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By SoftCns Editor: 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 "VLC media player (formerly 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