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.
VLC Media Player can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
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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
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Access:
· Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
Audio Output:
· Fix lookup for device names in auhal plugin
Demuxers:
· Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
· Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
· Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
· Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
· Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
· Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
Decoders:
· Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
· Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
· Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
· 3rd party codecs updates
Mac OS X:
· Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
· Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
· Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console) in the advanced preferences panel
· Fix spatializer audio filter panel
· Fix crash within the video output code
· Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
· Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
· Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
· Fix various interface rendering issues
Qt:
· Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
GNU/Linux:
· Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
· Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
Windows:
· Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
Translations:
· Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian, Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German Slovenian Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, translations
· New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
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