VLC Features OS
On what operating systems can run VLC media player ?
| Windows 9x 98/Me | No (old versions work) | Although it is not supported anymore, versions prior to VLC 0.9.x should work flawlessly on Windows 98 and Windows ME.
You need to install the unicode package to make it work. |
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| Windows 2000 | Yes | |
| Windows XP | Yes | |
| Windows NT 4.0 | Yes (not supported) | Although it is not supported anymore, VLC should work on Windows NT4.0,
but with major issues due to the lack of a correct DirectX support. |
| Windows Vista / 2003 | Yes | |
| Windows 7 / 2008 | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | VLC works perfectly under linux.
The team supports the Debian version. However Ubuntu, Gentoo, OpenSuse, |
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| *BSD | Yes | VLC should work without any problem. |
| Solaris / OpenSolaris | Middle | VLC is buildable under Solaris after some adaptations.
Reports have said that those were doable. |
| Other Unixes | Middle | Same as Solaris |
| BeOS | Yes |
| Mac OS 9 | No | Mac OS 9 was never supported and will not be because of the deprecation of the platform. |
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| Mac OS X 10.1 | Yes (not supported) | VLC 0.7.0 |
| Mac OS X 10.2 | Yes (not supported) | VLC 0.8.4a
Requires 10.2.8 and QuickTime 6.5.2 |
| Mac OS X 10.3 | Yes (not supported) | VLC 0.8.6i
Requires 10.3.9 and QuickTime 7 |
| Mac OS X 10.4 | Yes | VLC 0.9.8a
Requires 10.4.9 (or later) and QuickTime 7 |
| Mac OS X 10.5 | Yes | Any current VLC release |
| Mac OS X 10.6 | Yes | VLC 1.0 or later |
| Windows CE | Middle | You can find some version here. |
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| Palm OS | No | No version done. Lacks a lot of features needed by VLC. Feel free to port it! |
| Symbian | No | No version done. Feel free to port it! |
| PSP | Yes, unsupported | There is a port of VLC on the PSP done by an external team. |
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| PS3 | Yes | VLC runs under YDL5 on the PS3. |
| OS/2 | No | No version done. Feel free to port it! |
