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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
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News & Updates

VLC 2.0.7
2013-06-10

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present the eighth version of "Twoflower", a minor update that improves the overall stability.
Notable changes include fixes for audio decoding, audio encoding, small security issues, regressions, fixes for PowerPC, Mac OS X and new translations.
More info in the release notes.

VLC 2.0.6
2013-04-11

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present the seventh version of "Twoflower", a minor update that improves the overall stability.
Notable changes include support for Matroska v4, improved reliability for ASF, Ogg, ASF and srt support, fixed GPU decoding on Windows on Intel GPU, fixed ALAC and FLAC decoding, and a new compiler for Windows release.
More info in the release notes.

VLC for the new Windows 8 User Experience fundraiser
2012-11-29

Today, some VideoLAN team members launched a fundraiser on Kickstarter to support a port to the new User Experience on Windows 8 (aka "Metro") and Windows RT. Find out more.

VLC fundraiser for Windows 8, RT and Phone ended
2012-12-29

Today, the fundraising campaign for for Windows 8, RT and Phone run by some VideoLAN team members ended. Their goal was successfully reached and they announced to start working on the new ports right away. Find out more.

VLC 2.0.5
2012-12-15

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present the sixth version of "Twoflower", a minor update that improves the overall stability.
Notable changes include improved reliability for MKV file playback, fixed MPEG2 audio and video encoding, pulseaudio synchronization, Mac OS interface, and other fixes. It also resolves potential security issues in HTML subtitle parser, freetype renderer, AIFF demuxer and SWF demuxer.
More info in the release notes.
We would like to remind our users that some VideoLAN team members are trying to raise money for VLC for Windows Metro on Kickstarter.

Development Blogs

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VLC for Android and LGPL

This is just a very short post (almost a bookmark-post) to share that we finished the releasing of the VLC engine on Android to LGPL. This is now live in the release that was done today, named 0.1.2. It mostly includes: the Java code i[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: Follow-up report about the WinRT port

News Hello, Like last post, I've spent too much time working on VLC than writing updates and communicating, and I'm sorry again. We are still working a lot of time, with almost a couple of persons spending most of their time on the Win[...]

Ludovic Fauvet: Rethinking the VLC’s mirrors infrastructure

Around 2005 when we started to gather some statistics about VLC, download numbers were around 150,000 downloads per day. Since then this number has increased significantly to reach more than 1M the good days. In the beginning we used few [...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: New report about the WinRT port

News and Excuses I must start this post by sharing some excuses of not doing enough updates lately. The main reason is that we've been mostly under-water with the current development, that took most of our time. News and report The g[...]

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2012-10-03 10:38 RT @aprilorg: The Unitary Patent back in the European Parliament on October, 11th 2012 http://t.co/llPOKc0i #april

2012-10-03 10:22 @djaquay change country ? :)

2012-10-03 10:22 @MyKey_ a subset of Dash, indeed...