VideoLAN - VLC media player

About VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a project, run by volunteers, backed-up by a non-profit organisation, which produces free and open source software for multimedia, released under the GNU General Public License.
Learn more about the VideoLAN project and organisation.

Our main software is the cross-platform VLC media player.

We are also the home of x264 and many other projects, like DVBlast, libDVDcss or VLMa.

About VLC

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols.

It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn't need any external codec, program or codec pack to work.


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VLC 1.0.3 and Mac OS X 10.6.2

2009-11-10

The VLC developers are glad to report that Apple's recently announced Mac OS X update to version 10.6.2 includes a fix which let's correctly you use the Apple Remote within VLC again. Prior releases of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 included a bug, which caused interferences with iTunes or DVD Player when using the Apple Remote in 3rd party applications. According to Apple, this update also addresses video playback and performance issues on certain setups.
Please note that VLC 1.0.3 is required to use the Apple Remote on Mac OS X 10.6.2.

VLC 1.0.3 Release

2009-10-31

The VLC developers are glad to bring you a new version of the award-winning VLC. This version brings a various improvements and fixes, and especially an important issue with Windows® 7 that worsened the video quality of the default output of VLC. VLC 1.0.3 has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be «Compatible with Windows® 7»
This release also provides new deinterlacer filters, fixes for the interface and the WMA Professional support on Windows.
Update: Binaries for Mac OS X are now available.

VLC 1.0.3 Release Candidate and Windows 7

2009-10-22

The VLC developers are very glad to offer you the first release candidate of the third minor update of the popular "Goldeneye" version of VLC.
This version brings a few improvements and fixes, and especially fixes an important issue with Windows® 7 that worsened the video quality of the default output of VLC. As Windows® 7 will be available today, the windows maintainers of VLC wanted to sync with this release.
This release candidate provides also updated translations, new deinterlacer filters, fixes for the interface and the WMA Professional support on Windows. Please test this release candidate and report bugs. Windows binaries are available.
Update: Binaries for Mac OS X are available here.

VLC is Compatible with Windows® 7

2009-10-10

Compatible with Windows 7 Logo The VLC developers are happy to announce that the latest version of VLC, 1.0.2, has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be Compatible with Windows® 7. This means that VLC is tested for compatibility and reliability on Windows® 7, has passed Microsoft designed tests to minimize the possibility of crashs, hangs, and reboot and installs cleanly and reliably.
While this shows that you can have confidence in installing VLC on your Windows® 7 installation, there are still bugs on the visual quality, depending on your video driver. See our wiki for more details.