VLC 1.0.0 Available

The team that bring us VLC, the uber-cool free video player, has made version 1.0.0 available. The program has been in beta for an eternity, but the improvements that have been made over the time it’s been out there have been remarkable. The program is very polished, and there’s an incredibly broad array of included codecs. Just about any video or audio file you can throw at the program can be played without an issue (though we still come across the occasional oddball file that nothing can open.)

As it’s free, open-source software, you can either get binaries for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BeOS, or get the source code and build it for whatever platform you need it for. (Though we imagine pretty much everyone who reads this particular blog will probably be downloading the Windows and Mac OS X versions the most.)

In addition to being versatile, it’s also not huge compared to a lot of other player downloads. So it’s also easy to take with you on a thumb drive so you can install it on a playback computer if you need to, so no matter where you need to show a piece of video, you can do it.