VLC Media Player (formerly VideoLAN Client) is an open source and highly portable multimedia player application that integrates support for many audio and video formats, as well as DVDs, VCDs, and several streaming protocols. In addition to those, VLC reads Audio-CDs, DVB-S/C/T streams, MPEG encoding cards, and video acquisition from a supported V4L (Video4Linux) device.

Simple, fast and powerful

• Plays everything – Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
• Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed – MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3…
• Runs on all platforms – Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, iOS, Android …
• Completely Free – no spyware, no ads and no user tracking.

A video streaming app

The application can be used as a server to stream video in UDP/RTP Unicast or Multicast on IPv4 and IPv6 high-bandwidth networks. It also supports the HTTP, FTP and MMS protocols. Users will be able to use different video filters on movies, including deinterlace, crop, image wall, brightness, saturation, contrast, rotate, upside down, and logo overlay.

What’s new in VLC 2.2.4

• Decoder:
• Fix crash in G.711 wav files
• Fix mp3 crash in libmad
• Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)

• Qt:
• Fix resizing issues

• Win32:
• Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output

• Misc:
• Build fixes for Hurd
• Translations updated:
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• German
• French
• Italian
• Marathi
• Norwegian Bokmål
• Norwegian Nynorsk
• Portuguese
• Slovak
• Spanish (Mexico)
• Swedish,
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese