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VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.
Version 2.2.2 • Windows • 28 MB

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News & Updates

2016-02-18

2016 is a special year for many FLOSS projects: VideoLAN as open-source project and Free Software Foundation Europe both have their 15th birthday while KDE has its 20th birthday. All these call for celebrations! This year VideoLAN has come together with Qt, FSFE, KDE and KDAB to bring you QtCon, where attendees can meet, collaborate and get the latest news of all these projects.
VideoLAN Dev Days 2016 will be organised as part of QtCon in Berlin. The event will start on Friday the 2nd of September with 3 shared days of talks, workshops, meetups and coding sessions.
The current plan is to have a Call for Papers in March with the Program announced in early June.

2016-02-06

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.2 of VLC media player today
This second stable release of the "WeatherWax" version of VLC fixes more than 100 important bugs and security issues reported on VLC 2.2.1. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes 3rd party libraries security issues. Finally, this update solves installation issues on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
Read more about it on our release page.

2016-02-01

VideoLAN is happy to celebrate with you the 15th anniversary of the birth of VideoLAN and VLC as open source projects!

2016-01-12

VideoLAN and the VLC team is excited to announce the first release of VLC for Apple TV. It allows you to get access to all your files and video streams in their native formats without conversions, directly on the new Apple device and your TV. You can find details in our press release.

2015-12-24

VideoLAN is proud to announce the release of version 1.4.0 of libdvdcss.
This release adds support for network callbacks, to play ISOs over the network, Android support, and cleans the codebase.

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf: 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN

15 years! Today marks the 15th anniversary of VLC! GPL Technically, today is the 15th anniversary of the relicensing of all the VideoLAN software to the GPL license, as agreed by the École Centrale Paris, on February 1st, 2001. [...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: These weeks in VideoLAN - 34

34th VideoLAN report I was traveling quite a bit lately, so here is a double-week report about the VLC and VideoLAN communities. FOSDEM Once again, the VideoLAN team was present at FOSDEM. Here is a the usual Delirium Cafe photo! [...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: This week in VideoLAN - 33

33rd VideoLAN report This is my second report in 2016 about what happened last week in the VLC and VideoLAN communities. VLC on AppleTV Of course, the big news of the week was the release of VLC for the AppleTV. Apple TV is the late[...]

Felix Paul Kühne: Announcing VLC for Apple TV

Today, we are proud to announce VLC on the Apple TV. It’s a full port of VLC media player combined with platform specific features. VLC for Apple TV integrates with a plethora of devices and services on your local network and includes [...]

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[ThomasNigro] Is there a Spotify API ? I want to play my Spotify collection in VLC for Windows Store.

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