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VLC features list
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| Input media | UDP/RTP Unicast |  |
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| DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV) | |
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| MPEG encoder 3 | |
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| Video acquisition |  Direct Show |
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| Input formats | MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3) | |
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| WAV (incuding DTS) | |
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| Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52 | |
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| Standard MIDI | |
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- DVD decryption is done through the libdvdcss library.
- VLC on GNU/Linux, Solaris, and Microsoft Windows has playback control support via libcdio and libvcdinfo. On other platforms, SVCD support varies depending on the availability of these libraries. (Volunteers for adding support are always welcome.). Handling still frames (often used in menus) and switching between different video formats is problematic.
- VLC for GNU/Linux supports V4L2 compatible encoding cards as well as two kinds of MPEG-2 encoding cards: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250/350 and Visiontech Kfir.
Video
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| Decoders | MPEG-1/2 | |
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| MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4 | |
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| H.263 / H.263i | |
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| WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 | 4, 5 |
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| Indeo Video 4/5 (IV41, IV51) | |
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| Real Video 6 | |
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| Subtitles | DVD 7 | |
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| Closed captions | |
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| Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer) | |
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| Filters | Deinterlace | |
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| Cropping | |
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| Image adjust | |
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| Logo overlay | |
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| Outputs | Native | Direct3D DirectX GDI |
OpenGL Quartz 8 |
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Qte/X11 |
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- WMV-3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 playback is provided through the FFmpeg-library starting with VLC 0.8.6.
- Windows DMO codecs can be used by VLC on 32-bit x86 platforms and allow WMV-3/WMA-3 decoding. This feature is untested on Intel-based Macs.
- VLC's 0.9.0 release will introduce support for RV30 and RV40 based upon the additions to the FFmpeg-library by one their Google Summer of Code 2007 projects.
- Full color for YUV-type chromas is not handled, only the gray-scale value. Subtitle transparency is not fully supported for all chromas. Some chromas are not handled at all.
- The Quartz module is available on PowerPC-based Macs only.
Audio
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| Decoders | MPEG Layer 1/2 | |
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| MP3 | |
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| Filters | Visualization effects | |
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| Equalizer | |
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| Outputs | Native | DirectX WaveOut |
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| S/PDIF | DirectX WaveOut |
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- Real Audio playback is provided through the FFmpeg-library which does only support a limited number of RA derivatives.
Streaming
See the Streaming features page
Interfaces and control
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| Telnet | |
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| Command line | |
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- A new Qt4 interface is to-be-introduced by VLC's 0.9.0 release. It is already enabled in the nightly builds with limited functionality.
Miscellaneous
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| SAP/SDP announces | |
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| Bonjour protocol | |
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| SVCD Menus | |
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| Localization | |
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| CD-Text 12 | |
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| IGMPv3 13 | |
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| IPv6 13 | |
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- CD-Text information provided via libcdio. This service is available on all platforms supported by the library.
- Depending on the operating system's support.
- Supported CPU extensions are MMX, MMXEXT, SSE, SSE2 and 3D Now! on x86 processors, and AltiVec on G4/G5 processors.
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- = Untested
