VLC media player 3.0.23 – Free HD Video Player Software

VLC media player is a free, open-source, cross-platform solution built to handle almost any multimedia file with ease. It supports Blu-ray, DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and a wide range of streaming protocols, giving users a smooth and unrestricted media playback experience.

VLC is simple, powerful, and fast, playing files, discs, devices, webcams, and live streams without extra setup. It works as a dependable media converter and streamer, supporting most codecs by default and eliminating the need for external codec packs.

The player operates across multiple platforms and supports widely used audio and video formats, including MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3, and WMA, delivering efficient everyday playback.

VLC includes hardware-accelerated decoding on many systems, uses zero-copy GPU processing for improved performance, and switches to software decoding when needed to maintain smooth and reliable playback.

The VLC project focuses on multimedia streaming for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestrial television, and live video delivered through high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 networks in unicast or multicast environments.

VLC includes a cross-platform player that can read network streams or display local video on computers running GNU/Linux, BSD, Windows, macOS, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, and Familiar Linux.

VLC media player Features:

• Rewrite the playlist (tree structure, input preparsing …)
• Preferences enhancements
• XML parsers
• Client-side SSL/TLS support
• Massive Matroska enhancements
• Support for SOCKS proxy
• Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
• Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
• TiVo demuxer
• Samba (Windows shares) access module
• Dirac decoder and encoder
• PNG decoder/encoder
• Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
• Services discovery modules (brand new SAP module, HAL discovery, DAAP (iTunes shares), Shoutcast)
• Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
• Video snapshot support (PNG or JPG)
• Image file video output (PNG)
• Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
• Pocket PC port
• Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin

Plays Video Formats

MPEG-1/2, DivX (1/2/3/4/5/6), MPEG-4 ASP, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.261, H.263 / H.263i, H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC, Cinepak, Theora, Dirac / VC-2, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2, WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1, Sorenson 1/3, DV, On2 VP3/VP5/VP6, Indeo Video v3 (IV32), Real Video (1/2/3/4).

Plays Audio Formats

MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3 – MPEG Layer 3, AAC – MPEG-4 part3, Vorbis, AC3 – A/52, E-AC-3, MLP / TrueHD>3, DTS, WMA 1/2, WMA 3, FLAC, ALAC, Speex, Musepack / MPC, ATRAC 3, Wavpack, Mod, TrueAudio, APE, Real Audio, Alaw/µlaw, AMR (3GPP), MIDI, LPCM, ADPCM, QCELP, DV Audio, QDM2/QDMC, MACE.

Plays Subtitles:

DVD, Text files (MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Closed captions, Vobsub, Universal Subtitle Format (USF), SVCD / CVD, DVB, OGM, CMML, Kate. ID3 tags, APEv2, Vorbis comment.