VideoLAN - VLC media player
About VideoLAN
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.
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VideoLAN at FOSDEM
2010-02-06
The VideoLAN team will be at FOSDEM in Brussels. If you have some time we will be happy to welcome you on our booth. We will do some demonstration about some nice features on the road for the next major release like extensions.
VLC 1.0.5
2010-01-31
VideoLAN and the VLC developers are very proud to announce their latest release of VLC. After more than 51 million downloads of VLC 1.0.3, this version is specially aimed towards Windows and Mac platforms, and brings various fixes, speed improvements and translations updates.
The Windows version benefits speed-ups from both an updated compiler (gcc 4.4.2) and codecs updates.
The Mac version brings support for the latest Apple Remote and updated codecs too.
Some antivirus have wrongly detected a virus in the Windows release, if you want the VideoLAN team can suggest better antivirus or operating sytem, on request.
Be careful, VLC 1.1 is on the road!
End of VideoLAN Dev Days '09
2009-12-21
The second edition of the VideoLAN Dev Days is now finished and was a great success.
New project were presented, ideas about the future of VideoLAN and VLC were shared and technical issues could be discussed.
We would like to thank a lot everybody who participated to the event and, of course, our great sponsors without this event could not happen : Epitech, région Île de France and Anevia.
VideoLAN Dev Days '09 J-1
2009-12-17
The VideoLAN organisation, the VLC, VLMa and DVBlast developers are inviting you to come and meet us, in Paris, France, from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th December 2009.
Open Party will happen on Friday night at La Cantine.
Other events will happen during 3 days: program and details. Free registration is mandatory!
VLC media player
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- Free and Open Source cross-platform media player
- Supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
- Features a complete streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
- Learn more about this release now!
Donate to VideoLAN:
This is the only source of revenue for VideoLAN, please help!
Contribute!
VideoLAN welcomes all contributions to the project!
You can contribute time (documentation, packaging, development, tests, user support, ...),
material or even money. See the contribution
page for more information.
Help
For setup instructions, see the documentation section.
If you have a problem that is not covered in the documentation, look at the support page, web forums, the Wiki, the user mailing-lists and other support methods.