VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

VLC can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Here are some key features of "VLC Media Player":

· Free, Open Source and cross-platform media player.
· Independant of systems codecs to support most video types.
· Can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...).
· Live recording.
· Instant pausing and Frame-by-Frame support.
· Finer speed controls.
· New HD codecs (AES3, Dolby Digital Plus, TrueHD, Blu-Ray Linear PCM, Real Video 3.0 and 4.0, ...).
· New formats (Raw Dirac, M2TS, ...) and major improvements in many formats...
· New Dirac encoder and MP3 fixed-point encoder.
· Video scaling in fullscreen.
· RTSP Trickplay support.
· Zipped file playback.
· Customizable toolbars.
· Easier encoding GUI in Qt interface.
· Better integration in Gtk environments.
· MTP devices on linux.
· AirTunes streaming.
· New skin for the skins2 interface.

Requirements:

· QuickTime 6.5.2 or later.
· G4 processor/Intel for smooth MPEG-2 decoding.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Notable fixes and improvements include:
· flv and mpeg2 seeking.
· wmv, wav, rtsp and ssa support.
· Fixes for Qt and MacOS interface.
· Fix of an integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module.
· Translations updates.
· Port of the ZVBI module to Windows for full teletext support.
· Codecs updates for Windows and Mac OS.