Available on Mac Windows Linux

The most popular player on Mac OS X

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac ...) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.
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  • David Field devotee
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    If you have a media file, and your OS's default media player won't play it, i can bet VLC will. its a small footprint app with a HUGE amount of power. It will play almost anything, on anything, with fantastic cross platform support.

  • Gil Freund devotee
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    If only it had reasonable uPNP support it would be perfect

  • markashworth devotee
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    great performance

  • adnane002 devotee
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    Tanks VideoLAN team

  • Shamono expert

    So fast and easy to use. :)

  • Justin Daigle fanatic
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    It's meh. Interface is definitely unattractive. Best video player on Linux though, due to its extensive video format support. On Windows, I just use WMP and K-lite though.

  • shelnes enthusiast
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    Best videoplayer ever! Perfect playback in all fileformats :)

  • 9091 overlord

    1.0.3 on Windows is tracked as 'Various Binaries'.

  • Mazhar Hashmi expert

    It's the best! This media player is very compatible with almost every format out there.

  • GigiAUT expert
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    By far the best Video player out there, compatible with most video formats. Excellent performance, very straight forward GUI, streamlined, and no extra junk features clogging up the system resources. I like the new GUI much better as most of the feature settings you need are now accessible without having to go through hundreds of menu's and selections to get there.

  • toaster501 expert
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    i use it for all my video so far the only thing it cant play is rmvb but you rarely see that format because its useless lol

  • Gil Freund devotee
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    Only missing uPNP support

  • Imapolicecar devotee

    Very, very nice software. Only an issue with playlists starting with the last selected first.

  • Mlies enthusiast
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    THE BEST!

  • Shamono expert

    <3<3<3 VLC great video/audio player that will let me play just about anything.

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Website: videolan.org/vlc
Developer: VideoLAN team
License: Open source
Version: 1.1.0
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Usage: 27 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 19 hours, 33 minutes and 2 seconds
Usage since: 09 February 2009
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Mac
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Windows
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