VLC media player
VLC media player is a media player, streamer, and encoder for Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC. It can play from many inputs like files, network streams, capture device, desktops, or DVD, SVCD, VCD, and audio CD. It can play most audio and video codecs (MPEG 1/2/4, H264, VC-1, DivX, WMV, Vorbis, AC3, AAC, etc.), but can also convert to different formats and/or send streams through the network.
| Tags | multimedia Video Display Sound/Audio Players |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | BeOS POSIX Mac OS X Windows Windows CE |
| Implementation | C Assembly C++ Objective C |
Recent releases
- 07 Jul 2009 15:09
Changes: This release introduces major new features and fixes a lot of bugs. New features include newly supported codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, and more), newly supported formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, and more), and major improvements in support for many formats, live recording, instant pausing, and frame-by-frame support. The interface for Linux and Windows has been improved and a new default skin is used.
- 02 Apr 2009 17:40
Changes: This version introduces many bugfixes (including libxml integration, RTP support, and resampling when transcoding). It also features a new decoder for Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, and a partial rewrite of Real demuxer. It includes fixes for Windows, as well as full-screen support and new translations.
- 11 Feb 2009 07:50
Changes: This is a release candidate for the upcoming 0.9.9 version. It fixes many bugs and brings native RealVideo support.
- 05 Dec 2008 21:42
Changes: A buffer overflow in the Real demuxer, reported as CVE-2008-5276, was fixed. Several other minor bugs were fixed.
- 09 Nov 2008 21:05
Changes: This version fixes security issues in RealText and CUE demuxers.
- All comments
Recent commentsOh and just as an additional info (I forgot to add this in my first comment): beside, as mentioned, being able to handle CDs/DVDs with "bad sectors", VLC is also capable of handling CDs/DVDs that produce those "An error was detected during a paging operation" entries/events in the Windows Event Viewer.
Wonderfull
Agreed, VLC is a "must have", because beside many other things, it's the only one of the many multi-media players that I use (MPC, BSPlayer, Koala Film Player, Crystal Player etc.) that actually can handle CDs/DVDs with "bad sectors", meaning that it doesn't stop (and possibly freeze the file-manager; the only thing that usually can solve that is opening/closing the CD/DVD drive) in the middle of playing.
VLC is a must : it's complete, very stable, efficient *and* simple to use. I can't recall it ever failing at reliably playing any media file I've thrown at it. Thanks to the VideoLan people for such a great product.
This media player is the most versatile player I have ever used. It will play any format you can throw at it without a blink. The entire codex are included with the download, it’s free of all the bloat. I highly recommend the VLC Media Player.