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multimedia player and streamer

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP.

VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional plugins: * vlc-plugin-access-extra * vlc-plugin-fluidsynth * vlc-plugin-jack * vlc-plugin-notify * vlc-plugin-samba * vlc-plugin-skins2 * vlc-plugin-svg * vlc-plugin-video-splitter * vlc-plugin-visualization

Latest reviews

Raj_Mukhopadhyay 3 weeks ago

Quite impressive cross-platform software that seamlessly allows interconversion of various audio and video formats.

DrivenNuts 3 weeks ago

A/O 02/26/2025 this is now badly broken. Used and working great for several years. 1) noticed all my settings changed, reset & tried to watch a video, studdering playback, no full screen, jumpy video / audio OK. Tried to check with another video, all settings gone again, upper tool bar GONE, Not response no way to exit/close program but with Terminal. Shut it down, restarted, same story, settings, controls gone after 1 badly rendered video, again. My system and all else is working normaly. I've uninstalled and reinstalled but issues remain. Unusable so Uninstalled waiting for fix.

geekomatic 1 month ago

According to the VLC website the curent version is 3.0.20, but when I install it for Linux Mint, via the webpage they direct me to, it remains v3.0.16. I am missing the GOOM audio visualisation. Is this a VLC bug or a Mint bug???

mandak 1 month ago

As of yesterday at Linux Mint 22.1 VLC has stopped working. It breaks down when starting. The problem was in the GPU driver.

HassanDavid 2 months ago

it's great to watch videos i use it all day to me that's the only thing i use it for.

amanullahbehlim1 2 months ago

Bro, its best media player out there. I dont know about U, but a media player cant get better than this. VLC tops here. the only opensource sigma media player. most liked thing is i can do 200% sound. wow. just perfect.

littlecog 2 months ago

VLC itself is great but accelerated video decoding currently broken as packaged, on Mint 22: Github issue at https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl/issues/74. If you have old Intel hardware, try the Flatpak instead of this. (That works for me with Intel UHD Graphics 620, from 2017.)

Quanty 2 months ago

Very good, runs without problems, Should be the standard player in Mint.

suryaprakash 5 months ago

i'm using vlc last 7 years linux and other platforme one of the best recomendation for play video and also stream.lot's of intresting plugins is there

computerfan123 5 months ago

cool, flatpak is for the lazy noobs