VideoLAN - VLC media player
About VideoLAN
VideoLAN is a software project, which produces
free
software for video, released under the GNU General Public
License.
Learn more about the VideoLAN project.
Our main product is the cross-platform VLC media player.
About VLC media player
VLC media player 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.
It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.
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VLC media player 0.8.6f release
2008-04-02
We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec.
This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Google Summer of Code 2008
2008-03-20
As some of you might have noticed, VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organisation for Google's 2008 edition of Summer of Code. Official student applications will be begin on the 24th and will last until the 31th. Students can apply for VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions.
Update: The application deadline has been extended to the 7th of April by the Google folks.
VLC media player 0.8.6e, VideoLAN Security 0801 and 0802
2008-02-27
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer.
Technical details are available in our advisories: SA-0801 and SA-0802.
The usual collection of assorted changes and improvements can be found here.
This release fully supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 once again.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
VLC media player 0.8.6d, VideoLAN Security Advisory 0703
2007-11-30
VLC media player versions 0.8.6 to 0.8.6c suffer from a security vulnerability in the ActiveX plugin. More technical details are available in our advisory.
An updated release of VLC is available which includes a few other fixes as well, notably better compatibility with MacOSX 10.5 Leopard. The full list of changes can be found here.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Note that early and broken Win32 binaries have been distributed by third party websites. Make sure to download from an official VideoLAN mirror to avoid disappointment.
VLC to remain under GPL version 2
2007-09-29
Future versions of VLC media player as published by VideoLAN.org will be licensed under GPL version 2 inspite of the newly released GPL version 3. See the press release here.
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VLC media player 0.8.6f
- It is a free cross-platform media player
- It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
- It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
Help
For setup instructions, see the documentation section.
If you have a problem that is not covered in the documentation, look at the support page, web forums, the Wiki, the user mailing-lists and other support methods.
Contribute!
VideoLAN welcomes all contributions to the project! You can contribute
time (development, documentation, packaging, tests, user support, ...),
material or even money. See the contribution
page for more information.
Developers can join us by undertaking one of the Mini Projects