VideoLAN Client (VLC) is a media player for Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC.

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.

VideoLan Client can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Here are some key features of "VLC":

Inputs:

￭ UDP Unicast / Multicast
￭ RTP Unicast / Multicast
￭ HTTP
￭ FTP
￭ MMS
￭ File
￭ DVD
￭ VCD
￭ Audio CD
￭ DVB-S/C/T
￭ MPEG encoding card
￭ Video acquisition

Input formats:

￭ MPEG ES/PS/TS/PVA/mp3
￭ AVI
￭ ASF/wmv/wma
￭ Ogg/OGM/Annodex
￭ MP4/MOV/3gpp
￭ Matroska
￭ Wav
￭ DTS Wav
￭ Raw DV
￭ Raw AAC
￭ Raw ac3/a52 audio
￭ Raw DTS audio
￭ FLAC audio

Video Codecs

￭ MPEG-1
￭ MPEG-2
￭ DivX 1/2/3
￭ MPEG-4/DivX 5/XviD/3ivX D4
￭ Sorenson (SVQ 1/3)
￭ DV
￭ Cinepak
￭ Theora (alpha 3)
￭ H263/H263i
￭ MJPEG A/B
￭ WMV 1/2

Subtitles

￭ SVCD
￭ CVD
￭ DVB
￭ OGM
￭ Matroska
￭ MicroDVD
￭ Vobsub
￭ SubRIP
￭ SubViewer (v1 & v2)
￭ SSA1-4
￭ SAMI
￭ Vplayer

Video Filters

￭ Deinterlace
￭ Crop
￭ Image Wall
￭ Brightness-Saturation-Contrast
￭ Rotate
￭ Upside down
￭ Logo overlay

Video Output

￭ Native
￭ GDI
￭ X11
￭ Xvideo
￭ SDL
￭ Framebuffer
￭ ASCII art
￭ colored ASCII art
￭ MGA
￭ GGI

Audio Codecs

￭ MPEG Layer 1 and 2
￭ MP3
￭ AC3 (i.e. A52)
￭ DTS
￭ LPCM
￭ AAC
￭ Vorbis
￭ WMA 1/2
￭ ADPCM
￭ DV Audio
￭ FLAC
￭ MACE
￭ Speex

Audio Output

￭ Native
￭ S/PDIF
￭ multi-channel
￭ SDL
￭ ESD
￭ aRts
￭ File

Interfaces

￭ GTK (unmaintained)
￭ Gnome (unmaintained)
￭ QT (unmaintained)
￭ KDE (unmaintained)
￭ WxWidgets
￭ Skins
￭ HTTP/Webpage

Service Information

￭ SAP / SDP
￭ SLP

Misc

￭ Command line
￭ RTSP client
￭ Remote Control
￭ Infrared
￭ Mozilla plugin
￭ DVD Menus
￭ Audio Visualization Effects
￭ Localization
￭ ID3 tags
￭ CDDB CD info
￭ IPv6
￭ IGMPv3
￭ CPU acceleration