Friday, December 4, 2009

VLC Media Player, Powerful and Highly Portable Multimedia Player

VLC media player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV capture cards and many network streaming protocols.

It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesn't need any external codec, program or codec pack to work.

VLC is the cross-platform media player and streaming server


Features

  • Free and open source cross-platform media player
  • Supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs. This program has many of them already included.
  • Can be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
  • Small file size.
  • Friendly installation process.
  • Gets up and running very quickly.
  • Quick and easy software for any kind of user.


Specifications

Developer/Publisher:
VideoLAN
Homepage:
http://www.videolan.org/
License:
Open Source (Freeware)
Category:
Multimedia Player
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows (all), Mac OS X, Linux
Current version:
VLC Media Player 1.0.3
My rating:
- 5 of 5 - the best


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