closes here and there or you might not be able to run it on your device at all. Still, if you like to get an early taste of what the final product might have to offer, you may download the APK for your device from the links provided below or head over to the app’s developer’s website (link provided at the end) for further information.

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[via CVPCS]

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From all the media players available out there, VideoLan VLC has the most comprehensive set of video and audio features which users may tweak with to fit their Audio/Video needs. If you work on video editing projects and use VLC to check different effects every time before permanently applying those effects like, color intensity, sharpness, gray scaling ,etc., to video in question, you must be manually changing the default video settings from VLC Preferences. VLC Launcher is an open source application, designed to define a wide range of audio and video parameters for specific set of media files, so you can watch them without having to manually apply the effects and to tinker around with other audio and video settings.

It comes handy in many situations. For example, I love to use the 5.1 speakers for HD movies but normal speakers for Music. You may, for instance, always want to watch specific part of a movie or listen to last 5 minutes of some audio track, just launch the application, specify required media file and define the start and end time range. When you launch the media file in VLC, it will start from the exact time you’ve specified.

It has almost all audio and video features and options which are available in VLC Media Player. After launching the application, under Base tab, select media file and start changing settings exclusively for specified media file, including, audio and video parameters, media file time range, process priority, always on top, repeat active media file, sound volume, DSP / equalizer.

Under Clip, you can define start and end time range and media playback speed.

The Audio tab contains equalizer for changing Global Gain and audio bands values. The Screen tab refers to tweaking with different screen modes, setting aspect ratio, video size, etc.

Under Chroma and Luma-GAMMA, you can change various video color specific settings, such as, saturation, brightness, DIMA image layout,  contrast and so on.

Similarly, you can change video sharpness and select logo image which you want to show over video. From Network, you can set browser and streaming settings. Once you’ve changed all the required settings, move to Base tab, and click Open With VLC to watch the video as per configured settings.

VLC Launcher works on all versions of Windows.

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Sometimes you’re sitting in a warm cozy bed, watching a movie on your big LCD Monitor placed alongside your PC at the other end of the room and the volume dies down or for some reason you need to pause it, what do you do? You get up, go all the way to the PC and do the necessary adjustments. However, as long as you’re using VLC Media Player and have an Android device connected on the same network over WiFi, you can use a remote control app for VLC player and control it while in bed, all from your Android device.

VLC Media player offers many remote control interfaces and one of them is the Web Interface. This grants remote control access to any computer/device connected across the same network.

What you’ll need :

• VLC Remote App for your Android device. [Link given below]
• VLC Media Player on your computer. [Link given below]
• WiFi Access for the Android Device over the same network as the PC running VLC Media Player.

How to :

• In case you don’t already have it, download and install VLC Media player on your computer.
• Download and install VLC Remote from the Android Market.
• Launch VLC on your computer.
• Goto View > Add Interface > Web Interface.
• Make sure that port 8080 is allowed by your firewall.
• Open up VLC Remote on your Android device & goto Menu > Settings.
• Look for your computer’s IP address on the available list of servers & tap on it. [Add your IP Manually if the automatically generated list does not have it.]
• After you connect to the IP of your computer, VLC Remote will instantly sync with your VLC Media Player and give you complete control of your player.

VLC Remote also gives you basic level control in terms of choosing the media to play from your home folder [Default: My Documents] & Full Screen toggle etc. To wind things up, we would like to mention the most brilliant feature of the application: if you get a phone call while you’re watching a video or listening to music and VLC Remote is connected, the app will automatically pause the playback and resume it automatically as soon as the call is ended.

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Install VLC Remote app from Android Market

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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).

On the main interface, you will find four main tabs, Playback, Last.fm Radio, Movie Trailers, and Video Library (which is actually both video and audio library). Just like Windows Media Player, you will find the recently playing media list on the right sidebar.

Both video and audio cover arts are downloaded and displayed in the video library tab where you can scroll to navigate between various media files seamlessly.

During audio playback, it will also show all the relevant options and controls along with CD cover art and embedded information. The visualizations can also be changed.

When playing video, the right-click menu offers all the useful options like playing DVD, streaming media, configuring audio properties, subtitles-specific settings and syncing options, etc.

One useful feature is that it uses OpenSubtitles.org to automatically find subtitles for the currently playing video. Users can also sync subtitles with the video, just like they can do it in VLC Player.

When trying out Movie Trailers tab, we found all trailers to be playing seamlessly. It streams the trailers directly from the famous Apple Trailers website.

The Last FM Radio tab actually calls Playlist.com service API. Since only paying subscribers of Last.Fm are allowed to stream radio from any external source, developer has replaced the service to Playlist.com, which works perfectly fine.

From main settings window, you can customize the A/V behavior, and change General and Information Panel-specific settings.

Kantaris Media Player has some nice features and is a good attempt by a lone developer, but it has a long way to go when compared with other mainstream media players. It runs on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and 7; testing was done on Windows 7 x86 system.

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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.

To begin with, launch VLC and click Show Extended Settings button to bring up EQ settings window. Under Graphic Equalizer tab, click Enable checkbox to enable the equalizer, select a Preset from the given list and start setting the EQ levels as required.

Once you have done setting up the EQ levels, note down the values from left to right (followed by postfix dB) and Preamp value which is also referred as Global gain (present at the left side ). Now close the Adjustments & Effects window and under Tool menu, click Preferences.

From bottom-left corner, enable All option to view advanced options of each category. From main navigation bar, expand Audio and then Filters category to select Equalizer. It will show you equalizer settings in the main window. Now in Bands gain input field, enter values (must be separated with single space) which you’ve noted down (excluding the db postfix) and in Global gain input field enter preamp value. You can also specify preset if needed. Once you have entered all values in required fields, click Save to save the EQ settings.

Now upon launching VLC again, EQ bars will remain unchanged and you can enjoy your favorite media without hassling with setting equalizer over & over again.

We have demonstrated this trick using latest VLC 1.1.0 release.

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VLC Player being 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 for controlling, managing, & customizing media files regardless of any format they belongs to. For novices, it come 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.

Lets glance at the most overlooked features it offer.

Extravagant Video Effects

VLC  include numerous aesthetic video effects, such as; Image adjustment, Transformation, Video cropping, Geometrical view & magnification, Video rotation, Color fun, and Image modification. You can access these video features through Extended Settings from main VLC IDE. Switching to Video Effects tab will show up these features in numerous tabs.

Basic Image Adjustments

VLC provides basic image adjustment options. Under Basic tab, you can play around with various color adjustments; Hue, Contrast, Brightness, Gamma, etc. On adjusting the color,  you can view changes in realtime. Color adjustment options can also be very helpful especially when you are playing a video, having noise, glitches and lacks normal color pattern.

Video Sharpness effect

Apart from basic image adjustment options, there is another much demanded feature which will let you adjust video sharpness up to the acme of clarity. Under Basic tab, enable Sharpen option and adjust the sigma control as required. It will show you the changes in realtime so you can promptly adjust sharpness accordingly.

Scrutinize the wonderful sharp effect it produced in the video shown below.

Transforming to different angles

The Transform option allows you to rotate video by multiple degrees. Enabling Transform option would activate the video rotation feature. It offers rotation in 90,180, and 270 degrees. This comes useful if you have a video that you recorded via the camcorder in a different angle.

Video magnification/Zoom in & out

Another intriguing feature is Video Magnification. Under Geometry tab, enable Magnification/Zoom option, to let it zoom in/out the video. You will see a small window at top left corner with main magnification control. Fill in the triangle by clicking it to zoom into the video. To view the desired video portion, move the square capturing screen across the box.

Video Rotation

With an excellent rotation feature, you can rotate the video in any direction. Enable Rotation option, and start moving the rotary control in circle.

Add a bit fun with Puzzle Game

The moment you hit Puzzle game option, it would turn the video into puzzling pieces. Enter number of columns & rows in which you need to solve out video puzzle. It divides the video into specified chunks on the screen.

Under Color fun tab, you can play around with colors, there is absolutely no list of colors to select from. You can write color code to introduce it in the video. Apart from this, through Color Extraction option, you can enter a specific color code to extract it from the video.

Panoramic view (Optimal for Muti-Screen)

Vout/Overlay is another superb feature, allowing video junkies to spread the video on the desktop wall in multiple windows. In this way, you can individually handle, manage and change the position of the video parts separated in windows. To make this effect look awesome, try it on a large HD TV or projector. On the left side enabling Add text option would add the text in each window.

Adding Logo

Overlaying logo option comes in handy, you can easily insert a logo (PNG/JPG format) in the video as a watermark. It also helps in overlaying existing logo with an image. To make use of this feature, under Logo tab, specify the full path of image where it is residing, adjust transparency control and allocate the position. The importance of this feature is that you can add the company logo while giving a video presentation.

Synchronization

Kudos to VLC for bringing up sync feature, those who haven’t used it yet, really missed out an important one. Under Synchronization tab, you can manually manage the A/V (Audio/video) sync and deal with them by adjusting the time. Most of the converted videos lacks A/V sync primarily because of change in FPS (Frames Per Second), this actually invokes the problem of either video or audio lagging behind. For adjusting the A/V sync problem, change the values in Advance of audio over video input pane, positive value refers to as video is lagging behind and conversely is the case with negative values which refers to as audio lagging behind.

Right beneath A/V sync settings, you will find Subtitles settings, to make subtitle properly sync with video, i.e, appears on right time. Adjust the timing in a way as defined in aforementioned criteria for A/V sync, positive values refers to subtitles showing up ahead of video. At the bottom, you can change subtitles speed. It may happen sometimes, on downloading subtitles from different source, or from different author, the speed (FPS) is not aligned with the video FPS, i.e, video running on different FPS and conversely subtitles FPS differs. To cope up with this problem, speeding of the subtitles option helps amazingly.

Record Webcam Video

Recording video from a webcam is another awesome feature VLC offers. It automatically populates the list of devices attached with your system. To record a video from the Webcam, under Media menu, click Capture Device. From Video device name, select the webcam device and click Play. It will turn on the webcam, from it’s main IDE, you can start recording the video instantly

Bookmarking media

Now this must be surprising to most users. Did you know that you can bookmark as well? VLC allow users to bookmark media files, whether you are playing it from local media, or streaming it from any remote location. You can instantly bookmark the media file and access it anytime later.

Advance Open File

Bluray DVD discs & rips comes with separate audio channels for giving the real effect of surrounded sound. Unlike others, VLC features Advance Open File option, which allows you to open a video file along with the separate audio file (if existed). You will find rip-less video synchronization with the external audio file ‘phenomenal’. Next time, you are planning on playing Bluray rip, take a whir of this feature.

Take Snapshots (PNG,JPG format supported)

As VLC offers instantaneous pause and allows playback in frames, as you can see here. You might need to take a snapshot of either specific frame or an instant paused frame. Guess what? VLC lets you take screenshots as well. You can capture a frame either by pausing the video, or while playbacking video frame-by-frame. To take snapshot more promptly assign a hotkey to snapshot feature from VLC Preferences. Otherwise from Video menu, click Snapshot to capture a screenshot of a frame.

Customize Interface

There are so many features & functions VLC offers which makes it distinctive from others, Among those features, one is interface customization feature. Under View menu, you will find Customize Interface. It allows you to; change menus, buttons, add/delete buttons, change layout of main layout, and change playback controls positions as well.

Here you can see some customizations that I have performed on the main interface.

Debug Logging

Want to know what went wrong with Video FPS, codecs you are using, why some feature is not compatible, or why you are encountering lagging and other relevant issues? VLC can tell you about any problem. With it’s intrinsic Debug logging feature, it can inform you about info like; lack of correspondence (in Network), video discrepancy, why feature is not supported or not compatible, which codec is missing, app crash, and erratic A/V halt due to unidentifiable reason. To view log, from View menu, under Add Interlace, click Debug logging.

The journey doesn’t stop here, apart from the features we have covered above, they are still a lot more small ones. The developers are also adding new features and functionality with every new release. You might also be interested in our previously covered article on VLC’s 8 Useful Features.

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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?).

It has both an eye-candy interface and integrates better with both Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. Have a look at it’s skin in the screenshot below:

The buttons, interface, and practically everything is redesigned and fits far better now. Mac users who are long annoyed by the default skin of VLC can give this a shot. No doubt they will love it.

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It works with Mac OS X 10.4 and up. Enjoy!

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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.

Most of you already know that ISO is a CD or DVD image, also commonly referred as disk image. It is actually an archive file which is used to backup CDs or DVDs. You can mount it into virtual drive using various ISO mounting tools and also burn it. But what if you have backed up your DVD movie into an ISO image and want to play it directly without mounting it?

Guess what? VLC Media Player takes care of this problem as long as the DVD structure is intact(meaning that it must have the exact same folders that are in your DVD, such as, Video_TS folder). You already knew that, right? But most people don’t know, including me until today.

You just have to hit Media > Open File and select the ISO image of the backed up DVD movie.

Note that the video will fail to play if the directory structure of ISO image is not similar to that of DVD’s. Having said that, I believe this feature is a total killer and has been around for more than 2 years. Am I too late in discovering it? Did you know about this feature? Shout your experience in the comments below.

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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.

Update: The official VLC Media Player is now available in iTunes. Read more about it here.

All previous versions were free, but the developer likes to categorize the latest version as ‘Donate and Download’. It doesn’t mean that you cannot download it for free, you can, but donating a small amount is always a healthy practice since it helps in further development of the app. But what about those people who cannot donate or those people who don’t have a PayPal account?

Note: It is only available from Cydia Store which means that you must have Jail broken iPhone before downloading VLC4iPhone. It doesn’t matter which firmware you are using, since it supports all of them.

To download it for free without donating, first launch Cydia Store, hit Search, type VLC, and select vlc4iphone from the list.

Now don’t rush and hit Install. Wait for the page to load, scroll down, click the amount 2.50 as shown in the screenshot below.

From here you will find various money options for donations, keep scrolling and you will find FREE at the end.

Select FREE and then click Done. Once you are back to the main page click ‘Donate and Download’ button.

It will load a small white page whose content can be hardly read. Actually it is written Success, which means that not you can head back to the main page and click Install.

It is almost 13.3 MB big file, so make sure you are connected to some Wifi, otherwise be ready to pay hefty amount of bucks to your cellular provider.

Selecting Free option is quite tricky since it is hidden at the button of donate money options. But if you can’t donate, then downloading it for free makes sense. We strongly recommend that you support the development of this awesome app by donating and commenting.

VLC4iPhone Official Website

Enjoy!

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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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In case you missed What’s New In VLC 1.0, check out the whole guide here. Enjoy!

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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.

Instantaneous Pausing

“Is this even a feature?”, say ex-vlc fanboys who have ported over to other media players. In fact, this is one of the many features that has been requested for such a long time. Instantaneous Pausing allows a user to pause any video the moment he/she hits the pause button, no more delays. It pauses at the exact frame(without skipping) which is quite impressive.

Live Recording

Yup, you heard it right. The latest version now supports on-the-fly recording for all type of medias. In case you are wondering how to make recording easier, go to View menu and hit Advanced Controls. You will now see a Record button next to control buttons.

Frame By Frame Playback

So you are watching a superhero movie with your friends and a huge explosion goes off. To enjoy it once again, you can now go over it frame-by frame with the frame by frame playback functionality. When you enable advanced controls from the View menu, apart from Record, Snapshot, and Loop buttons, you will find the Frame-by-Frame Playback button. Clicking it once will move your video to the next frame, pressing it again will move it to another frame ahead and so on.

Before VLC 1.0, if you had to take a snapshot of any part of the video the quickest way would be to hit snapshot button at the right time during the video. If you don’t get lucky, an alternative way is to try hitting the Pause button which will actually pause the video after missing few seconds. Frame by frame playback makes tasks such as snapshot much more easier.

Customizable Interface

So you don’t like the look, right? No problem, now you can customize the interface according to your own styles and needs. Simply head over to the View menu and hit Customize Interface. Now go ahead and select the buttons that you want, the position at which you want them, and much more. There are also some pre-configured Profiles that you might want to try out.

AirTunes Streaming

For those who don’t know what is Airtunes streaming, it is a functionality for Apple’s Airport Express that allows you to play media files on your home stereo speakers. Originally it was developed to work with iTunes but now VLC has officially added the support for AirTunes streaming as well.

If you have Apple’s Airport Express properly installed, all you need to do is to load up your favorite media file on VLC Media Player, head over to the playlist, right-click the media file and hit Stream. Ofcourse you will need to tweak some basic settings later, but it works flawlessly.

Full screen Interface/Minimal View & Better Video Scaling

Whether you have an old 17” monitor or the latest 40” LCD, VLC Media Player will now scale your videos better in fullscreen mode. Don’t get confused between Fullscreen Mode and Fullscreen Interface, the former is the same old fullscreen when you double-click the video, while the later is the new functionality. Fullscreen interface and Minimal view, both can be accessed from the View tab and are important in their own terms.

- Fullscreen Interface comes useful when you have to watch the video in fullscreen and at the same time want access to the menus. (Hotkey: Ctrl+H)

- Minimal view comes useful when you want to watch the video in fullscreen mode and keep watch on other windows in the taskbar as well. (Hotkey: F11)

Finer Speed Controls

Remember the good old days when you were able to easily forward and reverse your movie in the VHS Player, such a functionality is back in the latest release of VLC but in a whole new way. Head over to the Playback menu and you will find all types of Speed Controls from faster/slower to jump forward/backward.

New Formats And New HD Codecs

If you are searching for a good video player that can play HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movies seamlessly, you just found one. The latest release of VLC brings many new HD codecs, formats, and adds some improvement to various Demuxers and Encoders. Now you can play Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies without any lag.

Note: If you experience lagging while playing HD Movies, make sure that your hardware actually supports it before complaining about VLC to the developers.

Miscellaneous

Apart from the features that we have mentioned above it now also supports two new playlists: Windows Media Player Playlist(WPL) and Zune Playlist(ZPL). It also brings some core improvements to the subtitles and allows you to export the playlist in HTML format. Another important improvement has been made to the video when running in fullscreen mode, you can now zoom inside while keeping the black borders. To see the full list of changes, check out the changelog.

Haven’t downloaded the latest version yet? You can still grab it now.

Download VLC 1.0

Enjoy!

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The 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.

Download VLC Media Player 1.0

Enjoy!

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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.

.DAT file is never associated with any one program. You can try opening it with notepad and MS Document. If it is a chat session or some text document then it will display the content, otherwise it will show some rough data that only programmers can understand.

Your .DAT file could be anything like a video file or a document, the best way to determine would be to add different extension in place of .DAT extension and see if it works. To do this, follow the method below.

Go to Tools > Folder Options and click View tab. Now uncheck the Hide Extensions For Known File  Types checkbox and click OK.

Now you will see file extension at the end of every file on your computer. Now change the extension of your .DAT file to .JPG, .PNG, .DOC, .XLS, .AVI, one by one and check if it works. Opening it with IrfanView might solve the problem, as it opens most Picture and Video extensions.

If this method doesn’t work, then it means either you have a Email Attachment, or a Video file.

Winmail.Dat Email Attachment

If you have a file named  Winmail.dat, this means you have received this file as an attachment in the email and the sender has used Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or MS Exchange Server to send you this mail.

To easiest way to open it is to use an online converter called WinMailDat.

VCD Video File

If you find a video file in .DAT extension. You can easily open it using VLC Media Player. But if you want to convert it so that it can be easily played on other video players than you can use VCD Gear to convert .DAT extension to .MPG easily.

That’s all. If it solves your problem, don’t forget to say thanks. If you are still in trouble, feel free to leave a comment.

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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.

Downloading Dvdrip Movies and Subtitles

I usually download Dvdrip movies from 2 uploaders, FXG and aXXo. Many people are familiar with aXXo calling him a legend, but I will recommend FXG for some movies which aXXo has not released so far(such as IronMan).

• Movies uploaded by FXG can be found here
• Movies uploaded by aXXo  can be found here

Subtitles are not embedded in these movies as default, they are available as a separate file. FXG usually uploads the subtitle(.srt) file along with the movie in a single torrent, while aXXo uploads subtitles separately which can be downloaded from here.

Installing The Media  Player

Dvdrip movies are in .avi format, which many media players run poorly. I will recommend VLC media player, which plays every video format without a glitch.

Installation is quite easy, make sure that you install all contents of VLC player, some of them can be helpful in the future.

After the installation is complete, run the media player, it will look something like this.

Adding The Subtitle In the Movie

After finding and downloading the subtitles, make sure that both movie and subtitle file are in the same folder.

Before you play the movie, open the VLC player and navigate to Settings > Preferences.

Now on the left sidebar navigate to Video > Subtitles/OSD.

Click Browse and then locate your subtitle file and click Open and then click Save in the preferences box. Now close the VLC player and then play your movie with VLC player and you will see the subtitles displaying with the movie.

If the subtitle is not displaying, right click on the screen and navigate to Subtitle track and then select Track 1.

I hope this tutorial helps, if you need to ask any question, leave a comment and I will hit you back.

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