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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Multicat 1.0
2010-03-01
Multicat is a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams in particular.
VideoLAN is glad to announce the first public release of this new software, released under the GPL license. Visit the project page or proceed to download Multicat.
DVBlast 1.2
2010-03-01
The DVBlast team is happy to announce version 1.2 of DVBlast. DVBlast is a powerful and simple streaming application for DVB cards under Linux. In addition to numerous fixes, this new release also brings new features such as DVB-ASI or UDP/RTP inputs, and IPv6 support.
Visit the project page or proceed to download DVBlast. Please note that it requires libdvbpsi.
VideoLAN security advisory 1001
2010-02-28
A bug in Clam AntiVirus hinders use of VLC media player 1.0.5 for Windows.
VideoLAN at FOSDEM
2010-02-06
The VideoLAN team will be at FOSDEM in Brussels. If you have some time we will be happy to welcome you on our booth. We will do some demonstration about some nice features on the road for the next major release like extensions.
VLC media player
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- Free and Open Source cross-platform media player
- Supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
- Features a complete streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
- Learn more about this release now!
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Contribute!
VideoLAN welcomes all contributions to the project!
You can contribute time (documentation, packaging, development, tests, user support, ...),
material or even money. See the contribution
page for more information.
Help
For setup instructions, see the documentation section.
If you have a problem that is not covered in the documentation, look at the support page, web forums, the Wiki, the user mailing-lists and other support methods.