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.


Other Systems, Versions
  • 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 1.1.4.1

2010-09-27

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present VLC 1.1.4.1, a fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. This release does only target PowerPC-based Macs. It is the first release of this branch for this platform and includes all the features, improvements and bug-fixes you have been waiting for.
This is a security update, so we recommend all users to update to this new version (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004).

VLC 1.1.4

2010-08-27

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.4, the fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
An important class of security issues was discovered on Windows, and VLC and many other important applications on Windows are affected; see our security advisory.
Source and Windows builds are available.
See the release notes for more information.

VLC 1.1.3

2010-08-18

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.3, the third bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
Some more bugs were squashed and a potential security issue leading to a crash, was discovered. On top of that, this release introduces small fixes and improvements over VLC 1.1.2, for most platforms.
Source code and binaries for Windows and Mac (Intel) are available.
See the release notes for more information.
NB: first Windows installer were corrupted, please use the updated ones.

New project: libaacs

2010-08-10

A new project is now hosted by VideoLAN: libaacs.
Mostly made by developers from Doom9, this research project implement the public AACS specification.
NB: libaacs is a research project and does not distribute any key.

Rémi Duraffort: Google Summer of Code: Mentor Summit

Google Mentor Summit A quick note to announce that we will be at the Google Mentor Summit in California this week-end. This meeting is organized by Google to close the Google Summer of Code and to meet developers from different Free Softwar[...]

Rémi Duraffort: Compiling VLC for linux people

Compiling VLC media player on Linux is now something really easy. This article is a small tutorial for every people wondering about it. VLC versions First, you have to choose which version of VLC you would like to compile as at least two[...]

Rémi Duraffort: VLC media player extension for LibriVox

Thanks to VLC extensions, we recently created a script that fetch books from LibriVox. This website is a directory and a project that provide free audio books from the Public Domain like Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) or War and Peace (Leo Tol[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: HTC Touch Diamond, ROM upgrade and Windows 7

HTC Touch Diamond Thanks to a friend (CĂ©line, you are amazing), I have now a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone: the HTC Touch Diamond. I know it is a bit old-fashioned with WM7 getting out soon, but I am not a .Net/Silverlight guy... Hands o[...]

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2010-10-22 07:33 Some devs from VideoLAN will be in SF/Bay Area in the next few days. Contact us if you are interested to meet.

2010-10-18 10:05 @Wanyal @Alexdude333 We are working on it :D

2010-10-18 07:58 @marius26 time and/or money, as usual :D

2010-10-17 05:38 @marius26 VLC for Symbian really depends on the time (or lack thereof) of developers or community members...