VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project.
VLC media player supports many audio and video compression methods and file formats, including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols. It is able to stream media over computer networks and to transcode multimedia files.[8]
The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers and its own protocols implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and OS X by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library.
The VideoLan project was originally started as an academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client" when VLC was a client of the VideoLAN project. But since VLC is no longer merely a client, that initialism no longer applies.[9][10]
It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos across a campus network. Originally developed by students at the École Centrale Paris, it is now developed by contributors worldwide and is coordinated by VideoLAN, a non-profit organization.
Rewritten from scratch in 1998, it was released under GNU General Public License on 1 February 2001, with authorization from the headmaster of the École Centrale Paris. The functionality of the server program, VideoLan Server (VLS), has mostly been subsumed into VLC and has been deprecated.[11] The project name has been changed to VLC media player because there is no longer a client/server infrastructure.
The cone icon used in VLC is a reference to the traffic cones collected by École Centrale's Networking Students' Association.[12] The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon[13] to a higher resolution CGI-rendered version in 2006, illustrated by Richard Øiestad.[14]
After 13 years of development, version 1.0.0 of VLC media player was released on July 7, 2009.[15] Version 2.0.0 of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012.[7][16]
In 2011 and 2012, large parts of VLC were relicensed to the GNU Lesser General Public License.[17][18]
VLC is first in the sourceforge.net overall download count[19] and has been downloaded more than 1.3 billion times.[20]
VLC is now available for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch on Apple's App Store. It was present in the past, was pulled due to a licensing conflict between the GPL and the iTunes Store agreement,[21] but was then resubmitted under the Mozilla Public License.[22] Work began on VLC for Android in 2010 and a beta version for Android devices is now available on the Google Play store.[23][24] A version for the Windows Store arrived on March 13, 2014. Support for Windows RT, Windows Phone, and possibly the Xbox One are also in development.[25]
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