VLC media player

VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

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Features

For more information about what features are supported on your operating system, please see the full features list. You can also have a look at some VLC screenshots.

Download VLC

Select your operating system to download precompiled binaries:

Windows	Mac OS X	BeOS
Debian GNU/Linux	Mandriva Linux	Fedora Core
Familiar Linux	YOPY/Linupy	Zaurus
SUSE Linux	Red Hat Linux	WinCE / PocketPC
Slackware Linux	Ubuntu Linux	ALT Linux

For the other operating systems supported, there are no precompiled binaries. You will have to get the source code for VLC and its required libraries and build them yourself:

NetBSD	OpenBSD	FreeBSD
Solaris	QNX	Gentoo Linux
Crux Linux

You can also directly get the source code:

Source Code

You couldn't find your OS / Distribution in this list but know where to find VLC media player builds elsewhere? Please Contact us so we can add a link.

Documentation

See the documentation page.