Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post

Johnny Rotten · 02-15-2004, 05:57 PM

I just noticed a few days ago that the Videolan home page was updated to mention their test release of a version of their media player that supports DTS. For those of you unfamiliar with VLC, it's (primarily) used for DVD playback on your computer (with a DVD drive). I've used it for a while now, and definitely recommend it as a free DVD software alternative. It has no spyware or adware that I'm aware of--it's just a GPL'd open source project. And all of my DVDs play on it, while I've gotten some horrible lockups using other stuff with some recently released movies. VLC also decodes Dolby 5.1 and AC3. I likes it! Oh, and it also works on Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, and a bunch of other platforms. I don't know why it's not more popular, but there you go.

02-15-2004, 05:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
Johnny Rotten lost and found Location: Berkeley	Videolan test release supports DTS! I just noticed a few days ago that the Videolan home page was updated to mention their test release of a version of their media player that supports DTS. For those of you unfamiliar with VLC, it's (primarily) used for DVD playback on your computer (with a DVD drive). I've used it for a while now, and definitely recommend it as a free DVD software alternative. It has no spyware or adware that I'm aware of--it's just a GPL'd open source project. And all of my DVDs play on it, while I've gotten some horrible lockups using other stuff with some recently released movies. VLC also decodes Dolby 5.1 and AC3. I likes it! Oh, and it also works on Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, and a bunch of other platforms. I don't know why it's not more popular, but there you go.