Application: VLC media player
multimedia player and streamer
VLC is the VideoLAN project's highly portable media player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimedia streams from various network sources.
VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP.
VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional audio plugins (vlc-plugin-esd, vlc-plugin-sdl, vlc-plugin-arts, vlc-plugin-pulse) or video plugins (vlc-plugin-sdl, vlc-plugin-ggi, vlc-plugin-glide, vlc-plugin-svgalib). There is also a web browser plugin in the mozilla-plugin-vlc package.
8 reviews for VLC media player
17th of July 2009 at 11:00:58
VLC is a great media player. It plays virtually anything without the need to install external dependency.
Cherry on the cake, it is written with Qt so it is well integrated in GNOME and KDE.
18th of July 2009 at 01:44:42
With smplayer, VLC is the best video player, all systems included. It works on Mac OS X and Windows too, so you probably already know how to use it.
25th of August 2009 at 04:34:34
best video player!
1st of September 2009 at 12:16:03
We all think VLC is a great player, but it's bug on ubuntu just sucks. The video output always opens on a separate window, this makes the program loose it's usability appealing.
1st of September 2009 at 03:15:17
Don't look any further. Love the convert/save, you can get a lot of mp3 files quickly.
4th of February 2010 at 02:42:51
i am trying to install vlc media player, but which is asking me open with
but i don't know to exact file to open
24th of November 2009 at 05:50:35
VLC is very good....visit my software collection on http://software.gamblis.com
8th of March 2010 at 02:53:57
Best video player available for Linux or any OS in general...
Not completely newbie friendly but in no way a complicated application.
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