VLC VLC (standing for
VideoLAN Client) is a
portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video
codecs and
file formats as well as
DVDs,
VCDs, and various
streaming protocols. It is able to stream over
networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for
Microsoft Windows,
Mac OS X,
iOS,
Android,
Windows Phone,
Linux,
BeOS,
BSD,
Solaris,
ChromeOS, and is widely used with over 4.2 billion downloads as of October 2022.
VLMC VLMC (standing for
VideoLAN Movie Creator) is a cross-platform,
non-linear, video editing
software application based on the
VLC Media Player. The software is still in early development. The latest version is 0.2.0 (released 2014-10-30), released under the GPLv2 license.
VLS The
VLS (standing for
VideoLAN Server) project was originally intended to be used as a server for streaming videos. It has since been merged with the VLC project, and use of VLS is not encouraged.
Codecs The VideoLAN project also hosts several audio/video
decoding and
decryption libraries, such as
libdvdcss which allows the content of
CSS protected
DVDs to be unscrambled,
x264 which can encode
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video,
x265 which can encode
HEVC video,
x262 which can encode
MPEG-2 video,
dav1d which can decode
AV1 video,
libdca which can decode
DTS audio, and the
git repository of the
multimedia framework FFmpeg.
VLMa A new project has been developed, called
VLMa (standing for
VideoLAN Manager). VLMa is an application to manage broadcasts of TV channels, received through digital terrestrial or satellite ways. Its interface is provided as a web-site written in Java. It is also capable of streaming audio and video files. VLMa consists of a daemon (called VLMad) and a web interface (called VLMaw). VLMa is released under the GNU General Public License like
VLC media player.
VLC media player Skin Editor The
VLC Skin Editor is a simple program developed by VideoLAN. The simple interface allows users to create new skins for the
VLC media player without knowledge of the VLC Skins2 XML System. The program lets users change features on the main window, playlist window, and equalizer window. ==Commercial use==