VLC Media Player History VLC Media Player. By VideoLAN.org (Open Source) Advertisement. VLC Media Player 3.0.6 Released: 14 Jan 2019 (7 weeks ago) VLC Media Player 3.0.5 Released: 02 Jan 2019 (2 months ago) VLC Media Player 3.0.4 Released: 03 Sep 2018 (6 months ago) VLC Media Player 3.
VLC Streamer - Alternate versions VLC Streamer uses VLC to handle the actual conversion of movies to the format for the iPhone/iPad. Windows XP If you're using Windows XP, you should definitly upgrade! However, if you won't or can't, then the last version which officially works on windows XP is Mac OS - Older computers If you are using an old version of Mac OS (Mac OS 10.5, or Mac OS 10.6 on a 32bit CPU), then please use If you're using Mac OS 10.6 on a 64bit CPU, then the latest version you can use is Linux The linux version is unsupported. It was provided by a generous community member.
Historical releases - 'A' Version The A version is based on the current VLC. It is best for most filetypes. Windows. Mac OS.
. Written in Core: GUI: (with ), (with ), Bundled Extensions:, Available in 48 languages Website VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a, and developed by the project. VLC is available for desktop and, such as,.
VLC is also available on such as Apple's,. VLC supports many audio and video methods and, including, and streaming. It is able to stream media over and to multimedia files. The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The library from the project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly uses its own and demuxers.
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It also has its own protocol implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on and by using the DVD decryption library. Keyboard map (basic) The default is based on on, for macOS, and for Linux and Windows, but all give a similar standard interface. The old default was based on on Linux and Windows. VLC supports highly customizable through the skins2 interface, and also supports 2 and skins. Skins are not supported in the macOS version.
VLC has, remote control, and interfaces. There is also an interface, as well as interfaces for mouse gestures and keyboard. Features Because VLC is a media player it plays almost all video content. It can play some, even if they're damaged, incomplete, or unfinished, such as files that are still downloading via a (P2P) network. It also plays m2t (.TS) files while they are still being digitized from an camera via a cable, making it possible to monitor the video as it is being played.
The player can also use libcdio to access files so that users can play files on a, even if the user's operating system cannot work directly with.iso images. VLC supports all audio and video formats supported by and libavformat. This means that VLC can play back or video as well as support or file formats 'out of the box' using FFmpeg's libraries. Alternatively, VLC has modules for codecs that are not based on FFmpeg's libraries. VLC is one of the DVD players that ignores on firmware drives, making it a. However, it does not do the same on firmware drives, as in these cases the region coding is enforced by the drive itself, however, it can still the encryption to play a foreign-region DVD on an RPC-2 drive. VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, and mirror videos as well as create display walls or add a logo overlay.
It can also output video as. VLC media player can play recordings of tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag. Using a connection from cable boxes to computers, VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.
VLC media player can display the playing video as the, like, by using, only available on Windows operating systems. VLC media player can record the desktop and save the stream as a file, allowing the user to create. On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can thus make use of some third-party (Dynamic-link library). On most platforms, VLC can tune into and view DVB-C, DVB-T, and DVB-S channels. On macOS the separate EyeTV plugin is required, on Windows it requires the card's BDA Drivers. VLC can be installed or run directly from a or other external drive.
VLC can be extended through scripting; it uses the scripting language. VLC can play videos in the format, a highly compressed format used in recent camcorders. VLC can generate a number of displays. The program is able to convert media files into various supported formats.
Operating system compatibility VLC media player is, with versions for,. However, forward and backward compatibility between versions of VLC media player and different versions of OSs are not maintained over more than a couple or so generations. Builds are available for 64-bit Windows.
Windows 8 and 10 support The VLC port for and is backed by a campaign on to add support for a new GUI based on Microsoft's, that will run on the. All the existing features including video filters, subtitle support and an equalizer are present in Windows 8. A beta version of VLC for Windows 8 was released to the Microsoft Store on March 13, 2014.
A was created for Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile. Android support. ^ Until VLC 1.1.0, to use AMR as audio codec, VLC and FFmpeg had to be compiled with AMR support.
This is because the AMR license is not compatible with the VLC license. This feature needs and might not work on every OS. RealAudio playback is provided through the FFmpeg library which only supports the Cook (RealAudio G2 / RealAudio 8) decoder at the moment. As of 2010, only supported in mono and stereo, so no multichannel support. ^ This is present in 0.9.0 and newer version. Indeo 4 and 5 codecs are not supported.
from 0.9.9 and over. ^ This is from the 0.8.6 version.
VLC must be compiled with mp3lame support References.