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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

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News & Updates

2016-01-12

VideoLAN and the VLC team is excited to announce the first release of VLC for Apple TV. It allows you to get access to all your files and video streams in their native formats without conversions, directly on the new Apple device and your TV. You can find details in our press release.

2015-12-24

VideoLAN is proud to announce the release of version 1.4.0 of libdvdcss.
This release adds support for network callbacks, to play ISOs over the network, Android support, and cleans the codebase.

2015-12-22

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are excited to announce a major version of VLC for iOS today, which adds full support for iOS 9 including split screen and iPad Pro, for Windows shares (SMB), watchOS 2, a new subtitles engine, right-to-left interfaces, system-wide search (spotlight), Touch ID protection, and more.
It will be available on the App Store shortly.

2015-12-17

VideoLAN and the Android teams are happy to announce the port of VLC to the ChromeOS operating system.
This is the port of the Android version to ChromeOS, using the Android Runtime on Chrome. You can download it now!.

2015-12-01

VideoLAN and the Android teams are happy to present the release of VLC for Android 1.7.0. This release includes a large refactoring that gives a new playlist, new notifications, a new subtitles engine, and uses less permissions. Get it now!.

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf: This week in VideoLAN - 32

32nd VideoLAN report Another year, and another week working on VLC and VideoLAN. Happy New Year 2016! Features and changes VLC Another week started with improvements on the new HTTP/2 stack. We mostly got support for HTTPS through[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: These weeks in VideoLAN - 31

31st VideoLAN report After the holiday season, this is the last of the weekly reports for 2015 for VideoLAN and VLC development! Technically, we're already in 2016, but this report will cover the last 2 weeks of 2015 and only a few days[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: libdvdcss 1.4.0 release

libdvdcss 1.4.0 For once, just a very short blogpost, to announce that libdvdcss 1.4.0 is out! This release is a major release of libdvdcss, released a bit more than one year after 1.3.0. It's focused on stability, cleaning, deprecating[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: This week in VideoLAN - 30

30th week of VideoLAN reports And, closing to holidays season, another week goes by, another weekly report about VideoLAN and VLC development you get! Features and changes VLC/ChromeOS release If you've missed it, this week, we [...]

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[mgovmag] VideoLAN تجلب برنامج VLC الشهير إلى منصة Apple TV @VLC @videolan @Dubaismartgov @appletv https://t.co/O50NRKSdJO

[data_nerd] Quick guide to VLC app for Apple TV - Apple TV’s new beta version tvOS 9.2 has some noteworthy features, but vi... https://t.co/mtKmu0SjeV

[videolan] VLC is one of the first Open Source & Copyleft applications on the Apple TV. Do you know any other? #copyleft #opensource

[theglennkelly] @videolan love the #AppleTV #vlc app. Works fab using SMB to my Mac. No more time wasted converting. Direct playback of all files. Well done

[videolan] VLC is now available for the Apple TV! Read all your media on your new Apple Box! https://t.co/bipBEjyxOx https://t.co/BiBGNlxrwV