VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server
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. It can also be used as a server to stream in
unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth
network.
If you like VLC, please rate it on the Freshmeat and versiontracker entries!
Features
For more information about what features are supported on your operating
system, please see the full features list.
You can also have a look at some VLC
screenshots.
Download VLC
Note:The VLC media player 0.8.4-test1 beta release is available here.
Select your operating system to download precompiled binaries:
 Windows
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 Mac OS X
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 BeOS
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 Debian GNU/Linux
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 Mandrake Linux
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 Fedora Core
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 Familiar Linux
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 YOPY/Linupy
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 Zaurus
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 SuSE Linux
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 Red Hat Linux
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WinCE / PocketPC
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For the other operating systems supported, there are no precompiled
binaries. You will have to get the source code for VLC and its required
libraries and build them yourself:
 NetBSD
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 OpenBSD
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 FreeBSD
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 Solaris
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 QNX
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 Gentoo Linux
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 Crux Linux
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You can also directly get the source code:
 Source code
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Documentation
See the documentation page.
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