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 1.1.2

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.

VLC 1.1.1 for Mac

2010-07-24

This is just a short update to inform our users that VLC 1.1.1 binaries for Mac Intel have arrived. They should fix the Multi-Channel crashes of the 1.1.0.
See release notes for more information.

VLC 1.1.1

2010-07-21

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.1, the first bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
After almost one month and more than 17 million downloads of the VLC 1.1.0, this release introduces numerous fixes and small improvements over VLC 1.1.0.
Source code and binaries for Windows are available, other operating systems will come later.
See the release notes for more information.

New project: libbluray

2010-07-17

A new project is now hosted by VideoLAN: libbluray.
Mostly made by developers from Doom9, this library aims at integration of Blu-Ray movies playback into media players, like VLC and VLC's competitors.
NB: This library does not break any DRM.

Rémi Duraffort: ZFS and shred

ZFS is a really powerful and convenient file system but the way ZFS works, makes some tools absolutely inefficient... ZFS: a short overview ZFS is a file system designed by Sun Microsystems. The file system is based on the Copy-on-Write [...]

Geoffroy Couprie: VLC 1.1.1 is out: GPU decoding for ATI

VLC 1.1.1 was just released! A lot of bugs were fixed, and now, GPU decoding works on ATI cards! You need Catalyst 10.7 to use DxVA on your ATI GPU. Other important news: libVLC has a lot of new useful functions, like libvlc_set_user_agent([...]

Jean-Paul Saman: VLC and girls

Who said VideoLAN and VLC is only for guys and geeks? Judging from this picture you are clearly wrong. At LinuxTAG the VLC stand attracted women, just when Hugo left the boot. I am not sure that has any correlation though ;). [...]

Rémi Duraffort: Saving memory for free

We have reduced the memory footprint of VLC media player only by repacking some important structures. Let's have a look at the way the structures are arranged in memory and its impact on the memory usage. Memory representation of a stru[...]

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2010-07-29 09:25 VLC 1.1.2 is out... We've found more bugs to squash, hence a new release for you... http://bit.ly/cvi2j6

2010-07-29 02:19 @Xploder270 http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-1.1.git;a=tag;h=26062e6aaa28972d441b558a6ee7d99eab1f8a4c

2010-07-29 02:18 @agilebob yes, this is a worry... Any cool ideas? Patches are welcome...

2010-07-29 02:18 @Brettski well Sparkle isn't able to do platform/arch differentiation... We switched to Sparkle after popular demand, but...