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VLC is an open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, which plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player is simple, fast, and powerful. It plays everything, files, discs, webcams, devices, and streams. VLC plays most codecs (MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, etc.) so no codec packs are needed. It runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, etc. And VLC is hassle free with no spyware, no ads, and no user tracking.

Features

  • Simple, Powerful and Fast
  • Plays everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD, Blu-Ray), Webcams and Streams
  • Plays most video formats with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, H.264, DivX, MPEG-4, MKV, WebM, WMV
  • Works on most platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...
  • Completely Free, 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking
  • Media Converter and Streamer

Project Samples

Play Video VLC on Windows 7 VLC 1.1 on Win7 VLC on OSX VLC on Debian VLC 2.0 on Windows VLC on OS/2

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Categories

Live Streaming, Media Players, DVD

License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2), GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Android, Apple iPhone, BSD, Linux, Mac, Maemo, MS-DOS, Windows

Languages

English, French

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop, Information Technology, Telecommunications Industry

User Interface

Cocoa (MacOS X), Gnome, KDE, Qt, Win32 (MS Windows)

Programming Language

C, C++, Objective C

Related Categories

C++ Live Streaming Software, C++ Media Players, C++ DVD Software, C Live Streaming Software, C Media Players, C DVD Software, Objective C Live Streaming Software, Objective C Media Players, Objective C DVD Software

Registered

2010-04-29

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Anevia

French company founded by four members of the VideoLAN team (Brieuc Jeunhomme, Tristan Leteurtre, Damien Lucas and Alexis de Lattre - to know more about them, see the VideoLAN team page). Anevia sells professional video servers and provides development and integration of high quality video streaming solutions.

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