VLC media player

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VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet. VLC is made by the non-profit foundation VideoLAN.

It started as a student project at the French École Centrale, Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries. (more about its history).

VLC is built in a modular way. This means that you can choose from a range of different modules to decide how to control VLC and how to display the video output.

Use VLC on your platform

Operating Systems Windows Windows CE macOS FreeBSD Solaris iOS Android

GNU/Linux GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux Ubuntu GNU/Linux Red Hat GNU/Linux Gentoo GNU/Linux SUSE Slackware GNU/Linux GNU/Linux Pardus Other GNU/Linux distros

Related Links

• History of the project
• VLC CodeNames
• VLC Home page
• VLC Features
• VideoLAN Wiki Home

HOW to

• Check out all the possibilities of what VLC can do
• Want to know HOW TO do things with VLC?
• Get help with some Common Problems
• View some of VLC's Awards

Tips and Tricks

• You can download extra Skins for VLC
• Add different interfaces to control VLC in different ways, such as from mouse gestures or even through the internet.
• Mad things you can do with VLC
• Notes about other clients (Interoperability)