VLC Media Player

A multi-platform multimedia player that can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG, and DivX files VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player that supports various audio and video formats (MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, 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.

The stream can be MPEG 2 TS in UDP or HTTP packets unicasted or multicasted on an IPv4 or IPv6 network.

Here are some key features of "VideoLAN Client":
Input

Input media

UDP/RTP Unicast

UDP/RTP Multicast

HTTP / FTP

MMS

File

DVD 1

VCD

SVCD 2

Audio CD (without DTS)

DVB (Satellite, Digital TV, Cable TV)

MPEG encoder 3

Video acquisition Direct Show

Input formats

MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)

ID3 tags

AVI

ASF / WMV / WMA

MP4 / MOV / 3GP

OGG / OGM / Annodex

Matroska (MKV)

Real

WAV (incuding DTS)

Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52

Raw DV

FLAC

FLV (Flash)

Video

Decoders

MPEG-1/2

DIVX (1/2/3)

MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4

H.264

Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)

DV

Cinepak

Theora (alpha 3)

H.263 / H.263i

MJPEG (A/B)

WMV 1/2

WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 4, 5

Indeo Video v3 (IV32)

Subtitles

DVD 6

SVCD / CVD

DVB

OGM

Matroska

Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer)

Vobsub

Filters

Deinterlace

Cropping

Image wall

Image adjust

Rotate/Mirror

Logo overlay

Magnification

Image distortion

Bluescreen

RSS/Atom feeds

Outputs

Native DirectX, GDI

SDL

ASCII Art

Audio

Decoders

MPEG Layer 1/2

MP3

AC3 - A/52

DTS

LPCM

AAC

Vorbis

WMA 1/2

WMA 3 7

ADPCM

DV Audio

FLAC

QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)

MACE

Real Audio 8

Speex

Filters

Visualization effects

Equalizer

Outputs

Native DirectX WaveOut

S/PDIF DirectX WaveOut

Multi-channel DirectX WaveOut

SDL

Streaming

Interfaces and control

Default WxWidgets

Qt 4

Skins

Web

Telnet

Command line

Miscellaneous

SAP/SDP announces

Bonjour protocol

Mozilla/Firefox plugin

ActiveX plugin

SVCD Menus

Localization

CD-Text 10

CDDB CD info 11

IPv6

IGMPv3 Win XP

CPU acceleration 13

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