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VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
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News & Updates

VLC 2.0.4
2012-10-18

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present the fifth version of "Twoflower", a major update that fixes a lot of regressions, issues and security issues in this branch.
It introduces Opus support, improves Youtube, Vimeo streams and Blu-Ray dics support. It also fixes many issues in playback, notably on Ogg and MKV playback and audio device selections and a hundred of other bugs.
More info in the release notes.

World IPv6 Launch
2012-06-04

The VideoLAN organization is taking part in the World IPv6 launch on June 6. All services including the website, the forums, the bugtracker and the git server are now accessible via IPv6.

Updated 2.0.3 builds for Mac OS X
2012-08-01

A small number of users on specific setups experienced audio issues with the latest version of VLC media player for Mac OS X. If you are affected, please download VLC again and replace the existing installation. If you're not, there is nothing to do.

VideoLAN at FISL
2012-07-19

Next week, we will give two talks about VideoLAN and VLC media player at the 13° Fórum Internacional Software Livre in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This is the first time VideoLAN members attend a conference in South America. We are looking forward to it and hope to see you around.

VLC 2.0.3
2012-07-19

VideoLAN and the VLC development are proud to present a minor update adding support for OS X Mountain Lion as well as improving VLC's overall stability on OS X. Additionally, this version includes updates for 18 translations and adds support for Uzbek and Marathi. For MS Windows, you can update manually if you need the translation updates.

Development Blogs

Felix Paul Kühne: VLC 2.0.4

We released VLC 2.0.4 for all platforms today. It includes various fixes and improvements for the Mac OS X port as well as all the other desktop platforms. Let's start with the specific improvements for the Mac: Improved audio output beh[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VLC media player 2.0.4 and VLC for Android 0.0.6

VLC 2.0.4 So, yet another release for VLC is around the corner. Why should you care? Well, first, it shows that the VLC project is still quite alive and that we care about our users, even if we are focusing on 2.1.0. Then, a bit of st[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: VideoLAN on HTTPS

HTTPS, Cacert For quite a bit of time, VideoLAN had its websites available on HTTPS. This is important for forums, wiki and other places were you had to log-in to avoid passwords in clear. Unfortunately, our certificate was a Cacert ce[...]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf: News

Phœnix (Long time no see) It has been more than 7 months that I have not blogged around VLC and VideoLAN. Why? To be honest, I have been quite busy, both professionally and personally, for the best and the worst. But the truth is that, [...]

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2012-10-03 01:45 @__s_a_m_u_e_l it should be ok :)

2012-10-03 10:38 RT @aprilorg: The Unitary Patent back in the European Parliament on October, 11th 2012 http://t.co/llPOKc0i #april

2012-10-03 10:22 @djaquay change country ? :)

2012-10-03 10:22 @MyKey_ a subset of Dash, indeed...