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Version: 1.0.5 || Release Date: 2010-01-31 || License: GPL Developer: VideoLAN

For DivX, VCD, DVD, MPEG, AVI, FLV, WAV, WMV, OGG.

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, and OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It also can be used as a server for unicast or multicast streams in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. The most prominent additions to version 0.8.6 are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, and a full-screen.

Required OS: not specified
Tags: video , mediaplayer , mp4 , m4v , movies , mpeg1 , player

49 Opinions

by plm, 2009-12-13

Decent, but lacks multiple video windows.
Therefore I prefer niceplayer now.

by knapster, 2009-09-24

There's a 64bit specific version - just tried it but found it tops out the CPU for the first 10 sec of video before settling to 9% of CPU.

by retro83, 2009-06-30 (score: -2)

Are we supposed to post beta versions here or just stable releases? According to the site the latest version is 9.9.

by enricus, 2009-06-04 (score: -2)

I suggest to change the icons to the ones in macrabbit.com/goodies/
They look way better, at least IMHO.
Hope it makes your eyes healthier :) ,

by ticklebrain, 2009-05-29

need to update download link. Use: http://www.videolan.org/mirror-geo.php?file=vlc/0.9.9a/macosx/vlc-0.9.9a.dmg

by miknos, 2009-05-03 (score: -1)

Tried EVERY Mac OS X player and let me say MOVIST is the best by far.

I recommend you to have MOVIST, VLC and QuickTime (with perian).

by thebomster, 2009-04-27

Best video app out there by far. A nicer UI wouldn't go a miss though.

by drtalk, 2009-01-09 (score: -9) buried [Show comment]

by schaapopjehoofd, 2008-10-06

0.9.2 and 0.9.3 still slow and choppy for me on Intel Mac. Going back to 0.8.6 since the Mac version already had the fullscreen controls builtin (which would be a reason for me to upgrade on Windows).

Nevertheless, great app.