VLC 0.9.9: The best media player just got better
Found on CNet News on Friday, 03 April 2009
If you've ever struggled to play a file you downloaded from the hinterlands of the Web, you clearly didn't try opening it with VideoLan's VLC media player, a free, hugely popular, and open-source media player.
Whether you just want to play media files or also want to convert them, VLC can handle just about anything you throw at it. When all other media players fail, whether on Windows, Linux, or the Mac, VLC will almost always deliver.
Sorry, but no. VLC might have been good in the past, but today, it's nothing one can truly recommend anymore. It had a more than poor handling of subtitles for a long time, something that drove lots of users away from it. There's also an annoying bug with ogm files that still exists.