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VLC media player

VLC 3 running on Linux and GNOME Shell, playing Spring, a short film by the Blender Foundation
Developer(s)	VideoLAN
Initial release	February 1, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-02-01)[1]
Repository	code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
Written in	Core: C GUI: C++ (with Qt), Objective-C (with Cocoa), Swift, Java Bundled Extensions: Lua[2]
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[3]
Type	Media player
License	GPL-2.0 with some libraries under LGPL-2.1[4][5]
Website	videolan.org/vlc

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 files that are corrupt, 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 had 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.

VLC was initially the client for the VideoLAN project, and it was originally made by students at the École Centrale de Paris, and was released under the GPL license on the 1 February 2001.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 cone collected by Ecole Centrale's Networking Students' Association.

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 lets users make personalized skins through the skins2 interface, Winamp 2 and XMMS skins. VLC can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe

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1. ↑ "15 years of VLC and VideoLAN". Jean-Baptiste Kempf. Archived from the original on May 18, 2021. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
2. ↑ "VLSub".
3. ↑ "VideoLAN internationalization". VideoLAN. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
4. ↑ "VLC engine relicensed to LGPL". VideoLAN. December 21, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
5. ↑ "VLC reaches 2.1.2". VideoLAN. December 10, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
6. ↑ "VLC media player, Index of /testing/". Retrieved February 9, 2018.

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