VLC media player 0.8.5
VLC is a free cross-platform media player.
- It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
- It is available for almost every OS
- It needs little CPU power
Streaming solution
VLC can also be used as a streaming server
- VLC can use a large number of input devices
- It features extended streaming features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
Latest news
25 May 2006: Website redesign contest
6 May 2006: Release: VLC media player 0.8.5
1 April 2006: Apple-VideoLAN partnership announced, Mac VLC to be Intel only (April fool's)
9 March 2006: VideoLAN website gets a new home
25-26 Feb 2006: VideoLAN at FOSDEM
Project
VideoLAN produces free
software for video, released under the GNU General Public
License.
It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide
project with developers from 20 countries.
Help
For setup instructions, see the documentation section.
If you have a problem that is not
covered in the documentation, look at the support section to know about the web forums, 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.