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 Mac OS X BeOS FreeBSD Windows CE iOS Android

GNU/Linux GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux Ubuntu GNU/Linux RedHat GNU/Linux Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) GNU/Linux Gentoo GNU/Linux SuSe Slackware GNU/Linux GNU/Linux Pardus 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)