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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.

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News & Updates

2022-03-21

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding a new video playback interface, support for NFS and SFTP network shares and major improvements to the media handling especially for audio. See the press release.

2022-03-06

libbluray and related libraries, libaacs and libbdplus, have new releases, focused on maintenance, minor improvements, and notably new OSes and new java versions compatibility. See libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus pages.

2021-12-15

Since its very early days in 1996, VideoLAN software is written in programming languages of the C family (mostly plain C with additions in C++ and Objective-C) with the notable exception of its port to Android, which was started in Java and recently transitioned to Kotlin. VLC does not use the log4j library on any platform and is therefore unaffected by any related security implications.

2021-09-20

We are pleased to release version 3.4.0 of the VLC version for the Android platforms.
Still based on libVLC 3, it revamps the Audio Player and the Auto support, it adds bookmarks in each media, simplifies the permissions and improves video grouping. See our Android page.

2021-06-21

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.16 release of VLC, which fixes delays when seeking on Windows, opening DVD folders with non-ASCII character names, fixes HTTPS support on Windows XP, addresses audio drop-outs on seek with specific MP4 content and improves subtitles renderering. It also adds support for the TouchBar on macOS. More details on the release page.

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Development Blogs

Felix Paul Kühne: VLC media player for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS version 3.3

After a long time, I have exciting things to share! VLC media player for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV is receiving a major update on the App Store today. As always, it is completely free of charge in all countries and the source[...]

Rémi Denis-Courmont: Running VLC on RISC-V

VLC builds on RISC-V already. Next step would be testing in an emulator or simulator...[...]

Rémi Denis-Courmont: Building VLC for RISC-V

Support for a whole new instruction set architecture (ISA) is a somewhat rare occurence in VLC development...[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: FFmpeg 5.0

FFmpeg 5.0 release Today, FFmpeg made a new release, numbered 5.0, called Lorentz. This release is a major release, with numerous API changes, a few new features, and because we hope to have this one as LTS. Big API changes and deprec[...]

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