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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
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VLC icon VLC media player VLC is a powerful media player playing most of the media codecs and video formats out there.
VLMC icon VLMC VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation.
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DVBlast Icon DVBlast DVBlast is a simple and powerful MPEG-2/TS demux and streaming application.
x264 Icon x264 x264 is a free application for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format.
 
multicat multicat is a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams and TS.
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libdvdpsi
libVLC
libaacs
libdvbcsa
libdca
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News & Updates

VideoLAN at SCALE 10x
2012-01-15

VideoLAN will have a booth (#74) at the Southern California Linux Expo at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel next week-end. The event will take place from Friday throughout Sunday. We will happily show you the latest developments and our forthcoming major VLC update.

multicat 2.0
2012-01-04

VideoLAN is happy to announce the second major release of multicat. It brings numerous new features, such as recording chunks of a stream in a directory, and supporting TCP socket and IPv6, as well as bug fixes. Also aggregaRTP was extended to support retransmission of lost packets.

DVBlast 2.1
2012-01-04

VideoLAN is happy to announce version 2.1 of DVBlast. It is a bugfix release, fixing in particular a problem with MMI menus present in 2.0.

VLC engine relicensed to LGPL
2011-12-21

As previously stated, VideoLAN worked on the relicensing of libVLC and libVLCcore: the VLC engine.
We are glad to announce that this process is now complete for VLC 1.2. Thanks a lot for the support.

Development Blogs

Felix Paul Kühne: VideoLAN at SCALE 10x

VideoLAN will have a booth at SCALE 10x, the Southern California Linux Expo, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel this week. The event takes place next week-end from January 20-22. The booth (#74) will be manned by Rémi Denis-Courmont [...]

Jean-Paul Saman: Gitolite and SELinux

Letting gitolite, git-daemon, gitweb and SELinux play well together needs some careful thought. Although most of the hard work is already done you still need to tweak the permissions a little. Especially when the git repository is not store[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VLC 1.2: nouveautés

Un an et demi après la dernière version majeure (1.1.0), VLC revient avec une nouvelle version: 1.2.0, disponible en pré-version de test. L'occasion de revenir sur les nouveautés de cette version. Avec près de 8000 changements fait p[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VLC 1.2.0 features: part 2, formats

VLC 1.2.0 I've spoken already about VLC 1.2.0, especially about video, video again and authoring. However, I haven't spoken about the format supported in VLC 1.2, even if there were some hints in my last post. Discs and devices Blu-Ra[...]

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2012-01-15 08:28 @apas take latest nightly build...

2012-01-14 11:28 @Mitsukarenai no idea...

2012-01-14 11:12 @Mitsukarenai y a des avancées, mais la route est longue... Par contre, x262, bientôt :D

2012-01-14 10:58 @benpro82 @Mitsukarenai Pour l'anime, l'intéressant c'est surtout le 10bits en 4:2:0 (et en 4:4:4) plus que le 4:2:2 en 8bits.