VLC: open-source multimedia framework, player and server

VLC media player

VLC is a powerful media player, playing most of the media codecs and video formats out there.

Open Source

Trust your multimedia software and codecs, all VideoLAN projects are free and open source. More about Open Source.

Volunteers Organization

VLC and VideoLAN are projects, composed of volunteers, developing and promoting free multimedia solutions. More about VideoLAN.

selection of supported formats
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"It plays everything!"

The media player that fulfills all your needs. It handles DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more.

With VLC, there is no need to continually update many different codec packs. VLC comes with nearly every codec built in!

And whats more, VLC can play back your files, even if the media is damaged! Missing or broken pieces wont stop VLC. All the video and audio information that remains can be played.

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Other Systems, Versions

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Operating Systems with Binaries

Select your operating system to download VLC binaries:

GNU/Linux

Source and other operating systems

For the other operating systems supported, there are no precompiled binaries. You will have to get the source code for VLC and its required libraries and build them yourself:

Source

You can also directly get the source code.

You couldn't find your OS / Distribution in this list but know where to find VLC media player builds elsewhere? Please Contact us so we can add a link.