Finally in its 1.0 release, VLC Media Player is simply the most stable, flexible and lightweight audio and video players around today. While other media players will play unusual formats after downloading a codec, or simply refuse to play things, VLC will not complain. In addition to this, you can also use it to preview files you are downloading, because it will play parts of files. It takes no time to start up either, so opening it up to preview something is no trouble at all.
VLC Media Player has great hotkey support, if you take the time to learn the shortcuts, so can be controlled without touching your mouse. The interface is functional, but by no means attractive. If you're watching DVDs or video files through it, this is not an issue. For music, it plays more or less any file and features an equalizer and playlist creation. It isn't as intuitive as iTunes as a media manager, but it's a much more flexible player in terms of file formats.
For video, VLC Media Player is the best application you will find. It's minimal interface is great for viewing, it's got excellent tools for effects, and doing things like adding subtitles is easy.
VideoLAN is a project, run by volunteers, backed-up by a non-profit organisation, which produces free and open source software for multimedia, released under the GNU General Public License.
Learn more about the VideoLAN project and organisation.
Our main software is the cross-platform VLC media player.
We are also the home of x264 and many other projects, like DVBlast, libDVDcss or VLMa.
About VLC
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols.
It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn't need any external codec, program or codec pack to work.
VideoLAN News
Subscribe to newsfeed. Read developers' blogs and news.VLC Skin Editor 0.8.5 is out!
2009-08-13
The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the VLC Skin Editor.
This version brings again bugfixes and performance improvements but also new features. Among these is the ability to edit Slider curves with the mouse and support for the generation of vertical slider backgrounds. Downloads are available on the Skin Editor page.
VLC 1.0.1 is out!
2009-07-28
VideoLAN is pleased to announce the release of the second version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.1!
3 weeks after the release of 1.0.0, and with almost 14 million downloads, this minor version fixes most of the notable bugs and regressions that were present in the 1.0.0 version.
Notable fixes and improvements include:
- fix flv and mpeg2 seeking,
- fixes for wmv, wav, rtsp and ssa support,
- fixes for Qt and Mac OS X interface,
- fix an integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module,
- updates of some translations,
- port of the ZVBI module to Windows for full teletext support and
- codecs updates for Windows and Mac OS X versions.
This version is ready to download! Learn more details about this release!
Press and related questions should be forwarded to VideoLAN.
VLC 0.9.10
2009-07-28
VideoLAN is pleased to announce another bugfix release for the Grishenko branch of VLC.
This version mostly targets the Mac OS X 10.4 platform. It includes various improvements and bugfixes for this port as well as updates to access, stream out and decoder modules plus certain third party libraries. The integer underflow fix from VLC 1.0.1 is also included. More details are available on the wiki.
We recommend all Mac OS X 10.4 users to update to this release. Download now.
VLC 1.0.0 hits 3 million downloads
2009-07-10
After less than 3 days, the 1.0.0 release of VLC has hit more than 3 million downloads on the download counter. We would like to thank the people who have downloaded it and especially, people who have donated to our cause.
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