VideoLAN - VLC media player
About VideoLAN
VideoLAN is a software project, which produces
free and open source
software for video, released under the GNU General Public
License.
Learn more about the VideoLAN project.
Our main software is the cross-platform VLC media player.
We are also hosting x264 and other projects.
About VLC media player
VLC media player is a highly 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 can also be used as a
server to stream in unicast or
multicast in IPv4 or
IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.
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End of VideoLAN Dev Days '08
2008-12-24
The VideoLAN Dev Days '08, our first real life meeting were a great success. Many development and organisation ideas were discussed there. We want to thank everyone that came to see us and the four companies that sponsored us: Anevia, Free, M2X and Uniways.
Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to everyone.
VideoLAN Dev Days '08
2008-12-10
The VideoLAN community is a fast-evolving and ever-changing community and development happens really fast. While this is fun, it is always difficult to meet and discuss with each other in person.
Therefore, we are happy to invite you to: The VideoLAN Dev Days '08 , in Paris, France, on the 20-21 December week-end.
If you are a developper, a VLC fan or press, and you are interested to come or discuss with the team, please contact us.
We would like to thank the four companies that sponsor us: Anevia, Free, M2X and Uniways.
Update: You can have a look at the meeting here.
VLC 0.9.8a binaries for Windows and Mac OS
2008-12-08
VLC media player 0.9.8a binaries for Windows and MacOS are now available.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
VideoLAN Security Advisory 0811
2008-12-03
VLC media player versions 0.9.8 and older suffer from a critical buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Refer to our advisory for technical details. Fixes for this issue is available in VLC 0.9.8a. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
Windows and Mac OS builds are coming at a later date.
VLC media player SourceForge Award
2008-11-24
VLC media player won a Community Choice Award, organised by our friends from SourceForge, this summer. We just received the award.
The whole VideoLAN Team would love to thank many times SourceForge and especially Ross Turk.
You can find more infos here and there.
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VLC media player 0.9.8a
- Free and Open Source cross-platform media player
- Supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
- Features a complete streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
Help
For setup instructions, see the documentation section.
If you have a problem that is not covered in the documentation, look at the support page, web forums, the Wiki, the user mailing-lists and other support methods.
Contribute!
VideoLAN welcomes all contributions to the project! You can contribute
time (development, documentation, packaging, tests, user support, ...),
material or even money. See the contribution
page for more information.
Developers can join us by undertaking one of the Mini Projects