VLC media player

VLC media player (also known as VLC) is a highly portable free and open-source media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project.

VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-video, video CD and streaming protocols.

VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but since VLC is no longer simply a client, that initialism no longer applies.

VLC was the client for the VideoLAN project, with VLC standing for VideoLan Client.

After 13 years of development, version 1.0.0 of VLC media player was released on July 7, 2009.


The version 2.0.0. of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012 VLC is third in the sourceforge.net

In VLC, interfaces are modules, which means that VLC's core can launch one, many, or no interfaces.

Because VLC is a packet-based media player, it can play the video content of some damaged, incomplete, or unfinished videos.

VLC supports all audio and video formats and all file formats supported by libavcodec and libavformat.

This means that VLC can play back H.264 or MPEG-4 video as well as support FLV or MXF file formats "out of the box" using FFmpeg's libraries.


VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay.

VLC media player can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using .

VLC media player can display the playing video as the desktop wallpaper, like Windows DreamScene, by using DirectX, only available on Windows operating systems.

Several APIs can connect to VLC and use its functionality: On Windows, Linux, Mac, and some other Unix-like platforms, VLC provides an NPAPI plugin, which enables users to view QuickTime, Windows Media, MP3, and Ogg files embedded in websites without using additional products.


Starting with version 0.8.2, VLC also provides an ActiveX plugin, which lets people view QuickTime (MOV), Windows Media, MP3, and Ogg files embedded in websites when using Internet Explorer.

VLC can read several formats, depending on the operating system VLC is running on.

As of December, 2011, the VLC team states that a version of VLC for Android "is in development".

The VLC media player software installers for the Mac OS X platform and the Windows platform include the libdvdcss DVD decryption library, even though this library may be legally restricted in certain jurisdictions.