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VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS and iPadOS.
Common logo for all VideoLAN projects. 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 following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs. For the purpose of this comparison, video players are defined as any media player which can play video , even if it can also play audio files.
Adobe Flash Player (web browser plug-in) Windows, OS X, ChromeOS, Linux The most widely adopted RTMP client, which supports playback of audio and video streamed from RTMP servers. Gnash (web browser plug-in/media player) Windows, Linux An open source replacement for the Flash Player, intends to support RTMP streaming for Linux. [7] VLC media player
IINA (/ ˈ iː n ə /) [3] is a free and open-source media player software based on mpv and written in Swift for macOS. [4] It is released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). References
VLC media player, a free, open-source and cross-platform media player that has a built-in UPnP-client that lets the user access the contents listed from an UPnP Media server. Though a very complete media player in itself, it does not provide any UPnP Control Point capabilities, nor can the player be controlled as a UPnP compliant Media Renderer.
libdvdcss (or libdvdcss2 in some repositories) is a free and open-source software library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS). libdvdcss is part of the VideoLAN project and is used by VLC media player and other DVD player software packages, such as Ogle, xine-based players, and MPlayer.
Presently, the open-source VLC media player plays AVCHD video files and a wide variety of additional formats, and is freely available for most modern operating systems (including Linux, macOS, MS Windows) and some mobile platforms. Since Mountain Lion, macOS does support native AVCHD playback via the default media player, QuickTime. [25]