Video / MP3 player alternative.

[Geek-9pm]

VLC media player for Windows

Video /  MP3 player alternative.

Highly recommended.
Piratical alternative to Windows Media Player.



Click on this link first to select which OS.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html

It is FREE. No hassle. No nagware. Works great. Quick download. 

[kpac]

This software is pirated?

[Allan]

I've been using VLC for many years and it's a fine app, but actually I prefer GOM player
http://www.gomlab.com/eng/

[Allan]

This software is pirated?

No, of course not.

[kpac]

No, of course not.

I was making another lame attempt at being funny.

Piratical alternative

[Geek-9pm]

Quote from: Allan on Today at 01:26:34 PM
No, of course not.
I was making another lame attempt at being funny.

Quote
Piratical alternative

The term is correctly used in this context.

VLC is free and is not pirated.
It is a Piratical Alternative to Windows Media Player.

Glad you thought is was funny. 

Do I need to exclaim how a tool...
...can be piratical?
Don't everybody know?

[kpac]

Okay...didn't know it was a word. I thought you meant practical.

[Geek-9pm]

Yes. For pirates VLC is practical

VLC is used by Graboid.
Yes, that spelling is correct...
... and it means...
...just what you would expect.

[Allan]

And by the way Geek - what is it that you think "piratical" means?

[BC_Programmer]

The term is correctly used in this context.

is it? is it really? It means, "of or having to do with pirates". You said:

Piratical alternative to Windows Media Player.

Which means that it's an alternative to windows media player that has to do with pirates. But it has been shown, explicitly by you, even, that VLC is not pirated.

So the question is, if you used it properly... where is this association with pirates or pirating?

Clearly it was a mis-dictation by your speech to text software.

Yes. For pirates VLC is practical

That doesn't make it piratical. You are, again, obviously trying to cover up a misdictation by your speech software. Stop it. Everybody knows that a computer cannot perform that task perfectly yet, but to turn around and go "oh, it was totally on purpose, I'm so smart and can use words you guys don't understand, using definitions for said words that don't exist"> I mean, come on.

VLC is used by Graboid.
Yes, that spelling is correct...
... and it means...
...just what you would expect.

graboid isn't a word. I have seriously no idea what you are trying to do here.

[Allan]

Actually, the latest release of Dragon Speaking Naturally is pretty good. Just started testing it this week. And I doubt any text-to-speach software would substitute a non-word (piratical is not a word.... "piratic" is and "piratically" is but not, to the best of my knowledge. "piratical").

[BC_Programmer]

Actually, the latest release of Dragon Naturally Speaking is pretty good. Just started testing it this week. And I doubt any text-to-speach software would substitute a non-word (piratical is not a word.... "piratic" is and "piratically" is, but not "piratical").

I didn't think so either, but a define: gives three hits, one:

"of or having to to with piracy or pirates" sounds like a reasonable definition. Still not used in context here.

[Geek-9pm]

Windows Media Player, and some others, will not play media that appears to be created with a non-standard format, or some variation of a format, that could be used to hide or otherwise mask copyright information.

Specifically, Garboid has AVI movies that will not play on some players. They do not say why.  They recommend VLC. It can repair a slightly damaged AVI file.

Much of Graboid appears to be a massive grab-it-all-robot dragnet of what ever is out there.No mention is ever made of copyright license. Of course, I am likely being paranoid in suspecting that they might alter the AVI format to prevent copyright IDs from being embedded in the digital video stream.

[JJ 3000]

So the question is, if you used it properly... where is this association with pirates or pirating?

Well you could use VLC for watching pirated movies that you've downloaded. That makes sense to me. So I'd have to say that it is, in fact, piratical in some situations. Would that constitute improper use?

Also, when I saw the word Graboid, I immediately thought of that movie "Tremors". The monsters in that movie were called graboids. Anyone else seen that flick? If you haven't, you could probably just download a piratical copy and watch it with VLC.

[Geek-9pm]

JJ 3000, you are on target!

The graboid is a fictional creature that acts as the primary antagonist of the Tremors film series. As Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young explain, the "destruction of 'graboids', as they are quickly dubbed, becomes the central tension of the film."[1] The creature made its debut in the 1990 film Tremors, and reappeared in its three sequels and the Tremors: The Series television series. The graboid is based on the Mongolian Death Worm, which is also said to be a giant worm-like creature that attacks animals, and possibly humans. Within the film world, it is store owner Walter Chang who names them. The only other person in the first film to use the phrase "graboid" is Val McKee (Kevin Bacon).
According to http://UGO.com, "graboids are to the desert what sharks are to the ocean."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graboid

Pleas do not feed the Graboid.