VLC is a free media player that allows the player to watch movies and listen to music in various formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, DVD, MP3, OGG, etc.).

The main strength of the program is not to play the files on the hard drive or CD but most of all broadcast media remotely (via the Internet or LAN connection) via different protocols for streaming. Thanks to VLC media player is one of the best solutions for viewing, eg. Internet television broadcast in various standards. The player supports a variety of formats to display subtitles - functionality is not yet finally polished.

VLC can decode audio from Blu-ray path Linear PCM or Dolby Digital Plus. Moreover, improved decoders Real Video (versions 3.0 and 4.0), and WMA. There is also the ability to support formats Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in MKV containers. VLC also has support for digital TV tuner (DVB-S). Added experimental support for Blu-ray and AVCHD material.

The new version also introduces amendments to decode soundtracks encoded with 5.1 and 7.1 systems and support for RealMedia files. Users of Linux must pay attention to the removal from the project plugins Esound servers and aRts sound, as well as surround-added support for the PulseAudio server. Improved integration with GTK and Qt libraries.


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