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.

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

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.

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Use VLC on your OS

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 distros

Other OS

• Mac OS X
• Windows
• BeOS
• FreeBSD
• Windows CE

Related Links

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