Vlc Player Mac Wikipedia
VLC media player3.0.10 is a multimedia player which plays all media formats on all platforms. Run VLC Media Player. Immediately after installing VLC, you can run it by making sure the 'Run VLC media player' box is checked and clicking Finish. When you want to run VLC in the future, you'll double-click the VLC app icon on your desktop or select it from Start.
| Formation | April 21, 2009; 11 years ago[1] |
|---|---|
| Founded at | Paris, France |
| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Legal status | Association loi de 1901 |
| Purpose | Software development and promotion of free software for multimedia |
| Headquarters | 18, rue Charcot, 75013, Paris, France |
| Coordinates | 48°49′52″N2°22′18″E / 48.8312°N 2.3716°ECoordinates: 48°49′52″N2°22′18″E / 48.8312°N 2.3716°E |
Region | Worldwide |
| Services | Software development |
| English, French[2] | |
President | Jean-Baptiste Kempf |
| Affiliations | Videolabs[3] |
| List of volunteers | |
| Website | www.videolan.org |
VideoLAN is a non-profit organization which develops software for playing video and other media formats. It originally developed two programs for media streaming, VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN Server (VLS), but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated into VLC, with the result renamed VLC media player.
The VideoLAN project began as a student endeavor at École Centrale Paris (France), but after releasing the software under the free software/open sourceGNU General Public License, the project is now multinational with a development team spanning 40 nations.[4] The project has been completely separated from École Centrale Paris since 2009 when it was constituted as a non-profit organization.[5][1]
The current President of the VideoLAN non-profit organization is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, who is also one of the project's developers.[6]
Projects[edit]
VLC[edit]
VLC (standing for VideoLAN Client) is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streamingprotocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. It is one of the most platform-independent players available, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Linux, BeOS, BSD, Solaris, Chrome OS, and is widely used with over 2.1 billion downloads as of September 2017.[7]
VLMC[edit]
VLMC (standing for VideoLAN Movie Creator) is a cross-platform, non-linear, video editing software application based on the VLC Media Player. The software is still in early development.The latest version is 0.2.0 (released 2014-10-30), released under the GPLv2 license.
VLS[edit]
The VLS (standing for VideoLAN Server) project was originally intended to be used as a server for streaming videos. But now, it has been merged with the VLC project and use of VLS is not encouraged.
Codecs[edit]
The VideoLAN project also hosts several audio/video decoding and decryptionlibraries, such as libdvdcss which allows the content of CSS protected DVDs to be unscrambled, x264 which can encode H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video, x265 which can encode HEVC video, x262 which can encode MPEG-2 video, dav1d which can decode AV1 video, libdca which can decode DTS audio, and the gitrepository of the multimedia frameworkFFmpeg.
VLMa[edit]
A new project has been developed, called VLMa (standing for VideoLAN Manager).VLMa is an application to manage broadcasts of TV channels, received through digital terrestrial or satellite ways. Its interface is provided as a web-site written in Java. It is also capable of streaming audio and video files. VLMa consists of a daemon (called VLMad) and a web interface (called VLMaw). VLMa is released under the GNU General Public License like VLC media player.
VLC media player Skin Editor[edit]
[4]The VLC Skin Editor is a simple program developed by VideoLAN. The simple interface allows users to create new skins for the VLC media player without knowledge of the VLC Skins2 XML System. The program lets users change features on the main window, playlist window, and equalizer window. The current version is 2.0.8 and can be downloaded on the videolan.org website.
Commercial use[edit]
In May 2008, Neuros Technology and Texas Instruments began work on a port of VideoLAN to their next generation open set-top box.[8]
VLC is currently used in products through the use of libVLC and also as raw or customized VLC for Android versions on devices.Some features have been publicly merged, such as 360° support.[9]
Opposition to software-bundling[edit]
VideoLAN developers have expressed dismay at how users searching for their products see search advertising from websites that use unwanted software bundling to modify official download files with wrappers that include unwanted programs. VideoLAN doesn't have the money to sue the many companies abusing their trademarks.[10][11][12][13][14]
See also[edit]
- Google Video — used VideoLAN technology in its media player web browserplugin.[15]
References[edit]
- ^ ab'VIDEOLAN'. opencorporates.com. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
- ^'Legal'. videolan.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
- ^'Our partners'. https://videolan.org.External link in
|website=(help) - ^ abVideoLAN team contact list
- ^'Free Software and Open Source video streaming solution for every OS!'. videolan.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
Since 2009, the project is completely separated from École Centrale Paris, and is driven by an autonomous non-profit organization.
- ^'VLC player rocks, and Jean-Baptiste Kempf talks about it!'. Unixmen. 2012-05-14. Retrieved 2015-09-22.
- ^'Download Statistics'. VideoLAN Project. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
- ^VLC Port to Neuros LinuxArchived May 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^'VLC Media Player Videos 360°'. 29 Nov 2016.
- ^'These companies that mislead our users'. 7 Jul 2011.
- ^'VLC media player suffering in face of crapware and uncaring Google'. Geek.com. 7 Jul 2011.
- ^'VideoLAN Calls Out for Help to Protect Users from VLC Scams'. 16 Jul 2011.
- ^'Adware in new installer'. The VideoLAN forums.
- ^'Yes, Every Freeware Download Site is Serving Crapware (Here's the Proof)'. HowToGeek.com. 21 Jan 2015.
Sadly, even on Google all the top results for most open source and freeware are just ads for really terrible sites that are bundling crapware, adware, and malware on top of the installer. Most geeks will know that they shouldn’t click on the ads, but obviously enough people are clicking those ads for them to be able to afford to pay the high per-click prices for Google AdWords.
- ^Open Source Patches and Mirrored Packages - Google Code
External links[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to VideoLAN. |
- Official website
VLC 3 running on Linux and GNOME Shell, playing Spring, a short film by the Blender Foundation | |
| Developer(s) | VideoLAN |
|---|---|
| Initial release | February 1, 2001; 19 years ago[1] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Core: C GUI: C++ (with Qt), Objective-C (with Cocoa), Swift, Java Bundled Extensions: Lua[2] |
| Operating system | Windows, Windows Phone, macOS, Linux, Android, Chrome OS, iOS, iPadOS, Apple TV, Tizen, watchOS, Xbox One |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64, MIPS, PowerPC |
| Available in | 48 languages[3] |
| Type | Media player |
| License | GPL-2.0 with some libraries under LGPL-2.1[4][5] |
| Website | videolan.org/vlc |
VLC media player (also known as VLC or VideoLAN Client) is a free softwaremedia player by the VideoLAN project.
It is a highly portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer that supports many kinds of audio and video. VLC can repair and play corrupt files, damaged or unfinished.
It is one of the most platform-independent players, available for BeOS, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Windows CE, and has over 50 million downloads for version 0.8.6.
VLC uses a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries. Many of its codecs are provided by the libavcodec codec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. VLC gained honor as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD library.
History[change | change source]
VLC was initially the client for the VideoLAN project, and it was originally made by students at the École Centrale de Paris, and was released under the GPL license on the 1 February2001. It now has supporters and contributors worldwide.
The icon of VLC is a traffic cones collected by Ecole Centrale's Networking Students' Association.
Design principles[change | change source]
VLC has a very flexible design, which makes it easier to include modules for new file formats, codecs or streaming methods. There are more than 300 modules in VLC. VLC also supports highly personalizable skins through the skins2 interface, Winamp 2 and XMMS skins and can play high definition recordings of D-VHS tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe
Related pages[change | change source]
Other websites[change | change source]
Videolan Vlc Media Player Mac
Vlc Player Download
- ↑'15 years of VLC and VideoLAN'. Jean-Baptiste Kempf. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ↑https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154045/
- ↑'VideoLAN internationalization'. VideoLAN. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ↑'VLC engine relicensed to LGPL'. VideoLAN. December 21, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ↑'VLC reaches 2.1.2'. VideoLAN. December 10, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ↑'VLC media player, Index of /testing/'. Retrieved February 9, 2018.