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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
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VLC icon VLC media player VLC is a powerful media player playing most of the media codecs and video formats out there.
VLMC icon VLMC VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation.
For Professionals
DVBlast Icon DVBlast DVBlast is a simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.
multicat multicat is a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams and TS.
x264 Icon x264 x264 is a free application for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.
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libdvdcss libdvdpsi libVLC libbluray libaacs libdca biTStream
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News & Updates

VideoLAN at SCALE 10x
2012-01-15

VideoLAN will have a booth (#74) at the Southern California Linux Expo at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel next week-end. The event will take place from Friday throughout Sunday. We will happily show you the latest developments and our forthcoming major VLC update.

multicat 2.0
2012-01-04

VideoLAN is happy to announce the second major release of multicat. It brings numerous new features, such as recording chunks of a stream in a directory, and supporting TCP socket and IPv6, as well as bug fixes. Also aggregaRTP was extended to support retransmission of lost packets.

DVBlast 2.1
2012-01-04

VideoLAN is happy to announce version 2.1 of DVBlast. It is a bugfix release, fixing in particular a problem with MMI menus present in 2.0.

VLC engine relicensed to LGPL
2011-12-21

As previously stated, VideoLAN worked on the relicensing of libVLC and libVLCcore: the VLC engine.
We are glad to announce that this process is now complete for VLC 1.2. Thanks a lot for the support.

VLC 1.1.13
2011-12-20

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.13, a bug and security fix release.
This release was necessary due to a security issue in the TiVo demuxer.
Source code is available.

Development Blogs

Felix Paul Kühne: Final design of VLC 2.0 for Mac

Since the release of VLC 2.0 is approaching, I thought it was time to publish its final interface design by Damien Erambert. Jean-Baptiste Kempf and me started to collect ideas for this interface in the summer of 2008. After slightly chao[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: It's over 20,000!

I did over 20,000 posts on the Videolan Forums to answer questions... You can check my profile. Of course, I am far under VLC_help, who is at 23,700+ posts, but still, it's not too bad... A lot of trolls and misunderstanding are there[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VLC 2.0 pour MacOS X

Intro La nouvelle version de VLC, nommée TwoFlower ou 2.0, apporte de nombreuses améliorations et modifications spécifiques à MacOS X. Ce petit article permet de passer en revue ces améliorations, qui sont souvent peu décrites dans l[...]

Felix Paul Kühne: Updated VLC 2.0-RC1 builds for Mac

Due to packaging errors, the builds for Intel did not perform as described in the last post. They do so now. Thus, the crashes on Snow Leopard when using the 64bit build and on Leopard when using the 32bit build are gone. The downloads ar[...]

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2012-02-13 12:24 RT @PackLiberte: Merci à @videolan pour son soutien à la campagne https://t.co/qNBYkNJt voir http://t.co/a4V1aZyK #DRM #swpat #PackLiberte

2012-02-13 11:47 @attias_david removing buttons, is very hard, because of different usages: stop is useful for streams/DVDs, equalizer for music, etc...

2012-02-13 09:32 @attias_david which buttons?

2012-02-13 12:42 RT @feepk: VLC 2.0 for Mac's final interface design: http://t.co/58DyMSPP