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VLC media player

January 07, 2023

VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS and iPadOS. VLC is also available on digital distribution platforms such as Apple's App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Store.

VLC media player
top: VLC 3.0.12 (running on Linux and GNOME, playing Spring, a short film by the Blender Foundation)
bottom: VLC 3.0.10 preferences and effects
Developer(s)VideoLAN
Initial releaseFebruary 1, 2001; 21 years ago (2001-02-01)[1]
Stable release(s) [±]
Windows, Linux, & macOS3.0.18[2]  / 29 November 2022; 37 days ago (29 November 2022)
Android3.5.3[3]  / 3 November 2022; 2 months ago (3 November 2022)
ChromeOS1.7.3[4]  / 23 December 2015; 7 years ago (23 December 2015)
iOS, Apple TV3.3.11[5]  / 15 October 2022; 2 months ago (15 October 2022)
Windows (UWP)3.1.2 / 20 July 2018; 4 years ago (2018-07-20)[6][7]
Windows Phone3.1.2 / 20 July 2018; 4 years ago (2018-07-20)[8]
Repository
  • code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
Written inCore: C
GUI: C++ (with Qt), Objective-C (with Cocoa), Swift, Java
Bundled Extensions: Lua[9]
Operating systemWindows, ReactOS, macOS, Linux, Android, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, Xbox system software
PlatformIA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64, MIPS, PowerPC
Available in48 languages[10]
TypeMedia player
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later with some libraries under LGPL-2.1-or-later[11][12] VLC for iOS (MPLv2.0)
Websitevideolan.org/vlc

VLC supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, Video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and can transcode multimedia files.[14]

The default distribution of VLC includes many free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly[15] uses its own muxers and demuxers. It also has its own protocol implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and macOS by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library; however, this library is legally controversial and is not included in many software repositories of Linux distributions as a result.[16][17] It is available on iOS under the MPLv2.[18]

History

The VideoLAN software originated as a French academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client" when VLC was a client of the VideoLAN project. Since VLC is no longer merely a client, that initialism no longer applies.[19][20] It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos from satellite dishes across a campus network. Originally developed by students at the École Centrale Paris, it is now developed by contributors worldwide and is coordinated by VideoLAN, a non-profit organization. Rewritten from scratch in 1998, it was released under GNU General Public License on February 1, 2001, with authorization from the headmaster of the École Centrale Paris. The functionality of the server program, VideoLan Server (VLS), has mostly been subsumed into VLC and has been deprecated.[21] The project name has been changed to VLC media player because there is no longer a client/server infrastructure.

The cone icon used in VLC is a reference to the traffic cones collected by École Centrale's Networking Students' Association.[22] The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon[23] to a higher resolution CGI-rendered version in 2005, illustrated by Richard Øiestad.[24]

In 2007 the VLC project decided, for license compatibility reasons, not to upgrade to the just-released GPLv3.[25] After 13 years of development, version 1.0.0 of VLC media player was released on July 7, 2009.[26] Work began on VLC for Android in 2010 and it has been available for Android devices on the Google Play store since 2011.[27][28] In September 2010, a company named "Applidium" developed a VLC port for iOS under GPLv2 with the endorsement of the VLC project, which was accepted by Apple for their App Store.[29][30] In January 2011, after VLC developer Rémi Denis-Courmont's complaint to Apple about the licensing conflict between the VLC's GPLv2 and the App store's policies,[31] the VLC had been withdrawn from the Apple App Store by Apple.[32] Subsequently, in October 2011 the VLC authors began to relicense the engine parts of VLC from the GPL-2.0-or-later to the LGPL-2.1-or-later to achieve better license compatibility, for instance with the Apple App Store.[33][34][35][36] In July 2013 the VLC application could be resubmitted to the iOS App Store under the MPL-2.0.[37] Version 2.0.0 of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012.[12][38] The version for the Windows Store was released on March 13, 2014. Support for Windows RT, Windows Phone and Xbox One were added later.[39] As of 2016 VLC is the third in the sourceforge.net overall download count,[40] and there have been more than 3 billion downloads.[41]

Version 3.0 was in development for Windows, Linux and macOS since June 2016[42] and released in February 2018.[43] It contains many new features including Chromecast output support (except subtitles[44]), hardware-accelerated decoding, 4K and 8K playback, 10-bit and HDR playback, 360° video and 3D audio, audio passthrough for HD audio codecs, Blu-ray Java menu support, and local network drive browsing.

In December 2017 the European Parliament approved a budget that funds a bug bounty program for VLC to improve the EU's IT infrastructure.[45]

Release history

Version[46] Codename[47] Release date
1.0.0 Goldeneye 2009-07-07
1.0.1 2009-07-28
1.0.2 2009-09-22
1.0.3 2009-10-31
1.0.4 2009-12-10
1.0.5 2010-01-31
1.0.6 2010-04-21
1.1.0 The Luggage 2010-06-22
1.1.1 2010-07-21
1.1.2 2010-07-29
1.1.3 2010-08-18
1.1.4 2010-08-27
1.1.5 2010-11-13
1.1.6 2011-01-23
1.1.7 2011-02-01
1.1.8 2011-03-23
1.1.9 2011-04-12
1.1.10 2011-06-06
1.1.11 2011-07-15
1.1.12 2011-10-06
1.1.13 2011-12-20
2.0.0 Twoflower 2012-02-18
2.0.1 2012-03-19
2.0.2 2012-07-01
2.0.3 2012-07-19
2.0.4 2012-10-18
2.0.5 2012-12-15
2.0.6 2013-04-11
2.0.7 2013-06-10
2.0.8 2013-07-29
2.0.9 2013-11-05
2.0.10 2014-02-21
2.1.0 Rincewind 2013-09-26
2.1.1 2013-11-14
2.1.2 2013-12-10
2.1.3 2014-02-04
2.1.4 2014-02-21
2.1.5 2014-07-26
2.2.0 Weatherwax 2015-02-27
2.2.1 Terry Pratchett 2015-04-16
2.2.2 Weatherwax 2016-02-06
2.2.3 2016-05-03
2.2.4 2016-06-05
2.2.5.1 2017-05-12
2.2.8 2017-12-05
3.0.0 Vetinari 2018-02-09
3.0.1 2018-02-28
3.0.2 2018-04-23
3.0.3 2018-05-29
3.0.4 2018-08-31
3.0.5 2018-12-27
3.0.6 2019-01-10
3.0.7 2019-06-07
3.0.8 2019-08-19
3.0.10 2020-04-28
3.0.11 2020-06-16
3.0.11.1 2020-07-29
3.0.12 2021-01-18
3.0.13 2021-05-10
3.0.14 2021-05-11
3.0.16 2021-06-21
3.0.17 2022-04-19
3.0.18 2022-11-29
4.0.x Otto Chriek

Design principles

Modular design

VLC, like most multimedia frameworks, has a very modular design which makes it easier to include modules/plugins for new file formats, codecs, interfaces, or streaming methods. VLC 1.0.0 has more than 380 modules.[48] The VLC core creates its own graph of modules dynamically, depending on the situation: input protocol, input file format, input codec, video card capabilities and other parameters. In VLC, almost everything is a module, like interfaces, video and audio outputs, controls, scalers, codecs, and audio/video filters.

Interfaces

 
Keyboard map (basic)

The default GUI is based on Be API on BeOS, Cocoa for macOS, and Qt 4 for Linux and Windows, but all give a similar standard interface. The old default GUI was based on wxWidgets on Linux and Windows.[49] VLC supports highly customizable skins through the skins2 interface,[50] and also supports Winamp 2 and XMMS skins.[51] Skins are not supported in the macOS version.[52] VLC has ncurses,[53] remote control,[54] and telnet[55] console interfaces. There is also an HTTP[56] interface, as well as interfaces for mouse gestures and keyboard hotkeys.[57]

Features

Effects (desktop version)

The desktop version of VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, and mirror videos as well as create display walls or add a logo overlay during playback. It can also output video as ASCII art.

An interactive zoom feature allows magnifying into video during playback.[58] Still images can be extracted from video at original resolution,[59] and individual frames can be stepped through, although only in forward direction.[60]

Playback can be gamified by splitting the picture inside the viewport into draggable puzzle pieces, where the row and column count can be set as desired.[61]

Formats

Because VLC is a packet-based media player it plays almost all video content. Even some damaged, incomplete, or unfinished files can be played, such as those still downloading via a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. It also plays m2t MPEG transport streams (.TS) files while they are still being digitized from an HDV camera via a FireWire cable, making it possible to monitor the video as it is being played. The player can also use libcdio to access .iso files so that users can play files on a disk image, even if the user's operating system cannot work directly with .iso images.

VLC supports all audio and video formats supported by libavcodec and libavformat. This means that VLC can play back H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 2 video as well as support FLV or MXF 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 free software DVD players that ignore DVD region coding on RPC-1 firmware drives, making it a region-free player. However, it does not do the same on RPC-2 firmware drives, as in these cases the region coding is enforced by the drive itself, however, it can still brute-force the CSS encryption to play a foreign-region DVD on an RPC-2 drive.

VLC media player can play high-definition recordings of D-VHS 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 FireWire 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 desktop wallpaper, like Windows DreamScene, by using DirectX, 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 screencasts.[62][63][64] On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can thus make use of some third-party DLLs (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 USB flash drive or other external drive. VLC can be extended through scripting; it uses the Lua scripting language.[65][66] VLC can play videos in the AVCHD format, a highly compressed format used in recent HD camcorders. VLC can generate a number of music visualization displays. The program is able to convert media files into various supported formats.[67]

Both desktop and mobile releases are equipped with an audio equalizer.[68]

Operating system compatibility

VLC media player is cross-platform, with versions for Windows, Android, ChromeOS, BeOS, Windows Phone, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, OS/2, Linux, and Syllable.[69] However, forward and backward compatibility between versions of VLC media player and different versions of OSes are not maintained over more than a few generations.[70] 64-bit builds are available for 64-bit Windows.[71]

Windows 8 and 10 support

The VLC port for Windows 8 and Windows 10 is backed by a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to add support for a new GUI based on Microsoft's Metro design language, that will run on the Windows Runtime. All the existing features including video filters, subtitle support, and an equalizer are present in Windows 8.[72] A beta version of VLC for Windows 8 was released to the Microsoft Store on March 13, 2014.[73] A universal app was created for Windows 8, 8.1, 10, Windows Phone 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 Mobile.

Android support

 
VLC media player on Android

In May 2012, the VLC team stated that a version of VLC for Android was being developed.[74] The stable release version 1.0 was made available on Google Play on December 8, 2014.[75]

Use of VLC with other programs

Bindings

libVLC
Developer(s)VideoLAN Project
Initial releaseFebruary 1, 2001
Stable release
3.0.10[76]
Repository
  • code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc  
Written inC
TypeMultimedia Library
LicenseLGPL-2.1-or-later
Websitewiki.videolan.org/LibVLC

Several APIs can connect to VLC and use its functionality:

Browser plugins

On Windows, Linux, macOS, and some other Unix-like platforms, VLC provides an NPAPI plugin, which enables users to view QuickTime, Windows Media, MP3, and Ogg files embedded in websites without using additional software. It supports many web browsers including Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite, and other Netscape plug-in based browsers; Safari, Chrome, and other WebKit based browsers; and Opera. Google used this plugin to build the Google Video Player web browser plugin before switching to use Adobe Flash.[89]

Starting with version 0.8.2, VLC also provides an ActiveX plugin, which lets people view QuickTime (MOV), Windows Media, MP3, and Ogg files embedded in websites when using Internet Explorer.

Applications that use libVLC

VLC can handle some incomplete files and in some cases can be used to preview files being downloaded. Several programs make use of this, including eMule and KCeasy. The free/open-source Internet television application Miro also uses VLC code. HandBrake, an open-source video encoder, used to load libdvdcss from VLC Media Player.[90] Easy Subtitles Synchronizer, a freeware subtitle editing program for Windows, uses VLC to preview the video with the edited subtitles.

Format support

Input formats

VLC can read many formats, depending on the operating system it is running on, including:[91]

Output formats

VLC can transcode or stream audio and video into several formats depending on the operating system, including:

Legality

The VLC media player software installers for the macOS platform and the Windows platform include the libdvdcss DVD decryption library, even though this library may be legally restricted in certain jurisdictions.[95][96]

India

In May 2022, it was reported by MediaNama that VLC was banned in India and its website was inaccessible from India under the provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000.[97] Neither the developers, nor the Indian government offered any explanation to the ban, according to India Today. The official VideoLAN Twitter account stated in August that the website was blocked in India from 13 February 2022.[98] A report by Hindustan Times indicated that the ban could be due to links with China.[99] India had in 2020 banned over 200 Chinese apps following the 2020–2022 China–India skirmishes. Another Hindustan Times report from April quoting Symantec said that Chinese hackers were depending on VLC to launch malware they had previously installed on Windows machines.[100] The technique they used is called DLL side-loading, in which an external library that a legitimate program loads at runtime is substituted with a modified version containing the malware.[101] VideoLan president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf said, the block was most likely a result of a misunderstanding of the Chinese security issue, although the Indian Government did not provide for a reason as to why it was blocked.[102] In October 2022, VLC, with assistance from the Indian digital rights organization Internet Freedom Foundation sent a legal notice to the Indian Government, following which, in November 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India decided to remove the ban from the VLC website. [103]

United States

The VLC media player software is able to read audio and video data from DVDs that incorporate Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption, even though the VLC media player software lacks a CSS decryption license.[104] The unauthorized decryption of CSS-encrypted DVD content or unauthorized distribution of CSS decryption tools may violate the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act.[104] Decryption of CSS-encrypted DVD content has been temporarily authorized for certain purposes (such as documentary filmmaking that uses short portions of DVD content for criticism or commentary) under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act anticircumvention exemptions that were issued by the US Copyright Office in 2010.[105] However, these exemptions do not change the DMCA's ban on the distribution of CSS decryption tools; including those distributed with VLC.[106]

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ a b 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.
  2. ^ This feature needs sound fonts and might not work on every OS.
  3. ^ RealAudio playback is provided through the FFmpeg library which only supports the Cook (RealAudio G2 / RealAudio 8) decoder at the moment.[when?]
  4. ^ As of 2010, only supported in mono and stereo, so no multichannel support.
  5. ^ a b c d This is present in 0.9.0 and newer version.
  6. ^ Indeo 4 and 5 codecs are not supported.
  7. ^ From 0.9.9 and over.
  8. ^ a b c d e This is from the 0.8.6 version.
  9. ^ VLC must be compiled with mp3lame support.

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VLC media player previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC is a free and open source portable cross platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms such as Android iOS and iPadOS VLC is also available on digital distribution platforms such as Apple s App Store Google Play and Microsoft Store VLC media playertop VLC 3 0 12 running on Linux and GNOME playing Spring a short film by the Blender Foundation bottom VLC 3 0 10 preferences and effectsDeveloper s VideoLANInitial releaseFebruary 1 2001 21 years ago 2001 02 01 1 Stable release s Windows Linux amp macOS3 0 18 2 29 November 2022 37 days ago 29 November 2022 Android3 5 3 3 3 November 2022 2 months ago 3 November 2022 ChromeOS1 7 3 4 23 December 2015 7 years ago 23 December 2015 iOS Apple TV3 3 11 5 15 October 2022 2 months ago 15 October 2022 Windows UWP 3 1 2 20 July 2018 4 years ago 2018 07 20 6 7 Windows Phone3 1 2 20 July 2018 4 years ago 2018 07 20 8 Repositorycode wbr videolan wbr org wbr videolan wbr vlcWritten inCore C GUI C with Qt Objective C with Cocoa Swift Java Bundled Extensions Lua 9 Operating systemWindows ReactOS macOS Linux Android ChromeOS iOS iPadOS tvOS watchOS Xbox system softwarePlatformIA 32 x86 64 ARM ARM64 MIPS PowerPCAvailable in48 languages 10 TypeMedia playerLicenseGPL 2 0 or later with some libraries under LGPL 2 1 or later 11 12 VLC for iOS MPLv2 0 Websitevideolan org vlcVLC supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats including DVD Video Video CD and streaming protocols It is able to stream media over computer networks and can transcode multimedia files 14 The default distribution of VLC includes many free decoding and encoding libraries avoiding the need for finding calibrating proprietary plugins The libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project provides many of VLC s codecs but the player mainly 15 uses its own muxers and demuxers It also has its own protocol implementations It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and macOS by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library however this library is legally controversial and is not included in many software repositories of Linux distributions as a result 16 17 It is available on iOS under the MPLv2 18 Contents 1 History 1 1 Release history 2 Design principles 2 1 Modular design 2 2 Interfaces 3 Features 3 1 Effects desktop version 3 2 Formats 4 Operating system compatibility 4 1 Windows 8 and 10 support 4 2 Android support 5 Use of VLC with other programs 5 1 Bindings 5 2 Browser plugins 5 3 Applications that use libVLC 6 Format support 6 1 Input formats 6 2 Output formats 7 Legality 7 1 India 7 2 United States 8 See also 9 Explanatory notes 10 References 11 External linksHistory EditThe VideoLAN software originated as a French academic project in 1996 VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client when VLC was a client of the VideoLAN project Since VLC is no longer merely a client that initialism no longer applies 19 20 It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos from satellite dishes across a campus network Originally developed by students at the Ecole Centrale Paris it is now developed by contributors worldwide and is coordinated by VideoLAN a non profit organization Rewritten from scratch in 1998 it was released under GNU General Public License on February 1 2001 with authorization from the headmaster of the Ecole Centrale Paris The functionality of the server program VideoLan Server VLS has mostly been subsumed into VLC and has been deprecated 21 The project name has been changed to VLC media player because there is no longer a client server infrastructure The cone icon used in VLC is a reference to the traffic cones collected by Ecole Centrale s Networking Students Association 22 The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon 23 to a higher resolution CGI rendered version in 2005 illustrated by Richard Oiestad 24 In 2007 the VLC project decided for license compatibility reasons not to upgrade to the just released GPLv3 25 After 13 years of development version 1 0 0 of VLC media player was released on July 7 2009 26 Work began on VLC for Android in 2010 and it has been available for Android devices on the Google Play store since 2011 27 28 In September 2010 a company named Applidium developed a VLC port for iOS under GPLv2 with the endorsement of the VLC project which was accepted by Apple for their App Store 29 30 In January 2011 after VLC developer Remi Denis Courmont s complaint to Apple about the licensing conflict between the VLC s GPLv2 and the App store s policies 31 the VLC had been withdrawn from the Apple App Store by Apple 32 Subsequently in October 2011 the VLC authors began to relicense the engine parts of VLC from the GPL 2 0 or later to the LGPL 2 1 or later to achieve better license compatibility for instance with the Apple App Store 33 34 35 36 In July 2013 the VLC application could be resubmitted to the iOS App Store under the MPL 2 0 37 Version 2 0 0 of VLC media player was released on February 18 2012 12 38 The version for the Windows Store was released on March 13 2014 Support for Windows RT Windows Phone and Xbox One were added later 39 As of 2016 update VLC is the third in the sourceforge net overall download count 40 and there have been more than 3 billion downloads 41 Version 3 0 was in development for Windows Linux and macOS since June 2016 42 and released in February 2018 43 It contains many new features including Chromecast output support except subtitles 44 hardware accelerated decoding 4K and 8K playback 10 bit and HDR playback 360 video and 3D audio audio passthrough for HD audio codecs Blu ray Java menu support and local network drive browsing In December 2017 the European Parliament approved a budget that funds a bug bounty program for VLC to improve the EU s IT infrastructure 45 Release history Edit Version 46 Codename 47 Release date1 0 0 Goldeneye 2009 07 071 0 1 2009 07 281 0 2 2009 09 221 0 3 2009 10 311 0 4 2009 12 101 0 5 2010 01 311 0 6 2010 04 211 1 0 The Luggage 2010 06 221 1 1 2010 07 211 1 2 2010 07 291 1 3 2010 08 181 1 4 2010 08 271 1 5 2010 11 131 1 6 2011 01 231 1 7 2011 02 011 1 8 2011 03 231 1 9 2011 04 121 1 10 2011 06 061 1 11 2011 07 151 1 12 2011 10 061 1 13 2011 12 202 0 0 Twoflower 2012 02 182 0 1 2012 03 192 0 2 2012 07 012 0 3 2012 07 192 0 4 2012 10 182 0 5 2012 12 152 0 6 2013 04 112 0 7 2013 06 102 0 8 2013 07 292 0 9 2013 11 052 0 10 2014 02 212 1 0 Rincewind 2013 09 262 1 1 2013 11 142 1 2 2013 12 102 1 3 2014 02 042 1 4 2014 02 212 1 5 2014 07 262 2 0 Weatherwax 2015 02 272 2 1 Terry Pratchett 2015 04 162 2 2 Weatherwax 2016 02 062 2 3 2016 05 032 2 4 2016 06 052 2 5 1 2017 05 122 2 8 2017 12 053 0 0 Vetinari 2018 02 093 0 1 2018 02 283 0 2 2018 04 233 0 3 2018 05 293 0 4 2018 08 313 0 5 2018 12 273 0 6 2019 01 103 0 7 2019 06 073 0 8 2019 08 193 0 10 2020 04 283 0 11 2020 06 163 0 11 1 2020 07 293 0 12 2021 01 183 0 13 2021 05 103 0 14 2021 05 113 0 16 2021 06 213 0 17 2022 04 193 0 18 2022 11 294 0 x Otto ChriekDesign principles EditModular design Edit VLC like most multimedia frameworks has a very modular design which makes it easier to include modules plugins for new file formats codecs interfaces or streaming methods VLC 1 0 0 has more than 380 modules 48 The VLC core creates its own graph of modules dynamically depending on the situation input protocol input file format input codec video card capabilities and other parameters In VLC almost everything is a module like interfaces video and audio outputs controls scalers codecs and audio video filters Interfaces Edit Keyboard map basic The default GUI is based on Be API on BeOS Cocoa for macOS and Qt 4 for Linux and Windows but all give a similar standard interface The old default GUI was based on wxWidgets on Linux and Windows 49 VLC supports highly customizable skins through the skins2 interface 50 and also supports Winamp 2 and XMMS skins 51 Skins are not supported in the macOS version 52 VLC has ncurses 53 remote control 54 and telnet 55 console interfaces There is also an HTTP 56 interface as well as interfaces for mouse gestures and keyboard hotkeys 57 Features EditEffects desktop version Edit The desktop version of VLC media player has some filters that can distort rotate split deinterlace and mirror videos as well as create display walls or add a logo overlay during playback It can also output video as ASCII art An interactive zoom feature allows magnifying into video during playback 58 Still images can be extracted from video at original resolution 59 and individual frames can be stepped through although only in forward direction 60 Playback can be gamified by splitting the picture inside the viewport into draggable puzzle pieces where the row and column count can be set as desired 61 Formats Edit Because VLC is a packet based media player it plays almost all video content Even some damaged incomplete or unfinished files can be played such as those still downloading via a peer to peer P2P network It also plays m2t MPEG transport streams TS files while they are still being digitized from an HDV camera via a FireWire cable making it possible to monitor the video as it is being played The player can also use libcdio to access iso files so that users can play files on a disk image even if the user s operating system cannot work directly with iso images VLC supports all audio and video formats supported by libavcodec and libavformat This means that VLC can play back H 264 or MPEG 4 Part 2 video as well as support FLV or MXF 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 free software DVD players that ignore DVD region coding on RPC 1 firmware drives making it a region free player However it does not do the same on RPC 2 firmware drives as in these cases the region coding is enforced by the drive itself however it can still brute force the CSS encryption to play a foreign region DVD on an RPC 2 drive VLC media player can play high definition recordings of D VHS 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 FireWire 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 desktop wallpaper like Windows DreamScene by using DirectX 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 screencasts 62 63 64 On Microsoft Windows VLC also supports the Direct Media Object DMO framework and can thus make use of some third party DLLs 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 USB flash drive or other external drive VLC can be extended through scripting it uses the Lua scripting language 65 66 VLC can play videos in the AVCHD format a highly compressed format used in recent HD camcorders VLC can generate a number of music visualization displays The program is able to convert media files into various supported formats 67 Both desktop and mobile releases are equipped with an audio equalizer 68 Operating system compatibility EditVLC media player is cross platform with versions for Windows Android ChromeOS BeOS Windows Phone iOS iPadOS macOS tvOS OS 2 Linux and Syllable 69 However forward and backward compatibility between versions of VLC media player and different versions of OSes are not maintained over more than a few generations 70 64 bit builds are available for 64 bit Windows 71 Windows 8 and 10 support Edit The VLC port for Windows 8 and Windows 10 is backed by a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to add support for a new GUI based on Microsoft s Metro design language that will run on the Windows Runtime All the existing features including video filters subtitle support and an equalizer are present in Windows 8 72 A beta version of VLC for Windows 8 was released to the Microsoft Store on March 13 2014 73 A universal app was created for Windows 8 8 1 10 Windows Phone 8 8 1 and Windows 10 Mobile Android support Edit VLC media player on Android In May 2012 the VLC team stated that a version of VLC for Android was being developed 74 The stable release version 1 0 was made available on Google Play on December 8 2014 75 Use of VLC with other programs EditBindings Edit libVLCDeveloper s VideoLAN ProjectInitial releaseFebruary 1 2001Stable release3 0 10 76 Repositorycode wbr videolan wbr org wbr videolan wbr vlc Written inCTypeMultimedia LibraryLicenseLGPL 2 1 or laterWebsitewiki wbr videolan wbr org wbr LibVLCSeveral APIs can connect to VLC and use its functionality libVLC API the VLC Core for C and C 77 VLCKit an Objective C framework for macOS 78 LibVLCSharp Crossplatform NET bindings to libVLC C F VB 79 JavaScript API the evolution of ActiveX API and Firefox integration 80 D Bus controls 81 Go bindings 82 Python controls 83 Java API 84 DirectShow filters 85 Delphi Pascal API PasLibVlc by Robert Jedrzejczyk 86 Free Pascal bindings and an OOP wrapper component via the libvlc pp and vlc pp units This comes standard with the Free Pascal Compiler as of November 6 2012 87 The Phonon multimedia API for Qt and KDE applications can optionally use VLC as a backend 88 Browser plugins Edit On Windows Linux macOS and some other Unix like platforms VLC provides an NPAPI plugin which enables users to view QuickTime Windows Media MP3 and Ogg files embedded in websites without using additional software It supports many web browsers including Firefox Mozilla Application Suite and other Netscape plug in based browsers Safari Chrome and other WebKit based browsers and Opera Google used this plugin to build the Google Video Player web browser plugin before switching to use Adobe Flash 89 Starting with version 0 8 2 VLC also provides an ActiveX plugin which lets people view QuickTime MOV Windows Media MP3 and Ogg files embedded in websites when using Internet Explorer Applications that use libVLC Edit VLC can handle some incomplete files and in some cases can be used to preview files being downloaded Several programs make use of this including eMule and KCeasy The free open source Internet television application Miro also uses VLC code HandBrake an open source video encoder used to load libdvdcss from VLC Media Player 90 Easy Subtitles Synchronizer a freeware subtitle editing program for Windows uses VLC to preview the video with the edited subtitles Format support EditInput formats Edit VLC can read many formats depending on the operating system it is running on including 91 Container formats 3GP a ASF AVI DVR MS FLV Matroska MKV MIDI b QuickTime File Format MP4 Ogg OGM WAV MPEG 2 ES PS TS PVA MP3 AIFF Raw audio Raw DV MXF VOB RM Blu ray DVD Video VCD SVCD CD DA DVB HEIF AVIF Audio coding formats AAC AC3 ALAC AMR a DTS DV Audio XM FLAC It MACE MOD Monkey s Audio MP3 Opus 92 PLS QCP QDM2 QDMC RealAudio c Speex Screamtracker 3 S3M TTA Vorbis WavPack d WMA WMA 1 2 WMA 3 partially 93 Capture devices Video4Linux on Linux DirectShow on Windows Desktop screencast Digital TV DVB C DVB S DVB T DVB S2 DVB T2 ATSC Clear QAM Network protocols FTP HTTP MMS RSS Atom RTMP RTP unicast or multicast RTSP UDP Sat IP Smooth Streaming Network streaming formats Apple HLS Flash RTMP MPEG DASH MPEG Transport Stream RTP RTSP ISMA 3GPP PSS Windows Media MMS Subtitles Advanced SubStation Alpha Closed Captions DVB DVD Video MPEG 4 Timed Text MPL2 e OGM SubStation Alpha SubRip SVCD Teletext e Text file VobSub WebVTT TTML Video coding formats Cinepak Dirac DV H 263 H 264 MPEG 4 AVC H 265 MPEG HEVC 94 AV1 HuffYUV Indeo 3 f MJPEG MPEG 1 MPEG 2 MPEG 4 Part 2 RealVideo 3 amp 4 g Sorenson Theora VC 1 h VP5 h VP6 h VP8 VP9 94 DNxHD ProRes and some WMV Digital Camcorder formats MOD and TOD via USB Output formats Edit VLC can transcode or stream audio and video into several formats depending on the operating system including Container formats ASF AVI FLAC FLV e Fraps e Matroska MP4 MPJPEG MPEG 2 ES MP3 Ogg PS PVA QuickTime File Format TS WAV WebM Audio coding formats AAC AC 3 DV Audio FLAC MP3 i Speex Vorbis Streaming protocols HTTP MMS RTSP RTP UDP Video coding formats Dirac DV H 263 H 264 MPEG 4 AVC H 265 MPEG H HEVC MJPEG MPEG 1 MPEG 2 MPEG 4 Part 2 Theora VP5 h VP6 VP8 h VP9 94 Legality EditThe VLC media player software installers for the macOS platform and the Windows platform include the libdvdcss DVD decryption library even though this library may be legally restricted in certain jurisdictions 95 96 India Edit In May 2022 it was reported by MediaNama that VLC was banned in India and its website was inaccessible from India under the provisions of the Information Technology Act 2000 97 Neither the developers nor the Indian government offered any explanation to the ban according to India Today The official VideoLAN Twitter account stated in August that the website was blocked in India from 13 February 2022 98 A report by Hindustan Times indicated that the ban could be due to links with China 99 India had in 2020 banned over 200 Chinese apps following the 2020 2022 China India skirmishes Another Hindustan Times report from April quoting Symantec said that Chinese hackers were depending on VLC to launch malware they had previously installed on Windows machines 100 The technique they used is called DLL side loading in which an external library that a legitimate program loads at runtime is substituted with a modified version containing the malware 101 VideoLan president and lead developer Jean Baptiste Kempf said the block was most likely a result of a misunderstanding of the Chinese security issue although the Indian Government did not provide for a reason as to why it was blocked 102 In October 2022 VLC with assistance from the Indian digital rights organization Internet Freedom Foundation sent a legal notice to the Indian Government following which in November 2022 the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Government of India decided to remove the ban from the VLC website 103 United States Edit The VLC media player software is able to read audio and video data from DVDs that incorporate Content Scramble System CSS encryption even though the VLC media player software lacks a CSS decryption license 104 The unauthorized decryption of CSS encrypted DVD content or unauthorized distribution of CSS decryption tools may violate the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act 104 Decryption of CSS encrypted DVD content has been temporarily authorized for certain purposes such as documentary filmmaking that uses short portions of DVD content for criticism or commentary under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act anticircumvention exemptions that were issued by the US Copyright Office in 2010 105 However these exemptions do not change the DMCA s ban on the distribution of CSS decryption tools including those distributed with VLC 106 See also Edit Free and open source software portalComparison of video player software List of codecs List of music softwareExplanatory notes Edit a b 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 sound fonts 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 when As of 2010 update only supported in mono and stereo so no multichannel support a b c d This is present in 0 9 0 and newer version Indeo 4 and 5 codecs are not supported From 0 9 9 and over a b c d e This is from the 0 8 6 version VLC must be compiled with mp3lame support References Edit 15 years of VLC and VideoLAN Jean Baptiste Kempf Retrieved April 15 2017 https code videolan org videolan vlc tags 3 0 18 publication date 29 November 2022 retrieved 30 November 2022 https www videolan org vlc download android html retrieved 1 December 2022 VLC Chrome Web Store December 23 2015 Retrieved April 4 2022 https apps apple com app id650377962 Official Download of VLC media player for Windows Store VideoLAN www videolan org VideoLAN July 20 2018 Retrieved August 7 2018 Get VLC Microsoft Store www microsoft com VideoLAN July 20 2018 Retrieved August 7 2018 Official Download of VLC media player for Windows Phone VideoLAN www videolan org VideoLAN July 20 2018 Retrieved August 7 2018 VLSub addons videolan org VideoLAN internationalization VideoLAN Retrieved April 15 2017 VLC engine relicensed to LGPL VideoLAN December 21 2011 Retrieved April 15 2017 a b VLC reaches 2 1 2 VideoLAN December 10 2013 Retrieved April 15 2017 VLC media player Index of testing Retrieved February 9 2018 VLC Features VideoLAN Retrieved April 15 2017 Contrib Status VideoLAN Wiki wiki videolan org Retrieved July 15 2017 libdvdcss VideoLAN www videolan org Retrieved February 8 2020 Hoffman Chris Why Watching DVDs on Linux is Illegal in the USA How To Geek Retrieved February 8 2020 VLC for Mobile App Store Retrieved November 16 2021 Kempf Jean Baptiste November 23 2006 VLC Name Yet another blog for JBKempf Retrieved April 15 2017 VideoLAN Team Intellectual Properties VideoLAN Wiki Retrieved April 15 2017 The cross platform streaming solution VideoLAN Retrieved April 15 2017 Jon Lech Johansen June 23 2005 VLC cone Jon Lech Johansen s blog Retrieved April 15 2017 VideoLAN Project PNG https code videolan org videolan vlc raw 85e4b3a17d6a107a0f73be40c52c080354b3ddd0 share vlc48x48 png Retrieved December 6 2022 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help vlc48x48 png PNG VideoLAN Project Retrieved December 6 2022 Denis Courmont Remi VLC media player to remain under GNU GPL version 2 VideoLAN Retrieved April 15 2017 In 2001 VLC was released under the OSI approved GNU General Public version 2 with the commonly offered option to use any later version thereof though there was not any such later version at the time Following the release by the Free Software Foundation FSF of the new version 3 of its GNU General Public License GPL on the 29th of June 2007 contributors to the VLC media player and other software projects hosted at videolan org debated the possibility of updating the licensing terms for future version of the VLC media player and other hosted projects to version 3 of the GPL There is strong concern that these new additional requirements might not match the industrial and economic reality of our time especially in the market of consumer electronics It is our belief that changing our licensing terms to GPL version 3 would currently not be in the best interest of our community as a whole Consequently we plan to keep distributing future versions of VLC media player under the terms of the GPL version 2 we will continue to distribute the VLC media player source code under GPL version 2 or any later version until further notice Paul Ryan July 8 2009 VLC 1 0 officially released after more than 10 years of work Ars Technica Retrieved January 12 2013 VLC on Android Spill the Beans February 2 2011 Archived from the original on March 16 2016 Retrieved October 28 2013 VLC media player for Android VideoLan Retrieved October 28 2013 Sorrel Charlie September 10 2010 Hands On with VLC Movie Player for iPad Wired Retrieved June 3 2022 Cheng Jacqui November 1 2010 The VLC iOS license dispute and how it could spread to Android Ars Technica Retrieved June 3 2022 Cheng Jacqui January 10 2011 VLC for iOS vanishes 2 months after eruption of GPL dispute Ars Technica Retrieved June 3 2022 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down for over two months in India MediaNama May 19 2022 Retrieved August 14 2022 DelhiAugust 12 India Today Tech New VLC Media Player banned in India website and VLC download link blocked India Today Retrieved August 14 2022 Popular VLC Media Player banned in India Report HT Tech August 13 2022 Retrieved August 14 2022 Do you use VLC media player Beware Hackers in China have launched malware attack HT Tech April 10 2022 Retrieved August 14 2022 Chinese hackers abuse VLC Media Player to launch malware loader BleepingComputer Retrieved November 11 2022 VLC says India internet providers blocking site poses threat to users TechCrunch August 17 2022 Retrieved November 18 2022 India lifts download ban on VLC Tech Crunch November 14 2022 Retrieved November 18 2022 a b Horton Steve July 17 2009 VLC Video Player s New DVD Copying Feature Could Run Afoul of the MPAA PCWorld Retrieved November 12 2010 Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that 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