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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.

With VLC, there is no need to continually update many different codec packs. VLC comes with nearly every codec built in!

And whats more, VLC can play back your files, even if the media is damaged! Missing or broken pieces wont stop VLC. All the video and audio information that remains can be played.

Here are some key features of "VLC Media Player":

· 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

Security:
· Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587) and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).

Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
· Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
· Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32

Demuxers/Meta Readers:
· Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma

Muxers/Output:
· Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players

Extensions:
· Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues

Qt Interface:
· Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
· Miscellaneous

Win32 port:
· Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash

Translations:
· Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian