by Gee Jay M. Coleco
One of the greatest advantages of VLC over WMP is its compatibility with a wide array of operating systems. However, its features vary from one OS to another.
The following is a list of OS where VLC can be downloaded:
Binaries
- Windows
- MAC OS X
- BeOS
- Syllable
GNU/Linux
- Debian GNU/Linux
- Ubuntu
- Mandriva Linux
- Fedora
- openSUSE
- Familiar Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Slackware Linux
- ALT Linux
- Arch Linux
- YOPY/Linupy
- Zaurus
Source and other operating systems
For the other operating systems supported, there are no precompiled binaries. You will have to get the source code for VLC and its required libraries and build them yourself:
- NetBSD
- OpenBSD
- FreeBSD
- Solaris
- QNX
- Gentoo Linux
- Crux Linux
For the complete list of features and OS comparison, please click here, or copy this url to your web browser:
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Windows Media Player meanwhile is only available for a certain number of operating systems. Only two brand names, in fact -- Windows and Mac OS X. An older version of WMP is available for Solaris which is a UNIX-based OS.
The advantage of WMP, unlike VLC, is that there is a version available for Windows Mobile users. Although there was a proposal project before to create a mobile version of VLC, it was discontinued due to the lack of interest of the developers.
For the complete list of WMP versions available on Windows, Windows Mobile and Mac OS X, please click here, or copy this url to your web browser:
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