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VLC media player
Screenshot of VLC running under Ubuntu
Developed by	VideoLAN Project
Initial release	February 1, 2001 (2001-02-01)
Stable release	0.8.6h  (June 6, 2008 (2008-06-06); 30 days ago) [+/−]
Preview release	0.9.0-git  (Git) [+/−]
Written in	C
OS	Cross-platform
Available in	multilingual
Genre	Media player
License	GNU General Public License
Website	VideoLAN.org (English)

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It is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various different formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but that meaning is now deprecated.^{[1] [2]} A codec is a device or program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. ... A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file. ... DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc - see Etymology) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ... VCD redirects here. ... Streaming media is multimedia that is continuously received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider. ... This article concerns communication between pairs of electronic devices. ... A computer network is an interconnected group of computers. ... In computer software standards and documentation, deprecation is the gradual phasing-out of a software or programming language feature. ...

It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for BeOS, Syllable, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, MorphOS, Solaris and Windows CE, and is widely used with over 85 million downloads for version 0.8.6.^[3] BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. ... Syllable is a free and open source operating system for Intel x86 Pentium and compatible processors. ... BSD redirects here. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Mac OS X (pronounced )[3] is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... Windows redirects here. ... MorphOS is a mixed proprietary and open source operating system produced for the Pegasos PowerPC (PPC)-processor-based computer, most models of PPC-accelerated classic Amiga computers, and the EFIKA PPC consumer device. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ... Windows CE (also known officially as Windows Embedded CE since version 6. ...

VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries; on the Windows platform, this greatly reduces the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins (a somewhat cumbersome problem that has inspired tools such as K-Lite and GSpot). Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library. Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... “K-Lite” redirects here. ... ... A codec is a device or program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. ... libavcodec is a free software/open source LGPL-licensed library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data; it is written in the C programming language. ... FFmpeg is a collection of software libraries that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video in numerous formats. ... libdvdcss is a free, highly portable library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System. ...

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History

Originally the VideoLAN project was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos across a network. It was developed by students at the École Centrale Paris. VLC was the client for the VideoLAN project, with VLC standing for VideoLAN Client. It was released under the GPL on February 1, 2001. It is now developed by contributors worldwide. The functionality of the server program, VideoLAN Server (VLS), has mostly been subsumed into VLC. The VideoLAN Server has been discontinued. The project name has changed to VLC media player since there is no longer a client/server infrastructure. The cone icon is a reference to the traffic cones collected by Ecole Centrale's Networking Students' Association.^[5] The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon^[6] to a higher resolution CGI rendered version in 2006.^[7] This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Traffic cones are usually used to divert traffic. ... Computer-generated imagery[1] (also known as CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media. ...

Design principles

VLC with the wxWidgets interface, running on KDE

VLC with the ncurses interface, running on Mac OS X

VLC's right-click Menu in Ubuntu Gutsy (detailed information on this image's page)

VLC has a very modular design which makes it easier to include modules for new file formats, codecs or streaming methods. This principle also stretches to other areas and there is a wide selection of interfaces, video and audio outputs, controls, and audio and video filter modules. There are more than 300 modules in VLC.^[8] Image File history File links Vlc_wx_kde. ... Image File history File links Vlc_wx_kde. ... wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. ... For the NYSE stock ticker symbol KDE, see 4Kids Entertainment. ... ncurses is a programming library providing an API, allowing the programmer to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. ... Mac OS X (pronounced )[3] is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... Modularity is a concept that has applications in the contexts of computer science, particularly programming, as well as cognitive science in investigating the structure of mind. ...

Interfaces

The standard GUI is based on wxWidgets for Windows and Linux, Cocoa for Mac OS X, and Be API on BeOS; but all give a similar standard interface. A Qt 4 interface is also in the works for Linux and Windows.^[9] GUI can refer to the following: GUI is short for graphical user interface, a term used to describe a type of interface in computing. ... wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) is a widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for cross-platform applications. ... A Cocoa application being developed using Xcode. ... The BeOS API, often called the Be API after Be, Incorporated, is the application programming interface required to write graphical native applications on BeOS, and hence its derivatives such as yellowTAB ZETA. The API is divided into a number of kits, which collect related classes together and bear some relation... For other uses, see Qt. ...

VLC supports highly customizable skins through the skins2 interface, also supporting Winamp 2 and XMMS skins. In computing, skins and themes are custom graphical appearances (GUIs) that can be applied to certain software and websites in order to suit the different tastes of different users. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. ... XMMSs default appearance The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. ...

For console users, VLC has an ncurses interface. As VLC can act as a streaming server, rather than a media player, it can be useful to control it from a remote location and there are interfaces allowing this. The Remote Control Interface is a text-based interface for doing this. There are also interfaces using telnet and HTTP (AJAX). The console is the text output device for system administration messages, particularly those from the BIOS or boot loader, the kernel, from the init system and from the system logger. ... ncurses is a programming library providing an API, allowing the programmer to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. ... For the packet switched network, see Telenet. ... HTTP (for HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the primary method used to convey information on the World Wide Web. ... AJAX redirects here. ...

Control

In addition to these interfaces, it is possible to control VLC in different ways:

• configurable hotkeys
• mouse gestures
• LIRC and infrared controllers

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Features

• VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. (For example, files still downloading via BitTorrent or eMule). 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. This is because it is a packet-based player.
• The player also has the ability to use libcdio to access .iso files so that the user can play files on a disk image, even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images.
• VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by FFmpeg. This means that DVD Video and MPEG-4 playback as well as support for Ogg and Matroska (MKV) file formats work "out of the box". However, this feature is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including MPlayer and xine-lib-based players, can play those formats without need for external codecs. VLC also supports codecs that are not included in FFmpeg.
• VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, deinterlace, mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as ASCII art.
• 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. An entire library of tapes (or about 50 D-VHS 2 hours long) can be placed on a single terabyte sized hard drive. However, they must be imported by playing the tapes in real time, and can't simply be copied as data files.
• 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.
• On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party DLLs.

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Criticism of Playlist

Despite rewrites, the VLC playlist is still far from industry standards. It can not open its native playlist format and retain the saved playlist ordering, regularly placing a number of tracks that should be at the start of the playlist at the end. It also lacks the ability to manage tracks as a group, requiring users to move individual tracks to reorder the playlist. Lastly, some users have reported that when reordering tracks, the playlist can collapse back to the playlist title, requiring expansion before reordering can continue.

Use of VLC with other programs

API

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• libVLC API, which is the VLC Core, for C, C++ and C#.
• JavaScript API, which is the evolution of ActiveX API and Firefox integration.
• D-Bus Controls.
• C# interface.
• Python controls.
• Java API.
• DirectShow filters.^[10]

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Browser plugins

• On Windows, Linux, and some other platforms, VLC provides a NPAPI plugin,^[11] which lets people view some QuickTime and Windows Media files embedded in websites without using Microsoft or Apple Inc. products. It supports Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite, Safari and Opera as well. This plugin was initially used by Google to build the Google Video web browser plugin,^[12] which currently uses Adobe Flash.
• Starting with version 0.8.2, VLC also provides an ActiveX plugin, which lets people view some QuickTime (MOV) and Windows Media files embedded in websites when using Internet Explorer.

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Applications which use the VLC plugin

• VLC can handle incomplete files and can be used to preview files being downloaded. Several programs make use of this, including eMule and KCeasy.
• The free/open-source Miro Media Player (formerly Democracy Player) also uses VLC code.
• The Songbird media browser joins code from VLC and Firefox.
• And a few others...^[13]

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Format support

Readable formats

VLC can read several formats, depending on the operating system VLC is running on.^[14] An operating system (OS) is a software that manages computer resources and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ...

Input 

UDP/RTP unicast or multicast, HTTP, FTP, MMS, DVDs, VCD, SVCD, CD Audio, DVB (only on Linux and on Windows in development versions), Video acquisition (via V4l and DirectShow), RSS/Atom Feeds, and from files stored on your computer.

Container formats

3GP,^[15] ASF, AVI, FLV, MKV, QuickTime, MP4, Ogg, OGM, WAV, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), AIFF, Raw audio, Raw DV, MXF, VOB.

Video formats

Cinepak, DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3,^[16] MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, Sorenson (thus enabling direct playback of the modified Sorenson H.263 encoded videos downloaded from YouTube), Theora, VC-1,^[17] VP5,^[17] VP6,^[17] WMV.

Subtitles

DVD, SVCD, DVB, OGM, (partial)SubStation Alpha,^[18] SubRip, (partial)Advanced SubStation Alpha,^[18] MPEG-4 Timed Text, Text file, Vobsub, MPL2,^[19] Teletext.^[19]

Audio formats

AAC, AC3, ALAC, AMR,^[15] DTS, DV Audio, XM, FLAC, MACE, MP3, PLS (file format), QDM2/QDMC, RealAudio,^[20] Speex, Screamtracker 3/S3M, TTA, Vorbis, WavPack,^[21] WMA.

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WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ... MPEG-2 is a standard for the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information [1]. It is widely used around the world to specify the format of the digital television signals that are broadcast by terrestrial (over-the-air), cable, and direct broadcast satellite TV systems. ... Defined by MPEG communication protocol. ... Program stream (PS or MPEG-PS) is a name for the formats specified in MPEG-1 Systems and MPEG-2 Part 1, Systems (ISO/IEC standard 13818-1). ... Streaming media are media that are consumed (read, heard, viewed) while it is being delivered. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data on personal computers. ... 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Output formats for streaming/encoding

VLC can transcode into several formats depending on the operating system.

Container formats

ASF, AVI, FLV,^[19] MP4, Ogg, Wav, MPEG-2 (ES, PS, TS, PVA, MP3), MPJPEG, FLAC, MOV

Video formats

H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, VP5,^[17] VP6,^[17] Theora, DV

Audio formats

AAC, AC3, DV Audio, FLAC, MP3,^[22] Speex, Vorbis

Streaming protocols

UDP, HTTP, RTP, RTSP, MMS, File

User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. ... Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol used to transfer or convey information on intranets and the World Wide Web. ... The Real-time Transport Protocol (or RTP) defines a standardized packet format for delivering audio and video over the Internet. ... The Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), developed by the IETF and created in 1998 as RFC 2326, is a protocol for use in streaming media systems which allows a client to remotely control a streaming media server, issuing VCR-like commands such as play and pause, and allowing time-based... Microsofts streaming server Microsoft Media Services (also called NetShow Services) uses the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol to transfer unicast data. ...

Unsupported formats

As of 0.8.6c, VLC is unable to play files using the following formats:

• Fraps
• Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.mid/.midi)
• RealMedia (.rm)
• RealMedia Variable Bitrate (.rmvb)

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See also

Free software portal

• List of media players
• Comparison of media players
• List of multimedia (audio/video) codecs
• xine, MPlayer
• MEncoder

Image File history File links Free_Software_Portal_Logo. ... The following is a list of media players. ... The following comparison of media players compares general and technical information for a number of software media player programs. ... The following is a list of codecs. ... xine (officially pronounced [ksi:n], like the name Maxine without Ma[1]) is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. ... This article is about the open source media player. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Mplayer#Mencoder MEncoder is a free command line video decoding, encoding and filtering tool released under the GNU General Public License. ...

References

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VLC

• Official Website
• IRC channel

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