

You may want to do the conversion without losing video quality, then convert back.

But there's another easy option you could try that won't require a new player or plug-in! You can use transmuxing to change the video container, resulting in a playable video. There are lots of players and even though Perian is discontinued, you could certainly download what you need to play your file. Google around, and you'll learn you need to download a particular player, or a QuickTime plug-in called Perian. One example that comes immediately to mind is when you have a. Full power VLC and libav/ffmpeg are available in Packman and VLC repository.Sometimes you have a video that won't play easily on your system. For more information see the VideoLAN Wiki.įor some patent and legal issues, openSUSE cannot provide full function VLC and libav in official repositories. This results in better integration in KDE, but reduced integration in GNOME and Xfce). Until version 0.8.x the GUI was based on wxWidgets. It is also possible to apply color and audio filters. For example, you can watch a video which was recorded in a portrait format in landscape mode. In addition to having all the standard features of other video programs, several filters can be activated in real time. Stability is a highlight of the program, which can play incomplete or broken media files (ie. You can test it at the ZDF Mediathek website.

It can also play media files directly in the browser. VLC can be embedded in almost all browsers with the "mozilla-plugin". VLC can also be used as a streaming server for unicast and multicast networks in both IPv4 and IPv6.

It supports various audio and video codecs, DVDs, Video-CDs and several streaming protocols. The VLC media player (formally VideoLAN Client) is a portable free media player comprising a complete streaming solution by the VideoLAN team.
