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VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.
Version 2.2.1 • Windows • 28 MB

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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 - 33

33rd VideoLAN report This is my second report in 2016 about what happened last week in the VLC and VideoLAN communities. VLC on AppleTV Of course, the big news of the week was the release of VLC for the AppleTV. Apple TV is the late[...]

Felix Paul Kühne: Announcing VLC for Apple TV

Today, we are proud to announce VLC on the Apple TV. It’s a full port of VLC media player combined with platform specific features. VLC for Apple TV integrates with a plethora of devices and services on your local network and includes [...]

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[...]

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[TiboCut] ❤️💛💚💙@isabel_tve & @videolan various speed to learn foreign language (why other video players can’t do that?) https://t.co/dxjmCCCbBB

[chantier_libre] Demain 18h30 au Lay t'motiv' à Lay, creusons dans les fonctionnalités de #VLC https://t.co/fkbTyt8jFG @videolan https://t.co/0AvXBX0E5i

[videolan] If you are on the @Microsoft Redmond campus and want to meet people from the VLC and VideoLAN team, we're around here for a few days...

[TiboCut] Rule of third by George Miller on @videolan thanks to the wall feature – (and why I hate Netflix and other players) https://t.co/VpnGBU8ypj

[kierank_] Thanks to the kind soul who sent me even more obscure variants of Cineform HD (cc @videolan) https://t.co/b2zryw5MCI