VLC media player

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a media player from the VideoLAN project. It supports many audio and video Codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, Video CDs and various streaming media 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 employs the libavcodec codec library from the FFmpeg project to handle many of the formats it supports, and uses the Libdvdcss DVD decryption library to handle playback of encrypted DVDs.

It is one of the most platform independent players available, with versions for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Berkeley Software Distribution, Pocket PC, Solaris Operating Environment.

On Windows, Linux, and some other platforms, VLC provides a Mozilla plugin, which lets people view some Quicktime and Windows Media files embedded in websites without using Microsoft or Apple products.

Starting with version 0.8.2, VLC also provides an Component Object Model plugin, which lets people view some QuickTime and Windows Media files embedded in websites, when browsing with Internet Explorer.

=See also=

*List of media players *Comparison of media players

=External links=

*[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC media player] (Official Website) *[http://forum.videolan.org VideoLAN forum] *[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html List of supported features] *[http://www.nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/ The origins of the strange cone logo] *[irc://irc.freenode.net/videolan #videolan] (IRC channel)