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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.
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.
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.
Free and open-source software portal; libavcodec is a free and open-source [4] library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data. [5]libavcodec is an integral part of many open-source multimedia applications and frameworks.
High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding (AVC, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10).
The quality the codec can achieve is heavily based on the compression format the codec uses. A codec is not a format, and there may be multiple codecs that implement the same compression specification – for example, MPEG-1 codecs typically do not achieve quality/size ratio comparable to codecs that implement the more modern H.264 specification.
OpenVVC [1] an VVC /H.266 Real Time-Decoder for Mac OS, Windows, Linux and Android and special Version of FFmpeg, [2] which was used for Ateme Satellite Broadcast Test. [3] [4] x265 – An encoder based on the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC/H.265) standard. Xvid – MPEG-4 Part 2 codec, compatible with DivX
Expired patents [64] [65] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No MPEG-2 Video: Lossy: 1996-05 Expired patents Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No MPEG-4 Visual: Lossy: 1999-12 Patent encumbered [66] Yes Yes First edition Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Microsoft MPEG4 V2: Lossy: 2003 Patent encumbered, proprietary Yes Not standard Not standard Yes Yes No No No VC-1 ...