VLC media player
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Template:Infobox Software 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
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)de:VLC Media Player