An open source media player that's almost infinitely customizable and expandable, and can handle any video or audio file you can throw at it. VLC is the ultimate media player, ported to the Windows Universal Platform. This VLC does not feature all the features of the classic VLC!
VLC running under (playing ) Initial release February 1, 2001; 17 years ago ( 2001-02-01) Windows, Linux, & macOS 3.0.3 / 30 May 2018; 47 days ago ( 2018-05-30) Android 3.0.4 / 9 March 2018; 4 months ago ( 2018-03-09) Chrome OS 1.7.3 / 23 December 2015; 2 years ago ( 2015-12-23) iOS 3.0.3 / 14 March 2018; 4 months ago ( 2018-03-14) Apple TV 3.0.1 / 15 February 2018; 4 months ago ( 2018-02-15) Windows () 3.0.0 / 9 February 2018; 5 months ago ( 2018-02-09) Windows Phone 3.0.0 / 9 February 2018; 5 months ago ( 2018-02-09). • Written in Core: GUI: (with ), (with ),,,,,,,,,,,,, Available in 48 languages v2.1+ Website VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a,, and developed by the project. VLC is available for desktop and, such as,,, and. VLC is also available on such as Apple's, and. VLC supports many audio and video methods and, including, and streaming. It is able to stream media over and to multimedia files. The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins.
The library from the project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly uses its own and demuxers. It also has its own protocol implementations.
It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on and by using the DVD decryption library. Keyboard map (basic) The default is based on on, for macOS, and for Linux and Windows, but all give a similar standard interface. The old default was based on on Linux and Windows. VLC supports highly customizable through the skins2 interface, and also supports 2 and skins. Skins are not supported in the macOS version. VLC has, remote control, and interfaces.