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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.

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News & Updates

2022-04-19

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.17 release of VLC, which adds support for a few formats, improves adaptive streaming support, fixes some crashes and updates many third party libraries. More details on the release page.

2022-03-21

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding a new video playback interface, support for NFS and SFTP network shares and major improvements to the media handling especially for audio. See the press release.

2022-03-06

libbluray and related libraries, libaacs and libbdplus, have new releases, focused on maintenance, minor improvements, and notably new OSes and new java versions compatibility. See libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus pages.

2021-12-15

Since its very early days in 1996, VideoLAN software is written in programming languages of the C family (mostly plain C with additions in C++ and Objective-C) with the notable exception of its port to Android, which was started in Java and recently transitioned to Kotlin. VLC does not use the log4j library on any platform and is therefore unaffected by any related security implications.

2021-09-20

We are pleased to release version 3.4.0 of the VLC version for the Android platforms.
Still based on libVLC 3, it revamps the Audio Player and the Auto support, it adds bookmarks in each media, simplifies the permissions and improves video grouping. See our Android page.

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Development Blogs

Rémi Denis-Courmont: VLC plug-in for PipeWire

The first release of the VLC PipeWire plug-in is now available for testing, providing a native PipeWire audio output.[...]

Rémi Denis-Courmont: VLC plug-in for YT-DLP

Version 3 of the VLC YTDL plug-in is now available. This switches to YT-DLP as backend and brings a few minor fixes.[...]

Felix Paul Kühne: VLC media player for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS version 3.3

After a long time, I have exciting things to share! VLC media player for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Apple TV is receiving a major update on the App Store today. As always, it is completely free of charge in all countries and the source[...]

Rémi Denis-Courmont: Running VLC on RISC-V

VLC builds on RISC-V already. Next step would be testing in an emulator or simulator...[...]

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