VLC media player

VLC media player Overview

The best free media player for video and DVDs

VLC is an open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, which plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. VLC media player is simple, fast, and powerful. It plays everything, files, discs, webcams, devices, and streams. VLC plays most codecs (MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, etc.) so no codec packs are needed. It runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, etc. And VLC is hassle free with no spyware, no ads, and no user tracking.

Additional Details for VLC media player

Languages

French, English

Intended Audience

Information Technology, Telecommunications Industry, Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Gnome, Win32 (MS Windows), KDE, Cocoa (MacOS X), Qt

Programming Language

C++, C, Objective C

Registered

2010-04-29

Last Updated

2016-06-02

Categories

Streaming, Display, DVD

Maintainers

fkuehne, kempfjb, sf-editor1, thresh_alt