VLC media player facts for kids
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VLC 3 running on Linux and GNOME Shell, playing Spring, a short film by the Blender Foundation
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| Developer(s) | VideoLAN |
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| Initial release | February 1, 2001 |
| Written in | Core: C GUI: C++ (with Qt), Objective-C (with Cocoa), Swift, Java Bundled Extensions: Lua |
| Operating system | Windows, Windows Phone, macOS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, iOS, iPadOS, Apple TV, Tizen, watchOS, Xbox One |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64, MIPS, PowerPC |
| Available in | 48 languages |
| Type | Media player |
| License | GPL-2.0 with some libraries under LGPL-2.1 |
VLC media player (also known as VLC or VideoLAN Client) is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project.
It is a highly portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer that supports many kinds of audio and video. VLC can repair and play corrupt files, damaged or unfinished.
It is one of the most platform-independent players, available for BeOS, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Windows CE, and has over 50 million downloads for version 0.8.6.
VLC uses a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries. Many of its codecs are provided by the libavcodec codec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. VLC gained honor as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD library.
History
VLC was initially the client for the VideoLAN project, and it was originally made by students at the École Centrale de Paris, and was released under the GPL license on the 1 February 2001. It now has supporters and contributors worldwide.
The icon of VLC is a traffic cones collected by Ecole Centrale's Networking Students' Association.
Design principles
VLC has a very flexible design, which makes it easier to include modules for new file formats, codecs or streaming methods. There are more than 300 modules in VLC. VLC also supports highly personalizable skins through the skins2 interface, Winamp 2 and XMMS skins and can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe
Related pages
- List of media players
- Comparison of media players
- List of multimedia (audio/video) codecs
Images for kids
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VLC 3.0.10 preferences and effects (running on Linux)
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VLC on Android
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See also
In Spanish: VLC media player para niños
