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| Developer(s) | VideoLAN Project |
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| Initial release | February 1, 2001 |
| Stable release | 2.0.4 (October 18, 2012) [±] |
| Preview release | 2.1.0-git[1] [±] |
| Written in | C, C++, Objective-C using Qt |
| Operating system | Windows, OS X, GNU/Linux, Android, BSD, Syllable, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, iOS, MorphOS[2] |
| Available in | 53 languages[3] |
| Type | Media player |
| License | GNU General Public License v2 or later and LGPL[4][5] |
| Website | www.videolan.org/vlc/ |
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.
It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC can play:
- MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
- DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
- From satellite cards (DVB-S)
- Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
- From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)
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