VLC media player VLC media playerDeveloped by VideoLAN


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Latest version:
1.0.0.99
License type:
Freeware
Home page:
www.videolan.org
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1441 members & 39823 guests
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VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer released under the GNU and has support for a wide variety of audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and other streaming protocols. It includes a large number of common encoding and decoding codecs like 3GP, AVI, FLV, QuickTime, MP4, Ogg, etc.
A great advantage is that VLC plays incomplete videos, opens broken videos from BitTorrent and plays ISOs without unpacking the file it is also well known for being able to play encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the DVD decryption library.
The Skin Editor allows designers to create skins for the application without the need of knowing XML or the internal makeup of skins. It provides an easy-to-use interface giving full control over all of the skin's features.

VLC media player can be used as a server and as a client to stream and receive network streams. The VLS (VideoLAN Server), can stream MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, television channels and live videos on the network in unicast or multicast.

Advantages:

  • Streming of video from any source or format, available for almost every Operative System.

Disadvantages:

  • Video on top selection, the window remains on top even if the video mode is changed to full screen. It keeps no history of the files played

Reviewed by: Raul Iniguez
Reviewer rating: Editor's rating 3

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Guest #382069 says 5 months ago #


Seems Software Imformer has some major issues with various "reports"
of newer versions. VLC is reported by SI to have a 0.9.0.0 version
out, when the latest version is 0.8.6f, among that, many others seem
to be invalidly reporting there's a newer version when there truely
is not.

Guest #193537 says 5 months ago #


Excellent media player, plays most anything. Streams to other clients on the network too.

Guest #327567 says 5 months ago #


this is the greatest media player on earth, thanks to developer

Joe says 5 months ago #


It's a great piece of hardware and I would purchase it if was not free!

Guest #259451 says 6 months ago #


i love this player...........
he he.......its my frnd..............

Guest #220371 says 6 months ago #


One of the best media players , converters & streamers ever.

Guest #276871 says 6 months ago #


Seems Software Imformer has some major issues with various "reports" of newer versions. VLC is reported by SI to have a 0.9.0.0
version out, when the latest version is 0.8.6f, among that, many others seem to be invalidly reporting there's a newer version
when there truely is not.

Guest #219121 says 6 months ago #


It is the only player found so far to play recorded files from my LG DVD recorder. ( VOX I think? )