VLC Media Player
Developer: VideoLAN
- Reviews
- 5 / 72
- Downloads
- 58,461
Downloads
- VLC Media Player64-bit Windows Installer32-bit Windows InstallerVisit download page
- VLC Media PlayermacOS Intel 64-bitmacOS Apple SiliconVisit download page
Downloads are available on VLC Media Player’s official website.
VLC Media Player at a glance
- What it is
- A cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files, DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs and streaming protocols
- Price
- Free
- Open source
- Yes
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Made by
- VideoLAN
- Runs on
- Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android
- Official website
- videolan.org
- Source code
- code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
- Check your download
- SHA-256 checksum and .asc signature files next to each download
Change Log
VLC 3.0.23 is the current 3.0.x release listed by VideoLAN.
The page now reflects the current Windows and macOS package names for the 3.0.x branch.
Review VideoLAN's official release page for the complete branch-level change history.
Description
VLC Media Player (also known as VLC) is a free, open source multimedia player developed by VideoLAN Organization. It is one of the oldest free, portable, cross-platform multimedia players.
You can use it to play all popular multimedia files and also DVDs, CDs, VCDs and other streaming protocols. Unlike other players, it does not require a codec pack to be installed, it can play multimedia files without them. This media player is released under GNU licenses and is available in more than 40 languages. There are many releases available for Android, iOS, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and even QNX, Haiku, Syllable and OS/2.
VLC Media Player Features
- supports media conversion and streaming
- cross-platform: runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix and other popular operating systems
- support for input media: UDP/RTP/TCP/RTP/DCCP/RTP Unicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, DVD Video, Video CD / VCD, SVCD, Audio CD (no DTS-CD), DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV) etc.
- support for input formats: MPEG, MP3, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, MP4, MOV, 3GP, MKV, Real, WAV, Raw Audio, FLAC, FLV, MXF etc.
- support for video formats: MPEG, DIVX, Cinepak, Theora, H.261, MJPEG, WMV, Real Video, DV etc.
- support for audio formats: WMA, FLAC, Vorbis, MPEG, AAC, AC3, MLP, ALAC, Speex, Musepack, Wavpack, Real Audio, MIDI, TrueAudio, LPCM, ADPCM, QCELP, etc.
- support for subtitle formats: DVD, Vobsub, USF, SVCD, DVB, OGM, CMML etc.
- support for video and audio outputs: Native, X11, XVideo, SDL, FrameBuffer, ASCII Art, S/PDIF, Multi-channel, PulseAudio, PortAudio etc.
- support for video and audio filters: Deinterlace, cropping, magnification, rotate, image distortion, visualization effects, equalizer etc.
