VideoLAN - VLC media player

About VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.
Learn more about the VideoLAN project.

Our main product is the cross-platform VLC media player.

About VLC media player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

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VLMa release

2008-05-13

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VideoLAN Manager 0.1.
VideoLAN Manager (VLMa) is a Java application which aims to provide an easy way to manage several servers running VLC to stream over a multicast network.
More information at http://www.videolan.org/vlma.

Google Summer of Code 2008 (2)

2008-04-21

The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google's website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren't chosen ... and start coding if you were!

VLC media player 0.8.6f release

2008-04-02

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f.
This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec.
This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.
More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes.

Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-20

As some of you might have noticed, VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organisation for Google's 2008 edition of Summer of Code. Official student applications will be begin on the 24th and will last until the 31th. Students can apply for VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions.
Update: The application deadline has been extended to the 7th of April by the Google folks.

VLC media player 0.8.6e, VideoLAN Security 0801 and 0802

2008-02-27

This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer.
Technical details are available in our advisories: SA-0801 and SA-0802.
The usual collection of assorted changes and improvements can be found here.
This release fully supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 once again.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

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