VLC Media Player is the most popular and robust multi format, free media player available. Its popularity has been aided by compatibility and codec issues which render competitor media players like QuickTime, itunes and RealPlayer useless to many popular video and music file formats. The easy, basic UI and huge array of customization options mean few free media players can match VLC. Flexibility VLC plays almost any video or music file format you can find. At its launch this was a revolution compared to the default media players most people were using that often crashed or displayed “codecs missing” error messages when trying to play media files. VLC can play MPEG, AVI, RMBV, FLV, QuickTime, WMV, MP4 and a shed load of other media file formats.

For a full list of compatible file formats please click here. Not only can VLC Media Player handle loads of different formats, VLC can also playback partial or incomplete media files so you can preview downloads before they finish.

Easy to Use VLC’s UI is definitely a case of function over format. The basic look does however make the player extremely easy to use. Simply drag and drop files to play or open them using files and folders then use the classic media navigation buttons to play, pause, stop, skip, edit playback speed, change the volume, brightness, etc. A huge variety of skins and customization options mean the standard appearance shouldn’t be enough to prevent you choosing VLC as your default media player.

Advanced Options Don’t let VLC Media Player’s simple interface fool you, within the playback, audio, video, tools and view tabs are a huge variety of player options. You can play with synchronization settings including a graphic equalizer with multiple pre-sets, overlays, special effects, AtmoLight video effects, audio spatializer and customizable range compression settings. You can even add subtitles to videos by adding the SRT file to the video’s folder. Summary VLC Media Player is quite simply the most versatile, stable and high quality free media player available. It has rightly dominated the free media player market for over 10 years now and looks like it may for another 10 thanks to the constant development and improvement by VideoLAN Org. Core: Update subtitles display while paused. Access: Enable srt support on binary builds.

Decoders: Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled. Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264. Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams. Fix subsdec wide character support. Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC. Demux: Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds. Fix forced tracks selection.

Fix Topfield files. Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS. Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams. MacOS: Fix 'Open Network Stream' URL box focus. Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding.

Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences. Video Output: Fix crashes on Direct3D11. Qt: Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments. Fix spurious movement of the main Window. Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen. Misc: Fix amem output. Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping.

Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys. Fix audioscrobbling. Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts.

Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues. Translations: Update of most languages.

VLC running under (playing ) Initial release February 1, 2001; 17 years ago ( 2001-02-01) Windows, Linux, & macOS 3.0.4 / 31 August 2018; 2 months ago ( 2018-08-31) Android 3.0.9 / 30 July 2018; 3 months ago ( 2018-07-30) Chrome OS 1.7.3 / 23 December 2015; 2 years ago ( 2015-12-23) iOS 3.1.1 / 30 July 2018; 3 months ago ( 2018-07-30) Apple TV 3.1.1 / 30 July 2018; 3 months ago ( 2018-07-30) Windows 3.1.0 / 20 July 2018; 4 months ago ( 2018-07-20) Windows Phone 3.1.0 / 20 July 2018; 4 months ago ( 2018-07-20). Written in Core: GUI: (with ), (with ), Bundled Extensions:, Available in 48 languages v2.1+ Website VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a, and developed by the project. VLC is available for desktop and, such as,.

VLC is also available on such as Apple's,. VLC supports many audio and video methods and, including, and streaming. It is able to stream media over and to multimedia files.

The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The library from the project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly uses its own and demuxers.

It also has its own protocol implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on and by using the DVD decryption library. Keyboard map (basic) The default is based on on, for macOS, and for Linux and Windows, but all give a similar standard interface. The old default was based on on Linux and Windows.

VLC supports highly customizable through the skins2 interface, and also supports 2 and skins. Skins are not supported in the macOS version. VLC has, remote control, and interfaces.

There is also an interface, as well as interfaces for mouse gestures and keyboard. Features Because VLC is a media player it plays almost all video content. It can play some, even if they're damaged, incomplete, or unfinished, such as files that are still downloading via a (P2P) network. It also plays m2t (.TS) files while they are still being digitized from an camera via a cable, making it possible to monitor the video as it is being played.

The player can also use libcdio to access files so that users can play files on a, even if the user's operating system cannot work directly with.iso images. VLC supports all audio and video formats supported by and libavformat. This means that VLC can play back or video as well as support or file formats 'out of the box' using FFmpeg's libraries. Alternatively, VLC has modules for codecs that are not based on FFmpeg's libraries. VLC is one of the DVD players that ignores on firmware drives, making it a. However, it does not do the same on firmware drives, as in these cases the region coding is enforced by the drive itself, however, it can still the encryption to play a foreign-region DVD on an RPC-2 drive. VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, and mirror videos as well as create display walls or add a logo overlay.

It can also output video as. VLC media player can play recordings of tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag.

Using a connection from cable boxes to computers, VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV. VLC media player can display the playing video as the, like, by using, only available on Windows operating systems. VLC media player can record the desktop and save the stream as a file, allowing the user to create. On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can thus make use of some third-party (Dynamic-link library). On most platforms, VLC can tune into and view DVB-C, DVB-T, and DVB-S channels. On macOS the separate EyeTV plugin is required, on Windows it requires the card's BDA Drivers.

VLC can be installed or run directly from a or other external drive. VLC can be extended through scripting; it uses the scripting language. VLC can play videos in the format, a highly compressed format used in recent camcorders.

VLC can generate a number of displays. The program is able to convert media files into various supported formats. Operating system compatibility VLC media player is, with versions for,.

However, forward and backward compatibility between versions of VLC media player and different versions of OSs are not maintained over more than a couple or so generations. Builds are available for 64-bit Windows.

Windows 8 and 10 support The VLC port for and is backed by a campaign on to add support for a new GUI based on Microsoft's, that will run on the. All the existing features including video filters, subtitle support and an equalizer are present in Windows 8. A beta version of VLC for Windows 8 was released to the Microsoft Store on March 13, 2014. A was created for Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile.

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Android support. ^ Until VLC 1.1.0, to use AMR as audio codec, VLC and FFmpeg had to be compiled with AMR support. This is because the AMR license is not compatible with the VLC license. This feature needs and might not work on every OS.

Support under Windows was dropped after version 2.0.8 due to security issues. RealAudio playback is provided through the FFmpeg library which only supports the Cook (RealAudio G2 / RealAudio 8) decoder at the moment.

As of 2010, only supported in mono and stereo, so no multichannel support. ^ This is present in 0.9.0 and newer version. Indeo 4 and 5 codecs are not supported. from 0.9.9 and over.

^ This is from the 0.8.6 version. VLC must be compiled with mp3lame support References.