VLC media player

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{{title|VLC Media Player}}
{{Infobox Software
| name = VLC Media Player
| logo =
| screenshot =
| caption = Cross-platform media player
| maintainer = VLC team
| stable_release = 2.2.6 - Umbrella
| preview_release = -
| operating_system = Cross-platform
| use = Media Player
| license = LGPL
| website = http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
}}

=Introduction=
'''VLC''' is a software project, which produces free and open source software for multimedia, released under the GNU General Public License.

== Features ==
* VLC is popular for its ability to play the video content of incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully downloaded. (For example, files still downloading via [[BitTorrent (protocol)|BitTorrent]], [[eMule]], or [[Gnutella]]). It also plays [[m2t]] MPEG Transport Streams (.TS) files while they are still being digitized from an [[HDV]] camera via a [[FireWire]] cable, making it possible to monitor the video as it is being played. This is because it is a packet-based player.
* The player also has the ability to use libcdio to access [[.iso]] files so that the user can play files on a [[disk image]], even if the user's operating system does not have the capability of working directly with .iso images.
* VLC supports all codecs and all file formats supported by [[FFmpeg]]. This means that [[VOB|DVD Video]] and [[MPEG-4]] playback as well as support for [[Ogg]] and [[Matroska]] (MKV) file formats work "out of the box". However, this feature is not unique to VLC, as any player using the FFmpeg libraries, including [[MPlayer]] and [[xine-lib]]-based players, can play those formats without need for external codecs. VLC also supports codecs that are not included in FFmpeg.
* VLC is one of the [[free software]] and [[open source]] DVD players that ignores [[DVD region code#Software DVD players|DVD region coding]], making it a region free player, even on locked RPC-2 firmware.
* VLC media player has some filters that can distort, rotate, split, [[deinterlace]], mirror videos, create display walls, or add a logo overlay. It can also produce video output as [[ASCII art]].
* VLC media player can play [[High-definition video|high definition]] recordings of [[D-VHS]] tapes duplicated to a computer using CapDVHS.exe. This offers another way to archive all D-VHS tapes with the DRM copy freely tag.
* Using a [[FireWire]] connection from cable boxes to computers, VLC can stream live, unencrypted content to a monitor or HDTV.
* VLC media player can display the playing video as the [[Computer wallpaper|desktop wallpaper]], like [[Windows DreamScene]], but this feature is not currently available on [[Linux]].
* VLC media player can do screencasts and record the desktop.
* On Microsoft Windows, VLC also supports the Direct Media Object (DMO) framework and can therefore make use of some third-party [[Dynamic-link library|DLLs]].
* VLC can be installed and run directly from a flash or other external drive.
* VLC can be extended through scripting. It uses the [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] scripting language.

==Screenshots==

Sreenshots are available on VLC [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/screenshots.html here]

==Supported formats==
*[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html Supported formats]

==Supported platforms==

Official Downloads of VLC media player [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/#download here]

*Windows
*Apple Platforms
*GNU/Linux

==External links==

*[http://www.videolan.org/ Official website]
*[http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc-branch/NEWS Chanelog]

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