VideoLAN - VLC media player
About VideoLAN
VideoLAN is a software project, which produces
free and open source
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 0.2.0 release
2008-09-29
The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLMa (VideoLAN Manager) 0.2.0.
Binary packages as well as source tarballs are available for download.
Changes from 0.1 to 0.2.0 include:
- * support of HTTP streaming,
- * ability to choose the encapsulation format
- * notifications of servers' accessibility using mail or IM (MSN and IRC),
- * enhanced configurability.
A more complete changelog since 0.1 is available at http://www.videolan.org/vlma/NEWS.
For more information about VideoLAN Manager, we recommend you visit VLMa website.
VLC media player 0.9.3 and Call for Windows developers
2008-09-26
On the heels of 0.9.2 the VideoLAN team presents version 0.9.3, the first bugfix release of the 0.9 series. We are also putting a call out for new Windows developers for our team.
Help is available, as usual, in many places:
- The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
- The forums
- The mailing lists
- IRC: #videolan on Freenode
We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.
We are putting out a call for NEW Windows developers. At the moment, our Windows-port is sorely missing some much needed love from a true Windows developer. Our team has been without a Windows developer for several months now, which is blocking us from supporting our largest usergroup in the manner we want to. We are therefore looking for developers to help our team in the areas of debugging crashes, Direct X, A/V capturing, ActiveX and Windows integration, so we can hopefully resume supporting our largest group of users in the best possible way. If we are unable to find new developers, new versions of VLC media player for Windows might become less frequent and severely out of sync with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.
So, no donations for work on the Windows-port and no "opportunities"-emails, for Windows we only require: Developers, Developers, Developers !!!!!
VLC Skin Editor 0.7 release
2008-09-21
The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC Skin Editor 0.7.
After more than a year of development finally the first official stable release is there.
The Skin Editor enables designers to create skins for VLC without having them to learn about XML and the internal makeup of skins2. It provides an easy-to-use WYIWYG editing interface giving full control over all of the skin's features.
Binary packages for windows, including an installer can be found at the Skin Editor page. There can also be found a build for all other operating systems for which exist a Java Runtime Environment 6 SE.
We'd like to thank all contributors and testers for having made this release possible.
VLC media player at IBC 2008
2008-09-17
IBC 2008 is the 2nd largest conference and exhibition on Broadcasting technology in the world. Though VLC media player does not have a stand (terribly expensive), it is used on many stands by the attending companies. As every year, several of the VLC media player developers were present on the floor and Derk-Jan Hartman made a photo report showing some of the uses, by companies like: HP, Cisco, Anystream, Fraunhofer, BBC and many smaller companies.
VLC media player 0.9.2 Grishenko release
2008-09-15
The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.2 - Grishenko.
Resulting of 2 years of development, it features many new functionalities, including a new interface for Windows and Linux.
A comprehensive list of new features can be found on our our wiki or by reading the release notes.
Help is available, as usual, in many places:
- The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
- The forums
- The mailing lists
- IRC: #videolan on Freenode
We'd like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.
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VLC media player 0.9.3
- It is a free cross-platform media player
- It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
- It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
Help
For setup instructions, see the documentation section.
If you have a problem that is not covered in the documentation, look at the support page, web forums, the Wiki, the user mailing-lists and other support methods.
Contribute!
VideoLAN welcomes all contributions to the project! You can contribute
time (development, documentation, packaging, tests, user support, ...),
material or even money. See the contribution
page for more information.
Developers can join us by undertaking one of the Mini Projects