VideoLAN: Free Multimedia Solutions

Volunteers Organization

VideoLAN is a project and a non-profit organization, composed of volunteers, developing and promoting free multimedia solutions. More about VideoLAN.

Open Source

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

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A community makes VideoLAN. You too can help!

All funds come from your donations. So please donate!

VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedias files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

It is simple to use, yet very powerful and extendable.


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  • Simple, Powerful and Fast
  • Plays everything, Files, Discs and Streams
  • No codec packs needed
  • Completely Free
  • 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking
  • Media Converter and Streamer
  • Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix...

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VLC

The media player

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x264

Perfect Encoding

libdvdcss

DVD decryption library

DVBlast!

Simple but powerful DVB streamer

VLMa

VideoLAN manager for VLC streamers

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Google Code-In starts!

2010-11-22

VideoLAN is one of the organization selected by Google for the Google Code-In program.
If you are a student, between 13 and 18 years old, you can apply to help the VideoLAN project. Tasks include code and not-code short amount of work that will help greatly the VideoLAN project.
Join Now!

VLC 1.1.5

2010-11-13

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.5, the fifth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
Small new features, notably GME and live .webm support and an integrated listing of web-shows directly in the playlist are making this release. Many bugfixes, updated translations and security issue are also part of this release.
Source and Windows and MacOSX builds are available.
See the release notes for more information.

VLC 1.1.4.1

2010-09-27

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present VLC 1.1.4.1, a fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. This release does only target PowerPC-based Macs. It is the first release of this branch for this platform and includes all the features, improvements and bug-fixes you have been waiting for.
This is a security update, so we recommend all users to update to this new version (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004).

VLC 1.1.4

2010-08-27

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.4, the fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch.
An important class of security issues was discovered on Windows, and VLC and many other important applications on Windows are affected; see our security advisory.
Source and Windows builds are available.
See the release notes for more information.

Rémi Denis-Courmont: VLC revamps Game Music Emulation support

Nintendo claims Mario hit his 25th birthday (which seems incorrect, the first release was in 1983, not 1985). In any case, VLC is finally capable of rendering "chiptune" music from most popular old game console formats, [...]

Rémi Denis-Courmont: I hate Xlib and so should you

For over 20 years, Xlib has been at the heart of graphics on Linux. Unfortunately, it suffers from some rather troublesome limitations and designs mistakes.[...]

Rémi Duraffort: Google Summer of Code: Mentor Summit (part2)

We went to the Google Mentor Summit in California for the week-end, let's talk a bit about it ... The Google Mentor Summit Every year, Google organizes the Google Summer of Code. This event is an opportunity for students to work on Open [...]

Rémi Duraffort: VideoLAN accepted for Google Code In

Google just released the list of organizations that will participate to the Google Code In contest and VideoLAN is part of it! Google Code In I guess most people knows about the Google Summer of Code contest that Google runs every summer[...]

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2010-11-21 11:44 Google Code In starts this monday! Join and do tasks for the VideoLAN project... http://www.google-melange.com/

2010-11-21 02:53 100M of VLC 1.1.x (The Luggage) shipped in exactly 5 months...

2010-11-20 12:01 @SuryakantBehera very funny... You know that VideoLAN is only volunteers work, right?

2010-11-19 12:06 We're going to cross this we the 100M downloads bar for VLC since we move to SF.net downloads service on June 21 (1.1.0 to 1.1.5)