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VLC media player 1.0.0 debutsVLC media player 1.0.0 debutsPosted Jul 23, 2009 10:37 UTC (Thu) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)Parent article: VLC media player 1.0.0 debuts The inclusion of a wide selection of CODECs makes VLC easy to install and use I wish video players wouldn't do this. If the codecs were distributed seperately, then the free distributions (Fedora, Debian, etc) would be able to distribute the media players without the contentious codecs. The end user would then only have to grab the appropriate codec to play that media format. I understand that it's slightly more convenient for the end user that doesn't care about software freedom to have everything in a single package, but is yum install "vlc*" really that much harder than yum install vlc?
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VLC media player 1.0.0 debuts Posted Jul 23, 2009 14:01 UTC (Thu) by kjp (subscriber, #39639) [Link]
VLC is a god send for getting my webcam working from linux to my mother's windows box, due to the easy installation with bundled codecs (h264 anyone). Skype doesnt work with my webcam on linux, nor does google support video chat on linux.
There are plenty of other players that you can play build the codecs with.
VLC media player 1.0.0 debuts Posted Jul 23, 2009 14:03 UTC (Thu) by kjp (subscriber, #39639) [Link]
We tried ekiga too, and it's crashtastic on windows. Only vlc gets the job done.
VLC media player 1.0.0 debuts Posted Jul 23, 2009 18:32 UTC (Thu) by khc (subscriber, #45209) [Link]
vlc supports video chat?
VLC media player 1.0.0 debuts Posted Aug 2, 2009 15:42 UTC (Sun) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]
VLC supports network video streaming so probably yes, it is possible to make a kind of chat from it.
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