About VLC Media Player:
The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC Media Player, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux. VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License. It started as a student project at the French A‰cole Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.
VLC Media Player Features:
- Independant of systems codecs to support most video types
- 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
- Publisher: VideoLAN
- Operating Systems: Windows XP/Vista/Server 2008/7/8/10
- Available languages: English, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Japanese
- License Model: Free
VLC 3.0.14 is the thirteenth update of “Vetinari”:
- Add native support for Apple Silicon
- Fix audio distortion when starting playback on macOS
- Fix crashes with Direct3D video filters
- Fix adaptive streaming resolution settings handling
- Add support for RIST protocol
- Visual improvements on macOS Big Sur
- Several web interface fixes
- YouTube &Vocaroo scripts updates
- And some security issues