Media, media, media - it just seems to replicate endlessly into diffrerent formats, codecs, protocols, size, quality etc. Over the years we have tried various ways to improve the user experience of the various well known media players - quicktime, windows media player, realplayer, intervideo etc. They never like to play content that is not exactly in the syntax they understand - and end users understandably give up at one of the various hurdles on the way.
Step forth Videolan to the rescue - it is part of our standard installation on all new PC's (without default file type associations selected so it is there in the background in case the other players won't work.)
Sure it hasn't got a snazzy interface - and technically it's still in BETA (after about 10 years of availability on the web).
Trust me it just works - it just seems to play any media file you throw at it. Download the latest version, install it and then run the application and point it to the file you are trying to play. Voila it works - basic, elegant and very effective. Enjoy.
-Jeremy
posted @ Monday, April 06, 2009 12:48 PM