VLC

VLC media player is a 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 supports an extensive range of formats without the need for additional codecs.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

VLC 2.0.5

Price Free to download Size 17.5MB License GNU GPL v2 Developer VideoLAN team Website www.videolan.org/vlc System Requirements tbc Support Sites: VLC Play Howto, VideoLan Streaming Howto, VLC user guide, VideoLAN FAQ, The VideoLAN Forums, Videolan Wiki, Mailing Lists Selected Reviews: LinuxUser, TechRadar

Features include:

• Support for input media: UDP/RTP Unicast and Multicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, File, DVD, VCD, SVCD, DVB, MPEG encoder, Video acquisition (V4L)
• Input formats: MPEG, ID3 tags, AVI, ASF / WMV / WMA, MP4 / MOV / 3GP, OGG / OGM / Annodex, Matroska, WAV (including DTS), Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52, Raw DV, FLAC, FLV (Flash)
• Support for Blu-ray discs
• Fast decoding on multi-core, GPU and mobile hardware
• Opens professiona, HD, and 10bits codecs
  
  Video
  
  
• Decoders: MPEG-1/2, DIVX, MPEG-4, XviD, 3ivX, H.264, Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime), DV, Cinepak, Theora, H.263 / H.263i, MJPEG, WMV 1/2, WMV 3 WMV-9 / VC-1, Indeo Video v 3-5, Rado Video
• Subtitles: DVD, SVCD / CVD, DVB, OGM, Matroska, Text files, Vobsub
• Filters: Deinterlace, cropping, image wall, image adjust, rotate/mirror, logo overlay, magnification, image distortion, bluescreen, RSS/Aton feeds
• Outputs: Native, X11, XVideo, SDL, Framebuffer, ASCII Art
  
  Audio
  
  
• Decoders: MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3, AC3 - A/52, DTS, LPCM, AAC, Vorbis, WMA 1/2, WMA 3, ADPCM, DV Audio, FLAC, QDM2/QDMC (Quicktime), MACE, Real Audio, Speex
• Filters: Visualization effects, equalizer
• Outputs: Native (OSS, ALSA), S/PDIF (OSS, ALSA), Multi-channel (OSS, ALSA), SDL, ESD, aRts, JACK
  
  Streaming
  
  
• UDP Unicast / Multicast, RTP Unicast / Multicast, File, HTTP, MMSH
• Transcoding
• Send DVD subtitles
• Send SAP announces
  
  Interfaces and control
  
  
• Qt4, Skins, Web, Telnet, Command line, Infrared
  

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Last Updated Wednesday, March 27 2013 @ 03:41 PM EST