VideoLAN: Free Multimedia Solutions

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VideoLAN is a project and a non-profit organization, composed of volunteers, developing and promoting free multimedia solutions. More about VideoLAN.

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Trust your multimedia software and codecs, all VideoLAN projects are free and open source. More about Open Source.

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VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedias files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

It is simple to use, yet very powerful and extendable.


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  • Simple, Powerful and Fast
  • Plays everything, Files, Discs and Streams
  • No codec packs needed
  • Completely Free
  • 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking
  • Media Converter and Streamer
  • Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix...

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VLC

The media player

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x264

Perfect Encoding

libdvdcss

DVD decryption library

DVBlast!

Simple but powerful DVB streamer

VLMa

VideoLAN manager for VLC streamers

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VLC 1.1.4

2010-08-27

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.4, the fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
An important class of security issues was discovered on Windows, and VLC and many other important applications on Windows are affected; see our security advisory.
Source and Windows builds are available.
See the release notes for more information.

VLC 1.1.3

2010-08-18

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.3, the third bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
Some more bugs were squashed and a potential security issue leading to a crash, was discovered. On top of that, this release introduces small fixes and improvements over VLC 1.1.2, for most platforms.
Source code and binaries for Windows and Mac (Intel) are available.
See the release notes for more information.
NB: first Windows installer were corrupted, please use the updated ones.

New project: libaacs

2010-08-10

A new project is now hosted by VideoLAN: libaacs.
Mostly made by developers from Doom9, this research project implement the public AACS specification.
NB: libaacs is a research project and does not distribute any key.

VLC 1.1.2

2010-07-29

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.2, the second bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
After just ten days of 1.1.1, some more bugs were squashed, hence a new release. This release introduces small fixes and improvements over VLC 1.1.1, notably on Windows.
Source code and binaries for Windows and Mac (Intel) are available.
See the release notes for more information.

Rémi Duraffort: Multicat

Multicat is an equivalent of the famous netcat but designed with streaming and especially RTP in mind. Multicat short introduction Multicat is an application that enables you to take any stream you want and restream it. This application [...]

Jean-Paul Saman: VLC and Axis RTSP network cameras

Many people wonder how vlc connects to an RTSP network camera (especially the Axis ones)? Well, the answer to this question is to use RTSP. What is this RTSP thing? RTSP is a application level protocol designed for controlling delivery of d[...]

Geoffroy Couprie: Update to a safer VLC

VLC 1.1.4 is out, with a fix for the DLL preloading attack! Read more about that issue in the release notes and the security advisory.[...]

Geoffroy Couprie: Fixing the DLL loading vulnerability

Update 24/08/2010: Microsoft published an advisory, there’s an article from the MSRC about the preloading DLL vulnerability, and a tool that fixes the problem. And if you want to know more, there’s an MSDN article. Update 25/08/[...]

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2010-08-27 01:12 VLC 1.1.4 for Windows is out http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/1.1.4.html

2010-08-27 01:21 @Gizmokid2005 http://bit.ly/bnEzO7

2010-08-27 12:58 VLC 1.1.4 on the way... Yes, this is exactly the same security as everyone else... Yes, all Qt applications on Windows are likely vulnerable

2010-08-26 03:58 @jbroger @nitot Nero n'est pas open-source... InfraRecorder, par contre, l'est.