Press Releases from VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a de-facto pacifist organization and cares about cross-countries cooperations, and believes in the power of knowledge and sharing. War goes against those ideals. As a response Russia's invasion of Ukraine, we decided to financially support the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and their work on aiding and protecting forcibly displaced people and communities, in the places where they are necessary. s

The VideoLAN project and the VideoLAN non-profit are pleased to announce a large mid cycle release of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS.

The VideoLAN project and the VideoLAN non-profit organization are happy to celebrate today the 20th anniversary of the open-sourcing of the project.

Following the recent revelations from Wikileaks about the use of VLC by the CIA, you can download the official statement from the VideoLAN organization here.

The VLC team is proud to announce the first port of VLC on the Apple TV!
VLC on the Apple TV allows you to get access to all your files and video streams in their native formats without conversions, directly on the new Apple device and your TV.

VideoLAN and the VLC development teams are proud to publish a major new release of VLC.
The 2.2.0 release of VLC media player for the desktop is coordinated, for the first time ever, with releases on iOS, Android (including Android TV), WinRT (Windows RT and x86) and Windows Phone.
VLC runs everywhere!

Press Release about VLC distributed decoding and conecoin
VLC starts a distributed codec and a new currency

We have exciting news to share. VLC for iOS will be back on the App Store today!
It will be available free of charge in any country, requires iOS 5.1 or later and runs on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
This is more than an upgrade of the initial version: it's a full re-write. It's way faster thanks to modern output modules for audio and video, offers multi-core decoding, and supports any video files available in VLC media player for desktop operating systems.

Today, the kickstarter campaign run by several core members of the VLC development team ended. £47,056 was pledged by 3080 generous backers. We would like to thank everyone who made this possible
This is a tremendous and somewhat unexpected success. We are very pleased about it.

Today, some VideoLAN team members launched a fundraiser on Kickstarter to support a port to the new User Experience on Windows 8 (aka "Metro") and Windows RT.

As announced in previous press releases, VideoLAN and VLC developers have completed the process of changing the license of most of the VLC playback modules to LGPL. In addition to last year's relicensing of the VLC engine, this allows the creation of fullly-LGPL playback applications, based on VLC technology.

As announced in a previous press release, VideoLAN and VLC developers have completed the process of changing the license of the VLC engine to LGPL. The École Centrale Paris shares its happiness about this change.

During the third VideoLAN Dev Days, last weekend in Paris, numerous developers approved the process of changing the license of the VLC engine to LGPL.

Press Release about Shoutcast Removal in VLC.

VideoLAN is seriously threatened by software patents due to the numerous patented techniques it implements and uses. Also threatened are the many libraries and projects which VLC is built upon, like FFmpeg, and the other fellow Free And Open Source software multimedia players.

Press Release about DADVSI and its impact on VLC

VLC media player to remain under GNU GPL version 2

Apple-VideoLAN partnership announced, Mac VLC to be Intel only

The VideoLAN website gets a new home

Following announcement by Cinema On the Web (COW) and DivXNetworks of the new COW video on demand service, the VideoLAN project team members were informed of a possible violation of VLC media player's license. The VideoLAN project, which owns copyrights to VLC, distributes VLC as free software exclusively under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).