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VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project.
VLC 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. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but since VLC is no longer simply a client, that initialism no longer applies.
It is a cross-platform media player, with versions for Microsoft
Windows, Mac OS X, GNU, Linux, BeOS, BSD, Solaris, iOS and eComStation.
The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free
decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for
finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC’s codecs are
provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses
mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the
first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the
libdvdcss DVD decryption library.
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