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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
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News & Updates

2014-09-05

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new release for Android. This focuses on fixing crashes, better decoding and update of translations.
More info in the release notes and download page.

2014-07-26

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new minor version of the VLC 2.1.x branch.
This fixes a few bugs and security issues in third-party libraries, like GnuTLS and libpng.
More info on our release page

2014-07-13

The 3 VideoLAN Blu-Ray libraries have been released: libbluray 0.6.0, libaacs 0.7.1 and libbdplus 0.1.1 library.
Those releases notably add correct support for BD-J, the Java interactivity layer of Blu-Ray Discs.

2014-07-06

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new release for Android today. It improves a lot DVD menus and navigation, adds compatibility with Android L, fixes a few UI crashes and updates the translations.
More info in the release notes.

2014-06-13

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new release for Android today. It adds support for DVD menus, a new VLC icon, tutorials and numerous fixes for crashes.
More info in the release notes.

Development Blogs

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Second VLC for WinRT release

A new release Now, you should see a new release of VLC for WinRT on the Windows Store: 0.1.0. This is the second major release of this application. While still beta, it should be way more stable than the previous one. The major changes[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss releases

Dvdread and Dvdnav libdvdread and libdvdnav have had a history of poor maintenance and numerous forks (and merges), with numerous lapse of time without active maintainers. As a result, those libraries were in a sorry state, crashing a lo[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VLC 2.1.5

Release of 2.1.5 Today, we did a small release of the stable version of VLC media player: 2.1.5. It is just a maintenance release, before VLC 2.2.0 is ready. The highlights are: Blu-Ray subtitles (PGS) in MKV are correctly sized, Som[...]

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2012-10-03 01:45 @__s_a_m_u_e_l it should be ok :)

2012-10-03 10:38 RT @aprilorg: The Unitary Patent back in the European Parliament on October, 11th 2012 http://t.co/llPOKc0i #april

2012-10-03 10:22 @djaquay change country ? :)

2012-10-03 10:22 @MyKey_ a subset of Dash, indeed...