VLC media player

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VLC media player
Screenshot of VLC running on Mac OS X
Developer	VideoLAN Team
Latest release	0.8.1 / November 15th, 2004
OS	Cross-platform
Genre	Media player
License	GPL
Web site	www.videolan.org (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable media player for various audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. It uses the FFmpeg libavcodec media decoder to handle many of the formats it supports, and uses the libdvdcss DVD decrypter to remove the need for paying for a DVD decoding licence.

It is one of the most platform independent players available, with versions for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, PocketPC, Solaris, as well as versions for specific Linux packages.

On Windows, Linux, and some other platforms, VLC provides a Mozilla plugin, which lets people view some Quicktime and Windows Media files embedded in websites without using Microsoft or Apple products.

See also

• List of media players
• Comparison of media players

External links

• VLC media player homepage (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
• VLC media player nightly builds (http://vthr.via.ecp.fr/~videolan/)
• VideoLAN forum (http://forum.videolan.org)
• List of supported features (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html)
• #videolan IRC channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/videolan)sv:VLC

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) VLC_media_player (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player) version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=VLC_media_player&action=history) GNU Free Documentation Lizenz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License) CC-by-sa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/)

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