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We are pleased to announce dav2d, a small, fast and portable decoder for the new AV2 codec, the successor to AV1 and the latest royalty-free video codec from the Alliance for Open Media. dav2d is the continuation of the work we started with dav1d, our AV1 decoder, and is developed by members of the VideoLAN community under the same BSD-style license.

This first version is a feature-complete AVM v15 decoder, supporting 8-bit and 10-bit decoding, with optimizations for x86 (AVX2), ARM (AArch64 NEON) and RISC-V. This is still early work, and our focus remains on correctness, conformance, optimization and platform support.

We are pleased to release version 3.7.0 of the VLC version for the Android platform. It comes with a completely new equalizer and an improved settings backup. See our Android page.

This weekend, VideoLAN is present at FOSDEM in Bruxelles, Belgium with a booth at the K building on Level 1. Throw balls, win rare prices and see our latest work on VLC including our AI based live subtitles generator!

Alongside the 3.0.23 release for desktop, VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing a larger update for Apple’s mobile platforms to include the latest improvements of VLC’s 3.0 branch plus important bug fixes and amendments for the 26 versions of the OS. Previously, we added pCloud as a European choice for cloud storage allowing direct streaming and downloads within the app.

VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing the 3.0.23 release of VLC today, which is the 24th update to VLC’s 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, adds a dark mode option on Windows and Linux, support for Windows ARM64 and improves support for Windows XP SP3. This is the largest bug fix release ever with a large number of stability and security improvements to demuxers (reported by rub.de, oss-fuzz and others) and updates to most third party libraries. Additional details on the release page. The security impact of this release is detailed here. The major maintenance effort of this release to strengthen VLC’s overall stability as well as the compatibility with old releases of Windows and macOS was made possible by a generous sponsorship of the Sovereign Tech Fund by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation.

We are pleased to release versions 1.6 of biTStream, 3.5 of DVBlast and 2.4 of multicat. DVBlast and multicat had major improvements and new features.

New releases of libdvdread, libdvdnav and libdvdcss have been published today. The biggest features of those releases (libdvdread/nav 7 and libdvdcss 1.5) are related to DVD-Audio support, including DRM decryption.

We are pleased to release version 3.6.0 of the VLC version for the Android platform. It comes with the new Remote Access feature, a parental control and a lot of fixes. See our Android page.

VideoLAN and the VLC team are publishing the 3.0.21 release of VLC today, which is the 22nd update to VLC’s 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, adds Super Resolution and VQ Enhancement filtering with AMD GPUs, NVIDIA TrueHDR to generate a HDR representation from SDR sources with NVIDIA GPUs and improves playback of numerous formats including improved subtitles rendering notably on macOS with Asian languages. Additional details on the release page. This release also fixes a security issue, which is detailed here.

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding playback history, A to B playback, Siri integration, support for external subtitles and audio tracks, a way to favorite folders on local network servers, improved CarPlay integration and many small improvements.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.20 release of VLC, which is a medium update to VLC’s 3.0 branch: it updates codecs, fixes a FLAC quality issue and improves playback of numerous formats including improved subtitles rendering. It also fixes a freeze when using frame-by-frame actions. On macOS, audio layout problems are resolved. Finally, we update the user interface translations and add support for more. Additional details on the release page. This release also fixes two security issues, which are detailed here and there.

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding a new audio playback interface, CarPlay integration, various improvements to the local media library and iterations to existing features such as WiFi Sharing. Notably, we also added maintenance improvements to the port to tvOS including support for the Apple Remote’s single click mode. See the press release for details.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.18 release of VLC, which adds support for a few formats, improves adaptive streaming support, fixes some crashes and updates many third party libraries. More details on the release page. This release also fixes multiple security issues, which are detailed here.

VideoLAN is a de-facto pacifist organization and cares about cross-countries cooperations, and believes in the power of knowledge and sharing. War goes against those ideals. As a response Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we decided to financially support the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and their work on aiding and protecting forcibly displaced people and communities, in the places where they are necessary. See our press statement.

VideoLAN is proud to release the new major version of VLC for Android. It comes with new widgets, network media indexation, a better tablet and foldable support, design improvements in the audio screen, improved accessibility and performance improvements.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.17 release of VLC, which adds support for a few formats, improves adaptive streaming support, fixes some crashes and updates many third party libraries. More details on the release page.

We are happy to announce a major update of VLC for iOS, iPadOS and tvOS adding a new video playback interface, support for NFS and SFTP network shares and major improvements to the media handling especially for audio. See the press release.

libbluray and related libraries, libaacs and libbdplus, have new releases, focused on maintenance, minor improvements, and notably new OSes and new java versions compatibility. See libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus pages.

Since its very early days in 1996, VideoLAN software is written in programming languages of the C family (mostly plain C with additions in C++ and Objective-C) with the notable exception of its port to Android, which was started in Java and recently transitioned to Kotlin. VLC does not use the log4j library on any platform and is therefore unaffected by any related security implications.

We are pleased to release version 3.4.0 of the VLC version for the Android platforms. Still based on libVLC 3, it revamps the Audio Player and the Auto support, it adds bookmarks in each media, simplifies the permissions and improves video grouping. See our Android page.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the 3.0.16 release of VLC, which fixes delays when seeking on Windows, opening DVD folders with non-ASCII character names, fixes HTTPS support on Windows XP, addresses audio drop-outs on seek with specific MP4 content and improves subtitles renderering. It also adds support for the TouchBar on macOS. More details on the release page.

VLC users on Windows might encounter issues when trying to auto update VLC from version 3.0.12 and 3.0.13. Find more details here. We are publishing version 3.0.14 to address this problem for future updates.

VideoLAN is now publishing 3.0.13 release, which improves the network shares and adaptive streaming support, fixes some MP4 audio regressions, fixes some crashes on Windows and macOS and fixes security issues. More details on the release page.

A new release of libbluray was pushed today, adding new APIs, to improve the control of the library, improve platforms support, and fix some bugs. See our libbluray page.

20 years ago today, VideoLAN moved from a closed-source student project to the GNU GPL, thanks to the authorization of the École Centrale Paris director at that time. VLC has grown a lot since, thanks to 1000 volunteers! Read our press release!.

VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC for Android 3.3.4 release which focuses on improving the Chromecast support. Since the 3.3.0 release, a lot of improvements have been made for Android TV, SMB support, RTL support, subtitles picking and stability..

VideoLAN is now publishing 3.0.12 release, which adds support for Apple Silicon, improves Bluray, DASH and RIST support. It fixes some audio issues on macOS, some crashes on Windows and fixes security issues. More details on the release page.

A minor release of libbluray was pushed today, focused on fixing bugs and improving the support for UHD Blurays. More details on the libbluray page.

VideoLAN is proud to release the new major version of VLC for Android. A complete design rework has been done. The navigation is now at the bottom for a better experience. The Video player has also been completely revamped for a more modern look. The video grouping has been improved and lets you create custom groups. You can also easily share your media with your friends. The settings have been simplified and a lot of bugs have been fixed.

Today, VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.11.1 release for macOS, which notably solves an audio rendering regression introduced in the last update specific to that platform. Additionally, it improves playback of HLS streams, WebVTT subtitles and UPnP discovery.

VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC 3.0.11 release, which improves HLS playback and seeking certain m4a files as well as AAC playback. Additionally, this solves an audio rendering regression on macOS when pausing playback and adds further bug fixes. Additionally, a security issue was resolved. More information available on the release page.

VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC 3.0.10 release, which improves DVD, macOS Catalina, adaptive streaming, SMB and AV1 support, and fixes some important security issues. More information available on the release page. We are also releasing new versions for iOS (3.2.8) and Android 3.2.11 for the same security issues.

VideoLAN is publishing updates to VLC on iOS and tvOS, to fix numerous small issues, add passcode protection on the web sharing, and improve the quick actions and the stability of the application.

VideoLAN is publishing updates to VLC on iOS, to improve support for iOS9 compatibility and add new quick actions and improves the collection handling.

We are publishing today libdvdnav and libdvdread minor releases to fix minor crashes and improving the support for difficult discs. See libdvdread page for more information.

VideoLAN is finally publishing its new major version of iOS, numbered 3.2.0. This update starts the changes for the new interface that will drive the development for the next year. It should give the correct building blocks for the future of the iOS app.

VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC 3.0.8 release, which improves adaptive streaming support, audio output on macOS, VTT subtitles rendering, and also fixes a dozen of security issues. More information available on the release page.

After 100 millions downloads of 3.0.6, VideoLAN is releasing today the VLC 3.0.7 release, focusing on numerous security fixes, improving HDR support on Windows, and Blu-ray menu support. VideoLAN would like to thank the EU-FOSSA project from the European Commission, who funded this initiative. More information available on the release page.

VideoLAN is happy to present the new major version of VLC for Android platforms. Featuring AV1 decoding with dav1d, Android Auto, Launcher Shortcuts, Oreo/Pie integration, Video Groups, SMBv2, and OTG drive support, but also improvements on Cast, Chromebooks and managing the audio/video libraries, this is a quite large update.

VideoLAN is releasing a new major version of libbluray: 1.1.0. It adds support for UHD menus (experimental), for more recents of Java, and improves vastly BD-J menus. This release fixes numerous small issues reported.

VideoLAN is releasing a new minor version of libdvdread, numbered 6.0.1, fixing minor DVD issues. See libdvdread page for more info.

VideoLAN is very happy to announce that VLC crossed the 3 billion downloads on our website: VLC statistics. Please note that this number is under-estimating the number of downloads of VLC.

VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC 3.0.6 release, which fixes an important regression that appeared on 3.0.5 for DVD subtitles. It also adds support for HDR in AV1.

VideoLAN is now publishing the VLC 3.0.5 release, a new minor release of the 3.0 branch. This release notably improves the macOS mojave support, adds a new AV1 decoder and fixes numerous issues with hardware acceleration on Windows. More information available here.

VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.4 release, a new minor release of the 3.0 branch. This release notably improves the video outputs on most OSes, supports AV1 codec, and fixes numerous small issues on all OSes and Platforms. More information available here. Update for all Windows versions is strongly advised.

VideoLAN is publishing today, VLC 3.0.13 on Android and Android TV. This release fixes numerous issues from the 3.0.x branch and improves stability.

VideoLAN is publishing today, VLC 3.1.0 on iOS and on Windows App (WinRT) platforms. This release brings hardware encoding and ChromeCast on those 2 mobile platforms. It also updates the libvlc to 3.0.3 in those platforms.

VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.3 release, a new minor release of 3.0. This release is fixing numerous crashes and regressions from VLC 3.0.0, “Vetinari”, and it fixes some security issues. More information available here. Update for everyone is advised for this release.

VideoLAN is publishing the VLC 3.0.2 release, for general availability. This release is fixing most of the important bugs and regressions from VLC 3.0.0, “Vetinari”, and improves decoding speed on macOS. More than 150 bugs were fixed since the 3.0.0 release. More information available here.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing VLC 3.0.1, the first bugfix release of the “Vetinari” branch, for Linux, Windows and macOS. This version improves the chromecast support, hardware decoding, adaptive streaming, and fixes many bugs or crashes encountered in the 3.0.0 version. In total more than 30 issues have been fixed, on all platforms. More information available here.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing VLC 3.0.0 “Vetinari” for Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, Android, iOS, UWP and Windows Phone today! This is the first major release in three years. It activates hardware decoding by default to get 4K and 8K playback, supports 10bits and HDR playback, 360° video and 3D audio, audio passthrough for HD audio codecs, streaming to Chromecast devices (even in formats not supported natively), playback of Blu-Ray Java menus and adds browsing of local network drives. More info on our release page.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.8 of VLC media player today. This release fixes a security issue in the AVI demuxer. Additionally, it includes the following fixes, which are part of 2.2.7: This release fixes compatibility with macOS High Sierra and fixes SSA subtitles rendering on macOS. This release also fixes a few security issues, in the flac and the libavcodec modules (heap write overflow), in the avi module and a few crashes. For macOS users, please note: A bug was fixed in VLC 2.2.7 concerning the update mechanism on macOS. In rare circumstances, an auto-update from older versions of VLC to VLC 2.2.8 might not be possible. Please download the update manually from our website in this case.

The VideoLAN non-profit organization is joining the Alliance for Open Media, to help developing open and royalty-free codecs and other video technologies! More information in our press release: VideoLAN joins Alliance for Open Media.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.5.1 of VLC media player today This fifth stable release of the “WeatherWax” version of VLC fixes a few bugs reported on VLC 2.2.4, notably video rendering issues on AMD graphics card as well as audio distortion on macOS and 64bit Windows for certain audio files. It also includes updated codecs libraries and improves overall security. Read more about it on our release page.

Following the recent revelations from Wikileaks about the use of VLC by the CIA, you can download the official statement from the VideoLAN organization here.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish beta version 2.1 of VLC for Android today It brings 360° video & faster audio codecs passthru support, performances improvements, Android auto integration and a refreshed UX. See all new features and get it

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.0 of VLC for Android today It supports network shares browsing and playback, video playlists, downloading subtitles, pop-up video view and multiwindows, the new releases of the Android operating system, and merged Android TV and Android packages. Get it now! and give us your feedback.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.4 of VLC media player today This fourth stable release of the “WeatherWax” version of VLC fixes a few bugs reported on VLC 2.2.3 for Windows XP and certain audio files. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes a security issue when playing specifically crafted QuickTime files as well as a 3rd party security issue in libmad. Read more about it on our release page.

Due to unscheduled maintenance on one of our servers, some git repositories, the trac bug tracker and mailing-lists are currently not available. We are restoring the services, but we can’t give detailed information when everything will be back online. Note that downloads from this website, git repositories on code.videolan.org, the wiki and the forum are not affected. Important: Any communication send to email addresses on the videolan.org domain (aka yourdude@videolan.org) won’t reach the receiver.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.3 of VLC media player today This third stable release of the “WeatherWax” version of VLC fixes more than 30 important bugs reported on VLC 2.2.2. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes 3rd party libraries security issues. Read more about it on our release page.

2016 is a special year for many FLOSS projects: VideoLAN as open-source project and Free Software Foundation Europe both have their 15th birthday while KDE has its 20th birthday. All these call for celebrations! This year VideoLAN has come together with Qt, FSFE, KDE and KDAB to bring you QtCon, where attendees can meet, collaborate and get the latest news of all these projects. VideoLAN Dev Days 2016 will be organised as part of QtCon in Berlin. The event will start on Friday the 2nd of September with 3 shared days of talks, workshops, meetups and coding sessions. The current plan is to have a Call for Papers in March with the Program announced in early June.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to publish version 2.2.2 of VLC media player today This second stable release of the “WeatherWax” version of VLC fixes more than 100 important bugs and security issues reported on VLC 2.2.1. It also includes updated codecs libraries and fixes 3rd party libraries security issues. Finally, this update solves installation issues on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. Read more about it on our release page.

VideoLAN is happy to celebrate with you the 15th anniversary of the birth of VideoLAN and VLC as open source projects!

VideoLAN and the VLC team is excited to announce the first release of VLC for Apple TV. It allows you to get access to all your files and video streams in their native formats without conversions, directly on the new Apple device and your TV. You can find details in our press release.

VideoLAN is proud to announce the release of version 1.4.0 of libdvdcss. This release adds support for network callbacks, to play ISOs over the network, Android support, and cleans the codebase.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are excited to announce a major version of VLC for iOS today, which adds full support for iOS 9 including split screen and iPad Pro, for Windows shares (SMB), watchOS 2, a new subtitles engine, right-to-left interfaces, system-wide search (spotlight), Touch ID protection, and more. It will be available on the App Store shortly.

VideoLAN and the Android teams are happy to announce the port of VLC to the ChromeOS operating system. This is the port of the Android version to ChromeOS, using the Android Runtime on Chrome. You can download it now!.

VideoLAN and the Android teams are happy to present the release of VLC for Android 1.7.0. This release includes a large refactoring that gives a new playlist, new notifications, a new subtitles engine, and uses less permissions. Get it now!.

VideoLAN and the Android teams are happy to present the release of VLC for Android 1.6.0. Ported to Android 6.0, this release should provide an important performance boost for decoding and the interface. Get it now!.

VideoLAN and the DVBlast teams are happy to present the simultaneous release of DVBlast 3.0, bitstream 1.1 and multicat 2.1! DVBlast and multicat are now ported to OSX and DVBlast 3.0 is a major rewrite with new features like PID/SID remapping and stream monitoring. DVBlast, bitstream and multicat.

VideoLAN and the libbluray team are releasing today libbluray 0.9.0. Adding numerous features, notably to better support BD-J menus and embedded subtitles files, it also fixes a few important issues, like font-caching. See more on libbluray page

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are excited to announce a major version of VLC for iOS today, which adds support for Apple Watch to remote control and browse the library on iPhone, a mini player and large number of improvements through-out the app.
It will be available on the App Store shortly.

The 2 VideoLAN Blu-Ray libraries have been released: libbluray 0.8.0, libaacs 0.8.1. These releases add support for ISO files, BD-J JSM and virtual devices.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing today VLC 2.2.1, named “Terry Pratchett”. This first stable release of the “WeatherWax” version of VLC fixes most of the important bugs reported of VLC 2.2.0. VLC 2.2.0, a major version of VLC, introduced accelerated auto-rotation of videos, 0-copy hardware acceleration, support for UHD codecs, playback resume, integrated extensions and more than 1000 bugs and improvements. 2.2.0 release was the first release to have versions for all operating systems, including mobiles (iOS, Android, WinRT). More info on our release page

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to release updates for all three mobile platforms today. VLC for Android received support for audio playlists, improved audio quality, improvements to the material design interface, including the black theme and switch to audio mode. Further, it is a major update for Android TV adding support for media discovery via UPnP, with improvements for recommendations and gamepads. VLC for Windows Phone and WinRT received partial hardware accelerated decoding allowing playback of HD contents of certain formats as well as further iterations on the user interface. For VLC for iOS, we focused on improved cloud integration adding support for iCloud Drive, OneDrive and Box.com, a 10-band equalizer as well as sharing of the media library on the local network alongside an improved playback experience. All updates will be available on the respective stores later today. We hope that you like them as much as we do.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are releasing VLC 2.2.0 for most OSes. We’re releasing the desktop version for Linux, Windows, OS X, BSD, and at the same time, Android, iOS, Windows RT and Windows Phone versions. More info on our release page and press release.

The 3 VideoLAN Blu-Ray libraries have been released: libbluray 0.7.0, libaacs 0.8.0 and libbdplus 0.1.2 library. Those releases notably improves BD-J support, fonts support and file-system access.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new release for Android. This focuses on fixing crashes, better decoding and update of translations. More info in the release notes and download page.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new minor version of the VLC 2.1.x branch. This fixes a few bugs and security issues in third-party libraries, like GnuTLS and libpng. More info on our release page

The 3 VideoLAN Blu-Ray libraries have been released: libbluray 0.6.0, libaacs 0.7.1 and libbdplus 0.1.1 library. Those releases notably add correct support for BD-J, the Java interactivity layer of Blu-Ray Discs.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new release for Android today. It improves a lot DVD menus and navigation, adds compatibility with Android L, fixes a few UI crashes and updates the translations. More info in the release notes.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new release for Android today. It adds support for DVD menus, a new VLC icon, tutorials and numerous fixes for crashes. More info in the release notes.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new release for iOS today. It adds support for folders to group media, more options to customize playback, improved network interaction in various regards, many small but noticeable improvements as well as 3 new translations. More info in the release notes.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present their new distributed codec, named CloudCodet! To help smartphones users, this codec allows powerful computers to decode for other devices and the CPU-sharers will mine some conecoin, a new cone-shaped crypto-currency, in reward. More info on our press page

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present two updates for Mac OS X today. Version 2.1.4 solves an important DVD playback regression, while 2.0.10 accumulates a number of small improvements and bugfixes for older Macs based on PowerPC or 32-bit Intel CPUs running OS X 10.5.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present a new minor version of the VLC 2.1.x branch. Fixing multiple bugs and regressions introduced in 2.1.0, 2.1.1 and 2.1.2, notably on audio and video outputs, decoders and demuxers More info on our release page

Several Blu-Ray related libraries have been released: libbluray 0.5.0, libaacs 0.7.0 and the new libbdplus library.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present the second minor version of the VLC 2.1.x branch. Fixing many bugs and regressions introduced in 2.1.0, notably on audio device management and SPDIF/HDMI pass-thru. More info on our release page

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present the first minor version of the VLC 2.1.x branch. Fixing a numerous number of bugs and regressions introduced in 2.1.0, it also adds experimental HEVC and VP9 decoding and improves VLC installer on Windows. More info on our release page

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are glad to present a new minor version of the VLC 2.0.x branch. Mostly focused on fixing a few important bugs and security issues, this version is mostly needed for Mac OS X, notably for PowerPC and Intel32 platforms that cannot upgrade to 2.1.0.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are glad to present the new major version of VLC, 2.1.0, named Rincewind With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC. Rincewind has a new rendering pipeline for audio, with better effiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC audio support. It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs. More info on our release page.

VideoLAN and the VLC for iOS development team are happy to present version 2.1 of VLC for iOS, a first major update to this new port adding support for subtitles in non-western languages, basic UPNP discovery and streaming, FTP server discovery, streaming and downloading, playback of audio-only media, a newly implemented menu and application flow as well as various stability improvements, minor enhancements and additional translations.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present VLC 2.0.8, a security update to the “Twoflower” family, and VLC 2.1.0-pre2, the second pre-version of VLC 2.1.0. You can find info about 2.0.8 in the release notes. VLC 2.1.0-pre2 is a test version of the next major version of VLC, named “Rincewind”, intended for advanced users. If you’re brave, you can try it now! **NB:**The first binaries of 2.0.8 for Win32 and Mac were broken. Please re-download them.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present the eighth version of “Twoflower”, a minor update that improves the overall stability. Notable changes include fixes for audio decoding, audio encoding, small security issues, regressions, fixes for PowerPC, Mac OS X and new translations. More info in the release notes.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present the seventh version of “Twoflower”, a minor update that improves the overall stability. Notable changes include support for Matroska v4, improved reliability for ASF, Ogg, ASF and srt support, fixed GPU decoding on Windows on Intel GPU, fixed ALAC and FLAC decoding, and a new compiler for Windows release. More info in the release notes.

Today, the fundraising campaign for for Windows 8, RT and Phone run by some VideoLAN team members ended. Their goal was successfully reached and they announced to start working on the new ports right away. Find out more.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present the sixth version of “Twoflower”, a minor update that improves the overall stability. Notable changes include improved reliability for MKV file playback, fixed MPEG2 audio and video encoding, pulseaudio synchronization, Mac OS interface, and other fixes. It also resolves potential security issues in HTML subtitle parser, freetype renderer, AIFF demuxer and SWF demuxer. More info in the release notes. We would like to remind our users that some VideoLAN team members are trying to raise money for VLC for Windows Metro on Kickstarter.

Today, some VideoLAN team members launched a fundraiser on Kickstarter to support a port to the new User Experience on Windows 8 (aka “Metro”) and Windows RT. Find out more.

Today, some VideoLAN team members launched a fundraiser on Kickstarter to support a port to the new User Experience on Windows 8 (aka “Metro”) and Windows RT. Find out more.

VLC media player versions 2.0.3 and older suffer from a critical buffer overflow vulnerability. Refer to our advisory for technical details. A fix for this issue is already available in VLC 2.0.4. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

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.

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 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.

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.

After more than 100 million downloads of VLC 2.0 versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present the third version of “Twoflower”, a major update that fixes a lot of regressions in this branch. It introduces an important number of features for the Mac OS X platform, notably interface improvements to be on-par with the classic VLC interface, better performance and Retina Display support. VLC 2.0.2 fixes the video playback on older devices both on MS Windows and Mac OS X, includes overall performance improvements and fixes for a couple of hundreds of bugs. More info in the release notes.

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.

We will presenting VLC and other VideoLAN projects at LinuxTag in Berlin this week (booth #167, hall 7.2a). Come around and have a look at our latest developments! Of course, we will also be present during LinuxNacht, in case that you prefer to share a beer with us.

VideoLAN would like to thank VLC users 1 billion times, since VLC has now been downloaded more than 1 billion times from our servers, since 2005! Get the numbers!

After 15 million downloads of VLC 2.0.0 versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present the second version of “Twoflower”, a bugfix release. Support for MxPEG files, new features in the Mac OS X interface are part of this release, in addition to faster decoding and fixes for hundred of bugs and regression, notably for HLS, MKV, RAR, Ogg, Bluray discs and many other things. This is also a security update. More info on the release notes.

After 485 million downloads of VLC 1.1.x versions, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 2.0.0 “Twoflower”, a major new release. With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and BluRay Discs (experimental). It features a completely reworked Mac and Web interfaces and improvements in the other interfaces make VLC easier than ever to use. Twoflower fixes several hundreds of bugs, in more than 7000 commits from 160 volunteers. More info on the release notes.

VideoLAN will have a booth (#74) at the Southern California Linux Expo at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel next week-end. The event will take place from Friday throughout Sunday. We will happily show you the latest developments and our forthcoming major VLC update.

VideoLAN is happy to announce the second major release of multicat. It brings numerous new features, such as recording chunks of a stream in a directory, and supporting TCP socket and IPv6, as well as bug fixes. Also aggregaRTP was extended to support retransmission of lost packets.

VideoLAN is happy to announce version 2.1 of DVBlast. It is a bugfix release, fixing in particular a problem with MMI menus present in 2.0.

As previously stated, VideoLAN worked on the relicensing of libVLC and libVLCcore: the VLC engine. We are glad to announce that this process is now complete for VLC 1.2. Thanks a lot for the support.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.13, a bug and security fix release. This release was necessary due to a security issue in the TiVo demuxer. Source code is available.

VideoLAN is happy to announce DVBlast 2.0, the fourth major release of DVBlast. It fixes a number of issues, such as packet bursts and CAM communication problems, adds more configuration options, and improves dvblastctl with stream information. It also gets rid of the runtime dependency on libdvbpsi thanks to biTStream. VideoLAN is also happy to introduce the first public release of biTStream, a set of C headers allowing a simpler access (read and write) to binary structures such as specified by MPEG, DVB, IETF, etc… It is released under the MIT license to avoid readability concerns being shadowed by license issues. It already has a pretty decent support of MPEG systems packet structures, MPEG PSI, DVB SI, DVB simulcast and IETF RTP.

The doom9 researchers and the libaacs developers would like to present the first official release of their library of the implementation of the libaacs standard. libaacs 0.3.0 source code can be downloaded on the VideoLAN download service. **Nota Bene:**This library is of no use without AACS keys.

VideoLAN and the libbluray developers would like to present the first official release of their library to help playback of Blu-Ray for open source systems. libbluray 0.2.1 source code can be downloaded on the VideoLAN ftp.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.12, a bug and security fix release with improvements for audio output on Mac OS X and with PulseAudio. This release was necessary due to a security issue in the HTTP and RTSP server components, though this does not affect standard usage of the player. Binaries for Mac OS X and sources are available.

During the third VideoLAN Dev Days, last weekend in Paris, numerous developers approved the process of changing the license of the VLC engine to LGPL 2.1 (or later). This is the beginning of the process and will require the authorization from all the past contributors. See our press release on this process.

The libdvbpsi development team release version 0.2.1 of their library for decoding and encoding MPEG-TS PSI information commonly found in DVB and MPEG transport streams. The version 0.2.1 is a bugfix release which corrects minor issues in libdvbpsi. For more information on features visit libdvbpsi main page.

VideoLAN would like to invite you to join us at the VideoLAN Dev Days 2011. This technical conference about open source multimedia, will see developers from VLC, libav, FFmpeg, x264, Phonon, DVBlast, PulseAudio, KDE, Gnome and other projects gather to discuss about open source development for multimedia projects. It will be held in Paris, France, on September 3rd and 4th, 2011. See more info, on the dedicated page.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.11, a security release with some other improvements. This release was necessary due to two security issues in the real and avi demuxers. It also contains improvements in the fullscreen mode of the Win32 mozilla plugin, the MacOSX Media Key handling and Auhal audio output as well as bug fixes in GUI, decoders and demuxers.. Source and binaries builds for Windows and Mac are available.

Shortly after VLC 1.1.10, VideoLAN and the VLC development team present version 1.1.10.1, which includes small fixes for the Mac OS X port such as disappearing repeat buttons and restored Freebox TV access. Additionally, the installation size was reduced by up to 30 MB. See the release notes for more information on the additional improvements included from VLC 1.1.10.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.10, a minor release of the 1.1 branch. This release, 2 months after 1.1.9, was necessary because some security issues were found (see SA 1104), and the VLC development team cares about security. This release brings a rewritten pulseaudio output, an important number of small Mac OS X fixes, the removal of the font-cache building for the freetype module on Windows and updates of codecs. Source and binaries builds for Windows and Mac are available. See the release notes for more information on 1.1.10.

The libdvbpsi development team release version 0.2.0 of their library for decoding and encoding MPEG-TS PSI information commonly found in DVB and MPEG transport streams. The version 0.2.0 marks a license change from GPLv2 to LGPLv2.1. For more information on features visit libdvbpsi main page.

VideoLAN would like to point out that the Phonon team has released Phonon VLC 0.4.0. The new version of the best backend for the Qt multimedia library features much improved stability, more video features and control as well as completely redone streaming input capabilities. You can read more on Phonon VLC 0.4.0 in the release announcement!

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.9, a minor release of the 1.1 branch. This release, not long after 1.1.8, was necessary because some security issues were found, and the VLC development team cares about security. This release also brings updated translations and a lot of small Mac OS X fixes. Source and binaries builds for Windows and Mac are available. See the release notes for more information on 1.1.9.

libdvbcsa’s new versions brings major speed improvements and optimizations of key schedules. It also fixes minor issues. You can get it now on our FTP or on the main libdvbcsa page!

Instead of having a lousy student summer internship, why not working for VideoLAN and have an impact on millions of people world-wide? The Google Summer of Code program is starting soon and you should send your applications before April 8th 2011, 19:00 UTC, on the webapplication. You shouldn’t wait for the last minute and we would like to remember that application can be modified afterwards and that you can submit multiple applications. Join the team now!

Yet again, broken anti-virus software flag the latest version of VLC on Windows as a malware. This is, once again, a false positive. As some of the anti-virus makers plainly refuse to fix their code, we recommend to our users to stop using Kaspersky, AVL, TheHacker or AVG. Users are advised to use the free Antivir or the new Microsoft Security Essential. Moreover, we advise users to download VLC only from videolan.org, as very numerous scam websites have appeared lately.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.8, a minor release of the 1.1 branch. Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues are making this release too. Notable improvements include updated look on Mac, new Dirac encoder, new VP8/Webm encoder, and numerous fixes in codecs, demuxers, interface, subtitles auto-detection, protocols and platform integration. Source and Windows and MacOSX builds are available. See the release notes for more information on 1.1.8.

The VideoLAN project and organization would like to thank everyone for the support during this month for our 10 years We’d like to invite you to meet us at the CeBIT, starting from tomorrow, in the open source lounge, Hall 2, Stand F44.

The VideoLAN project and organization continues to celebrate with the community the 10^th anniversary of open sourcing of all VideoLAN software. Day 6 showed a selection of extensions; Day 7 detailed a few secret features; Day 8 showed a few nice cones; Day 9 detailed our committers and download numbers; Day 10 showed of a showed a promotionnal video. Please join the celebration!

The VideoLAN project and organization continues to celebrate with the community the 10^th anniversary of open sourcing of all VideoLAN software. Day 1 spoke about the early history of the project; Day 2 spoke about the website design; Day 3 showed a cool video; Day 4 listed our preferred skins; Day 5 showed of a photo of the team at the FOSDEM; Day 6 (one day late) showed a selection of extensions. Please join the celebration!

As you might have seen, we’ve change the design of the main website.

The website design was done by Argon and this project was sponsored by netzwelt.de.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team present VLC 1.1.7, a small security update on 1.1.6. Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues were making the 1.1.6 release. Notable improvements include codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualization and platform integration. Source and Windows and MacOSX builds are available. See the release notes for more information on 1.1.6.

Source was available yesterday; binaries for Windows and Mac OS X are now available.

The VideoLAN project and organization are proud to celebrate with the community the 10^th anniversary of open sourcing of all VideoLAN software, that happened exactly 10 years ago.

To celebrate, small infos, stories and goodies will be posted in the next ten days on this site. Day 1 speaks about the early history of the project Please join the celebration!

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.6, the sixth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. Small new features, many bugfixes, updated translations and security issues are making this release. Notable improvements include codecs, demuxers, Audio-CD support, subtitles, visualization and platform integration. Source and Windows and MacOSX builds are available. See the release notes for more information. NB: The first versions for Intel-based Macs (64bit and Universal Binary) included a rtsp streaming bug, which also hindered access to the Freebox. Please re-download.

The VideoLAN team ceases all form of support for VLC media player versions 1.0.x. Focusing maintenance efforts on the current VLC 1.1 versions, and further development on the upcoming VLC 1.2 series, the VideoLAN team will not deliver any further update for VLC versions 1.0.x (last release was 1.0.6), and VLC 0.9.x (last release was 0.9.10). VLC 1.1.6 will be released shortly. This release will introduce a few enhancements, fix a number of bugs and address several security vulnerabilities. Therefore all VLC users and LibVLC developers are strongly advised to upgrade to the 1.1 version series, if they have not already done so.

The VideoLAN project has been notified that the build of VLC for iOS that was submitted on the AppStore by the company Applidium has been removed by Apple from the iOS AppStore. The VideoLAN non-profit organization is a 3rd party in this matter and, while VideoLAN regrets the annoyance that could be caused to the users, VideoLAN is not responsible for this matter. However, we are going to work and try to discuss with all the parties to find the best solution in the shortest time possible.

The VideoLAN project and the VLC development team would love VLC users and community to help them in understanding the users and their needs. Please fill the VLC users survey. It is quick and is completely anonymous.

VideoLAN is one of the organization selected by Google for the Google Code-In program. If you are a student, between 13 and 18 years old, you can apply to help the VideoLAN project. Tasks include code and not-code short amount of work that will help greatly the VideoLAN project. Join Now!

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.5, the fifth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. Small new features, notably GME and live .webm support and an integrated listing of web-shows directly in the playlist are making this release. Many bugfixes, updated translations and security issue are also part of this release. Source and Windows and MacOSX builds are available. See the release notes for more information.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are happy to present VLC 1.1.4.1, a fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. This release does only target PowerPC-based Macs. It is the first release of this branch for this platform and includes all the features, improvements and bug-fixes you have been waiting for. This is a security update, so we recommend all users to update to this new version (CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004).

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.4, the fourth bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. An important class of security issues was discovered on Windows, and VLC and many other important applications on Windows are affected; see our security advisory. Source and Windows builds are available. See the release notes for more information.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.3, the third bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. Some more bugs were squashed and a potential security issue leading to a crash, was discovered. On top of that, this release introduces small fixes and improvements over VLC 1.1.2, for most platforms. Source code and binaries for Windows and Mac (Intel) are available. See the release notes for more information. NB: first Windows installer were corrupted, please use the updated ones.

A new project is now hosted by VideoLAN: libaacs. Mostly made by developers from Doom9, this research project implement the public AACS specification. NB: libaacs is a research project and does not distribute any key.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.2, the second bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. After just ten days of 1.1.1, some more bugs were squashed, hence a new release. This release introduces small fixes and improvements over VLC 1.1.1, notably on Windows. Source code and binaries for Windows and Mac (Intel) are available. See the release notes for more information.

This is just a short update to inform our users that VLC 1.1.1 binaries for Mac Intel have arrived. They should fix the Multi-Channel crashes of the 1.1.0. See release notes for more information.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present VLC 1.1.1, the first bugfix release of the VLC 1.1.x branch. After almost one month and more than 17 million downloads of the VLC 1.1.0, this release introduces numerous fixes and small improvements over VLC 1.1.0. Source code and binaries for Windows are available, other operating systems will come later. See the release notes for more information.

A new project is now hosted by VideoLAN: libbluray. Mostly made by developers from Doom9, this library aims at integration of Blu-Ray movies playback into media players, like VLC and VLC’s competitors. NB: This library does not break any DRM.

The latest released version of VLC, 1.1.0, that was out a week ago, and has been downloaded half-a-dozen millions times so far, has added GPU acceleration for HD decoding under Linux and Windows. On Windows, as already stated, the code isn’t working correctly with AMD Radeon cards. Therefore, we have been working with AMD on this topic and after common work, we are going to release a new version of VLC, versionned as 1.1.1, that will work with the upcoming ATI Catalyst 10.7 driver. AMD did provide us a beta of this driver and we have verified successfully that GPU acceleration works. Thanks for your understanding and your support.

VideoLAN and the VLC development team are proud to present the first major release of the ‘The Luggage’ branch of the popular media player and media framework. This release brings many major improvements, especially: GPU and DSP decoding on selected platforms, new support for codecs, demuxers and muxers, Lua extensions and Lua content extensions (luaSD), improved interfaces, Video Output rework, removal of lots of modules, rewrite of many in order to improve performance, in CPU, RAM and I/O. It introduces also new libVLC and new bindings and improves the port on many platforms. Learn more about the release.

VideoLAN is sad to announce that, starting from VLC 1.1.0, the SHOUTcast module is not available on the distributed VLC any longer, because AOL Corporation is hindering Open Source Software. AOL wants to force VLC to be relicensed to close-source and shipped with an adware software from them. You can find more information.

VideoLAN and the VLC developers are proud to announce the first Release Candidate of the 1.1.0 version of VLC. This test release, aimed at power-users is a major update on the current VLC 1.0.x branch. It includes numerous changes, modification and improvements, including GPU/DSP decoding, support for more formats and codecs and extensions.

Source and full Changelog are available now.

The x264 project has announced the first free software encoder to be able to generate Blu-ray compliant video. In addition, the announcement comes with a torrent of an x264-encoded Blu-ray disc containing entirely free content, such as the Open Movie Project videos. While there are still no free software Blu-ray authoring tools, hopefully this will change now that video and audio are taken care of so that everyone will be able to make their own Blu-rays without expensive proprietary software. Grab your torrent now!. Know more about this achievement!

The VLC development team is proud to introduce a new version of its ‘Goldeneye’ branch. This release bridges the gap between version 1.0.5 and the upcoming 1.1.0 VLC release. It fixes several vulnerabilities which were uncovered during the development of VLC 1.1.0. It also introduces a number of additional stability and other fixes.

Students that want to work for VideoLAN during the summer, with the Google Summer of Code program should remember to send applications before Friday, April 9th 2010, 19:00 UTC, on the webapplication. You shouldn’t wait for the last minute and we would like to remember that application can be modified afterwards and that you can submit multiple applications.

April Fools’ ! VideoLAN is proud to announce that it has been acquired by RealNetworks, the world’s premiere provider of Internet media delivery tools. RealNetworks will be working with VideoLAN over the next few months to leverage the powerful Real toolset to improve VLC media player and other VideoLAN software.

Accordingly, with the introduction of Real’s superior solutions, we will be dropping all other encoders from the streaming component of VLC media player. Additionally, to better serve our customers, we will be introducing a new VLC media player Pro application, with cutting edge streaming capabilities and the ability to play back and edit all Real video and audio formats. This new application will be available for the low low price of $30/€30. We hope you enjoy the new VLC media player! April Fools’ !

So-called “Security” teams are spreading wrong information about an “unpatched” security issue in VLC. ISS and SecurityFocus are presenting a security issue in versions of VLC, that are, in fact, more than 2 years old. This issue has been fixed since a long time and since 20 versions of VLC.

Of course, the latest version of VLC isn’t affected.

Multicat is a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams in particular. VideoLAN is glad to announce the first public release of this new software, released under the GPL license. Visit the project page or proceed to download Multicat.

The DVBlast team is happy to announce version 1.2 of DVBlast. DVBlast is a powerful and simple streaming application for DVB cards under Linux. In addition to numerous fixes, this new release also brings new features such as DVB-ASI or UDP/RTP inputs, and IPv6 support. Visit the project page or proceed to download DVBlast. Please note that it requires libdvbpsi.

A bug in Clam AntiVirus hinders use of VLC media player 1.0.5 for Windows.

The VideoLAN team will be at FOSDEM in Brussels. If you have some time we will be happy to welcome you on our booth. We will do some demonstration about some nice features on the road for the next major release like extensions.

VideoLAN and the VLC developers are very proud to announce their latest release of VLC. After more than 51 million downloads of VLC 1.0.3, this version is specially aimed towards Windows and Mac platforms, and brings various fixes, speed improvements and translations updates. The Windows version benefits speed-ups from both an updated compiler (gcc 4.4.2) and codecs updates. The Mac version brings support for the latest Apple Remote and updated codecs too.

Some antivirus have wrongly detected a virus in the Windows release, if you want the VideoLAN team can suggest better antivirus or operating system, on request.

Be careful, VLC 1.1 is on the road!

The second edition of the VideoLAN Dev Days is now finished and was a great success. New project were presented, ideas about the future of VideoLAN and VLC were shared and technical issues could be discussed.

We would like to thank a lot everybody who participated to the event and, of course, our great sponsors without this event could not happen : Epitech, région Île de France and Anevia.

The VideoLAN organization, the VLC, VLMa and DVBlast developers are inviting you to come and meet us, in Paris, France, from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th December 2009. Open Party will happen on Friday night at La Cantine. Other events will happen during 3 days: program and details. Free registration is mandatory!

We would like to thanks our sponsors: Epitech and Anevia.

The VideoLAN organization, the VLC, VLMa and DVBlast developers are inviting you to come and meet us, in Paris, France, on Friday 18th December 2009. Presentations about VideoLAN, next version of VLC and other cool projects will be held. This is a unique occasion to meet all the VLC developers!

Registration is MANDATORY. Details can be found on: La Cantine’s Website and on our twitter account.

The VLC development team is quite happy to introduce a new version of its ‘Goldeneye’ branch. This release is targetted at fixing bugs on the X11 platforms, fixing bugs especially for KDE, cairo-dock, XCB, v4l and FreeBSD compatibility. Binaries for Windows and Mac OS are not yet on the pipe.

The VideoLAN non-profit organization is happy to invite you to the multimedia open-source event of this end of year: VideoLAN Dev Days ‘09.

For the second time, people from the VideoLAN community will meet in Paris to gather, work, discuss and build a stronger community, on the 18th, 19th and 20th of december 2009.

Details and program are available.

The DVBlast team is happy to announce version 1.1 of DVBlast. DVBlast is a powerful and simple streaming application for DVB cards under Linux. In addition to numerous tuning and descrambling fixes, this new release also brings new features such as EIT pass-through (for EPG) or DVB Diseqc. Visit the project page or proceed to download DVBlast. Please note that it requires libdvbpsi.

The VLC developers are glad to report that Apple’s recently announced Mac OS X update to version 10.6.2 includes a fix which let’s correctly you use the Apple Remote within VLC again. Prior releases of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 included a bug, which caused interferences with iTunes or DVD Player when using the Apple Remote in 3rd party applications. According to Apple, this update also addresses video playback and performance issues on certain setups. Please note that VLC 1.0.3 is required to use the Apple Remote on Mac OS X 10.6.2.

The VLC developers are glad to bring you a new version of the award-winning VLC. This version brings a various improvements and fixes, and especially an important issue with Windows® 7 that worsened the video quality of the default output of VLC. VLC 1.0.3 has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be «Compatible with Windows® 7» This release also provides new deinterlacer filters, fixes for the interface and the WMA Professional support on Windows. Update: Binaries for Mac OS X are now available.

The VLC developers are very glad to offer you the first release candidate of the third minor update of the popular “Goldeneye” version of VLC. This version brings a few improvements and fixes, and especially fixes an important issue with Windows® 7 that worsened the video quality of the default output of VLC. As Windows® 7 will be available today, the windows maintainers of VLC wanted to sync with this release. This release candidate provides also updated translations, new deinterlacer filters, fixes for the interface and the WMA Professional support on Windows.

The VLC developers are happy to announce that the latest version of VLC, 1.0.2, has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be Compatible with Windows® 7. This means that VLC is tested for compatibility and reliability on Windows® 7, has passed Microsoft designed tests to minimize the possibility of crashs, hangs, and reboot and installs cleanly and reliably. While this shows that you can have confidence in installing VLC on your Windows® 7 installation, there are still bugs on the visual quality, depending on your video driver. See our wiki for more details.

The dutch based conference T-DOSE is being held for the fourth year in a row and has interesting talks. If you want to meet people from VideoLAN project and know more about VLC 1.0 then meet us at the booth. People from VideoLAN team will be present at the T-Dose conference in the next days. For more information on T-DOSE schedule visit this link.

After almost 2 months and 27 million downloads of VLC 1.0.1, the VLC team is proud to present the third version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.2!

This version introduces many fixes, notably for SSA decoding, v4l2, MacOS interface, ogg/theora, x264 modules and security issues. It also introduces the port to 64bits for Mac OS platform and 2 new languages (Kazakh and Croatian). Because of the security issues, we strongly recommand everybody to update its version of VLC.

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the VLC Skin Editor. This version brings again bugfixes and performance improvements but also new features. Among these is the ability to edit Slider curves with the mouse and support for the generation of vertical slider backgrounds. Downloads are available on the Skin Editor page.

VideoLAN is pleased to announce the release of the second version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.1!

3 weeks after the release of 1.0.0, and with almost 14 million downloads, this minor version fixes most of the notable bugs and regressions that were present in the 1.0.0 version. Notable fixes and improvements include:

• fix flv and mpeg2 seeking,
• fixes for wmv, wav, rtsp and ssa support,
• fixes for Qt and Mac OS X interface,
• fix an integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module,
• updates of some translations,
• port of the ZVBI module to Windows for full teletext support and
• codecs updates for Windows and Mac OS X versions.

This version is ready to download! Learn more details about this release! Press and related questions should be forwarded to VideoLAN.

VideoLAN is pleased to announce another bugfix release for the Grishenko branch of VLC. This version mostly targets the Mac OS X 10.4 platform. It includes various improvements and bugfixes for this port as well as updates to access, stream out and decoder modules plus certain third party libraries. The integer underflow fix from VLC 1.0.1 is also included. More details are available on the wiki. We recommend all Mac OS X 10.4 users to update to this release. Download now.

After less than 3 days, the 1.0.0 release of VLC has hit more than 3 million downloads on the download counter. We would like to thank the people who have downloaded it and especially, people who have donated to our cause.

The VideoLAN project is pleased to announce the release of the first version of the Goldeneye branch of VLC: 1.0.0.

This major release introduces many new features, new formats and new codecs to the VLC multimedia framework and fixes a very high number of bugs that were present in the 0.9.x or 0.8.6 versions. You can download it now. The VLC project only lives with volunteers and would love help from new users and contributors: time, code, hardware and money would help us a lot. You don’t need to be a developer to help.

Once again, The VideoLAN Team got a booth at LinuxTAG (June 24 to June 27) in Berlin, Germany. Come around and meet us in hall 7.2a at booth 105. Have a look at the latest and greatest features and see the people behind the cone.

Thanks to the continuous efforts made by the developers and the community, the new version of the award-winning VLC media player, numbered 1.0.0, is approaching the end of development. The release will very likely happen next week. We would like to thank all the people involved with it. Our skin contest is now closed, thanks for participation.

The skins contest is now over, and we have 6 skins that fullfilled the requirements. You can vote now!. At the same time, the VideoLAN project is glad to announce that the fourth release candidate (and hopefully last!) of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc4 is out. Source tarballs are ready, but binaries should follow very soon on our main website.

The VideoLAN project is glad to invite you to test the third release candidate of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc3. Source tarballs, Windows binaries and Mac OS binaries are already available for download. Changes can be found here. VideoLAN would like to mention that the Skins2 contest is still going on. To develop a skin, you can use our new VLC Skin Editor. Please share this contest news on your prefered social bookmarking or news site.

The VideoLAN project is glad to invite you to test the second release candidate of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc2. Source tarballs, Windows binaries and Mac OS binaries are already available for download. Changes can be found here. VideoLAN would like to mention that the Skins2 contest is still going on. To develop a skin, you can use our new VLC Skin Editor. Please share this contest news on your prefered social bookmarking or news site.

The VideoLAN project is glad to invite you to test the first release candidate of the Goldeneye version of VLC, numbered 1.0.0-rc1. Source tarballs and Windows binaries are already available for download. Changes can be found here. VideoLAN would like to take the opportunity to mention the Skins2 contest we are organizing during this release cycle time. To develop a skin, you can use our new VLC Skin Editor. Please share this contest news on your prefered social bookmarking or news site. VLC 1.0.0-rc1, codename Goldeneye, is a test release of the 1.0.0 version of VLC. It introduces many new codecs, various playback core improvements (frame-by-frame, live-recording, instant pausing, etc…), interface improvements, new features and many bugfixes. We encourage people to test and report regressions that could have crept in this release.

DVBlast is a simple and powerful streaming application for linux-dvb devices. It opens a DVB device, tunes it, places PID filters, configures a CAM module, and demultiplexes the packets to several RTP outputs. The VideoLAN project is glad to announce the first public release of this new software, released under the GPL license.

This update is Mac OS X only. It fixes VLC’s behaviour on PowerPC-based Macs and includes updated libraries for all Mac OS X platforms. In order to take full advantage of VLC 0.9.9’s features, including native Real Video playback, we recommend all Mac users to update to this new release. Due to a lack of active Mac OS X developers, these issues remained unnoticed for the last release. We are sorry for the noise and are looking for enthusiastic Mac developers to help and support us.

The VideoLAN team is very pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.9.

This is a bugfix release on the 0.9 branch of VLC. Notables bugfixes are:

• fullscreen behaviour on Windows with multiple screens,
• workaround bug with libxml2 >=2.7.3,
• video performance on Intel-based Macs,
• various decoders updates on Windows.

An experimental native decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 using FFmpeg has been added and many fixes happened in our Real Media demuxer. This should improve Real Media Files support on all platforms.

After years of faithful service, we’ve decided to retire our old logo, the famous cone. It served its purpose, but as VLC 1.0.0 is approaching, we are dropping the passive cone and upgrading to some heavy machinery. The whole team would like to welcome the new VLC logo: Bulldozer! Get ready for some serious earth shattering on the open source multimedia world! VLC 1.0.0 is warming up… maybe it’s not going to be fast but it will wreck everything in its path.

Note: Look at the date…

VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organization for Google’s 2009 edition of Summer of Code. We are looking for interested students that are free this summer. Students can apply now and suggest projects. See VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions.

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC Skin Editor 0.8.1. It fixes several bugs and brings better performance. Furthermore the program is now available in several languages. All users are recommended to upgrade to this release. You can download it from the Skin Editor page.

The VideoLAN Dev Days ‘08, our first real life meeting were a great success. Many development and organization ideas were discussed there. We want to thank everyone that came to see us and the four companies that sponsored us: Anevia, Free, M2X and Uniways. Happy holidays and Merry Christmas to everyone.

The VideoLAN community is a fast-evolving and ever-changing community and development happens really fast. While this is fun, it is always difficult to meet and discuss with each other in person. Therefore, we are happy to invite you to: The VideoLAN Dev Days ‘08, in Paris, France, on the 20-21 December week-end. If you are a developper, a VLC fan or press, and you are interested to come or discuss with the team, please contact us. We would like to thank the four companies that sponsor us: Anevia, Free, M2X and Uniways. Update: You can have a look at the meeting here.

VLC media player 0.9.8a binaries for Windows and MacOS are now available. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VLC media player versions 0.9.8 and older suffer from a critical buffer overflow vulnerability. Refer to our advisory for technical details. Fixes for this issue is available in VLC 0.9.8a. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version. Windows and Mac OS builds are coming at a later date.

VLC media player won a Community Choice Award, organised by our friends from SourceForge, this summer. We just received the award. The whole VideoLAN Team would love to thank many times SourceForge and especially Ross Turk. You can find more infos here and there.

The released 0.9.6 Windows binary presents some issues in the avformat module that can prevent playback of FLV or MXF files. We apologize for this, and corrected the builds accordingly. You can download the correctly builds on your favorite mirror.

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.6. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.5 and earlier versions suffer from a security vulnerability in CUE and Realtext subtitle demuxer. Further technical details are available in our advisory. We recommend all users upgrade to this new version.

On 30 October 2008 VLC media player won a “tim Award” in category “Multimedia Software” at a PC-WELT event. The awards were announced during a gala diner at “Bayerische Hof” in Munich. Two famous german TV presenters hosted the event. The VideoLAN team is very honoured by winning this award and wants to thank its user base for giving us this token of your appreciation. VLC media player could not have won this award without the support and dedication of its users and Open Source developers. Read more about the event on PC-WELT website.

The VideoLAN team ceases all form of support for VLC media player 0.8.6-bugfix tree. After several several call for help, it is apparent that there is no interest in the community to maintain the 0.8.6 branch of the VLC media player. As a consequence, it has not been possible to put sufficient efforts to ensure adequate continued quality of the 0.8.6-bugfix branch. Effective immediately, there will be no more security and critical fixes for VLC 0.8.6. Binary releases of the 0.8.6-bugfix branch had already stopped as of July 2008. The VideoLAN team will continue to provide major or security-related bug fixes for the VLC media player 0.9-bugfix branch. If you have not already upgraded to VLC version 0.9.5, please do so urgently (exploits for vulnerabilities found in older versions are widely available as of today).

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.5. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.9.4 and earlier versions suffer from a security vulnerability in TiVo demuxer. Further technical details are available in our advisory (CVE-2008-4654, CVE-2008-4686). Also, libpng was updated in Windows and MacOS builds to address a separate security issue (CVE-2008-3964). This release also improves media keys support under Windows, file access under all OSes, Qt4 interface usability, and fixes a few extra bugs. Full list of changes can be found here. We utmostly recommend all users upgrade to this new version. Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binary release is indefinitely postponed pending volunteers taking over the Windows port. Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Libera Chat

We’d like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

We accidently released the 0.9.3 Mac OS X PowerPC binary as the 0.9.4 download. We apologize for this, and corrected PowerPC and Universal downloads have been uploaded to our main mirror. It will take up to a day for these binaries to be distributed to some of our mirrors. If you want you can download the file directly from our main server.

We present you with VLC media player 0.9.4, the latest increment of our 0.9 series. This release brings Windows users all the 0.9.3 enhancements and fixes (please see our call for Windows developers below) as well as fixing a few more bugs for the other platforms.

Binary packages for Mac OS X and Windows, as well as source code tarballs are available for download. Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Libera Chat

We’d like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

We are putting out a call for NEW Windows developers. At the moment, our Windows-port is sorely missing some much needed love from a true Windows developer. Our team has been without a Windows developer for several months now, which is blocking us from supporting our largest usergroup in the manner we want to. We are therefore looking for developers to help our team in the areas of debugging crashes, Direct X, A/V capturing, ActiveX and Windows integration, so we can hopefully resume supporting our largest group of users in the best possible way. If we are unable to find new developers, new versions of VLC media player for Windows might become less frequent and severely out of sync with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.

So, no donations for work on the Windows-port and no “opportunities”-emails, for Windows we only require: Developers, Developers, Developers !!!!!

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VLMa (VideoLAN Manager) 0.2.0. Binary packages as well as source tarballs are available for download. Changes from 0.1 to 0.2.0 include:

• support of HTTP streaming,
• ability to choose the encapsulation format
• notifications of servers’ accessibility using mail or IM (MSN and IRC),
• enhanced configurability.

A more complete changelog since 0.1 is available at http://www.videolan.org/vlma/NEWS. For more information about VideoLAN Manager, we recommend you visit VLMa website.

On the heels of 0.9.2 the VideoLAN team presents version 0.9.3, the first bugfix release of the 0.9 series. We are also putting a call out for new Windows developers for our team. Binary packages for Mac OS X and source code tarballs are available for download. Windows binaries might follow at a later time. Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Libera Chat

We’d like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

We are putting out a call for NEW Windows developers. At the moment, our Windows-port is sorely missing some much needed love from a true Windows developer. Our team has been without a Windows developer for several months now, which is blocking us from supporting our largest usergroup in the manner we want to. We are therefore looking for developers to help our team in the areas of debugging crashes, Direct X, A/V capturing, ActiveX and Windows integration, so we can hopefully resume supporting our largest group of users in the best possible way. If we are unable to find new developers, new versions of VLC media player for Windows might become less frequent and severely out of sync with the Linux and Mac OS X versions.

So, no donations for work on the Windows-port and no “opportunities”-emails, for Windows we only require: Developers, Developers, Developers !!!!!

The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC Skin Editor 0.7. After more than a year of development finally the first official stable release is there.

The Skin Editor enables designers to create skins for VLC without having them to learn about XML and the internal makeup of skins2. It provides an easy-to-use WYIWYG editing interface giving full control over all of the skin’s features.

Binary packages for windows, including an installer can be found at the Skin Editor page. There can also be found a build for all other operating systems for which exist a Java Runtime Environment 6 SE.

We’d like to thank all contributors and testers for having made this release possible.

IBC 2008 is the 2nd largest conference and exhibition on Broadcasting technology in the world. Though VLC media player does not have a stand (terribly expensive), it is used on many stands by the attending companies. As every year, several of the VLC media player developers were present on the floor and Derk-Jan Hartman made a photo report showing some of the uses, by companies like: HP, Cisco, Anystream, Fraunhofer, BBC and many smaller companies. It is the industries ‘dirty little secret’ you could say. Much of the IPTV based work starts by testing the IPTV streams with VLC media player. New features are sometimes even implemented in VLC media player for internal development, and then once it works, the engineers write a new program based on their experiences, which they deliver to their customers. However sometimes VLC media player even makes it into the endproduct. Big name HP clearly uses VLC media player in this product of theirs.

The VideoLAN Team is pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.9.2 - Grishenko. Resulting of 2 years of development, it features many new functionalities, including a new interface for Windows and Linux. A comprehensive list of new features can be found on our our wiki or by reading the release notes. Binary packages for Windows and Mac OS X, as well as source code tarballs are available for download. Help is available, as usual, in many places:

• The documentation (we need help keeping it up to date!)
• The forums
• The mailing lists
• IRC: #videolan on Libera Chat

We’d like to thank all our contributors, testers and users around the world for their support and help making this release possible.

VLC media player versions 0.8.6i and older suffer from multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Refer to our advisory for technical details. Fixes for these issues are available in VLC 0.9. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version. Note: a binary VLC 0.9 release should be available for Windows and Mac OS X users in a few days.

In the middle of the Wikileaks controversy over the selling of claimed Hugo Chavez emails, we found out that Wikileaks claims to have uncovered a threat letter from DTS Inc to the ECP university, our former and historical home. This letter was not addressed to the VideoLAN project. We are unable to confirm or infirm the authenticity of this document, or to comment on it at this point in time.

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6i. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6h and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the WAV demuxer. This release also includes improved audio visualizations on FreeBSD and miscellaneous bug fixes in multiple modules. More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6h. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6g (a source code release) and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the GnuTLS, libgcrypt and libxml2 libraries. VLC media player 0.8.6f and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Mozilla and ActiveX plugins, in the libpng, libid3tag, libvorbis libraries and in the Speex codec. Technical details are available in our security advisories. This update also includes reliability improvements in multiple modules. More information can be found in the release notes for 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VideoLAN Manager 0.1. VideoLAN Manager (VLMa) is a Java application which aims to provide an easy way to manage several servers running VLC to stream over a multicast network. More information at http://www.videolan.org/vlma.

The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google’s website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren’t chosen … and start coding if you were!

We are pleased to announce the release of VLC media player 0.8.6f. This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6e and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, MP4 demuxer and Cinepak codec. This release also includes improved video output on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X and compatibility with Windows 9x/ME has been restored. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version. More information can be found in our Security Advisory and in the Release Notes.

As some of you might have noticed, VideoLAN has been accepted as an official mentoring organization for Google’s 2008 edition of Summer of Code. Official student applications will be begin on the 24th and will last until the 31th. Students can apply for VLC related projects and x264 related projects. Feel free to drop by on IRC or e-mail the vlc-devel@ mailing list if you have any questions. Update: The application deadline has been extended to the 7th of April by the Google folks.

This is a bugfix release. VLC media player 0.8.6d and earlier versions suffer from security vulnerabilities in the Web interface, Subtitle demuxer, Real RTSP demuxer, SDL_image library and MP4 demuxer. Technical details are available in our advisories: SA-0801 and SA-0802. The usual collection of assorted changes and improvements can be found here. This release fully supports Mac OS X 10.3.9 once again. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VLC media player versions 0.8.6 to 0.8.6c suffer from a security vulnerability in the ActiveX plugin. More technical details are available in our advisory. An updated release of VLC is available which includes a few other fixes as well, notably better compatibility with MacOSX 10.5 Leopard. The full list of changes can be found here. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version. Note that early and broken Win32 binaries have been distributed by third party websites. Make sure to download from an official VideoLAN mirror to avoid disappointment.

Future versions of VLC media player as published by VideoLAN.org will be licensed under GPL version 2 inspite of the newly released GPL version 3. See the press release here.

The previous VLC 0.8.6c binaries for Mac OS X fail to run on non-administrator accounts due to a packaging problem. If you need to run VLC on restricted accounts, please download the package again. There is no security issue involved and no other platform was affected. Sorry for the disturbance.

VLC media player versions 0.8.6b and lower suffer from a security vulnerability in the CDDA, Vorbis, Theora and SAP plugins. More technical details are available in our advisory. An updated release of VLC is available which includes a few other fixes as well. The full list of changes can be found here. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VideoLAN was awarded a Lutèce d’Or during the latest Paris Capitale du Libre event, a technology event aimed to recognize achievements in open source development. VideoLAN received “The best Free Software development” prize for VLC media player, one year after the Mozilla Foundation received it for Firefox.

The VLC 0.8.6b Windows binaries seemed to have a few problems with Unicode support and H.264 encoding. These issues have been fixed on our main FTP and our mirrors will follow soon. Sorry for the disturbance.

From the feedback we have had so far on the latest version of VLC media player, 0.8.6a, we are proud to introduce a new bugfix release, namely 0.8.6b, aimed at fixing some annoying bugs. But with a few improvements too. It includes a new teletext subtitles decoder, new flash video decoders and Mac OS X interface improvements. It fixes many crashes, especially during fullscreen on Mac OS X, on Vista and the browser plugin. Have a look here for the full list of changes. We hope you will enjoy that new version.

The official applications, selected by VideoLAN and Google, are on Google Summer of Code Website. We have been given 7 slots for 46 applications. The choice was very hard, since many students submitted very high quality propositions. We thanks every student, accepted or not, for their application. We wish good luck to all our selected students.

VideoLAN has been accepted as an official Mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2007. We are therefore proposing to the students eligible to that program to join us. You will have to register on Google before 24 March 2007 and propose applications to our project. You can find VideoLAN’s ideas on VideoLAN’s wiki. Note that you can also propose new ideas.

VLC media player versions 0.7.0 to 0.8.6 suffer from a Format String security vulnerability in the CDDA and VCDX modules. Refer to our advisory for technical details. An updated release of VLC is available now, which also improves the Fullscreen Controller on Mac OS X. We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

Building on feedback from the 29 million downloads of VLC media player 0.8.5, we bring you version 0.8.6 with many bugfixes, as well as a couple of new features we think you will truly enjoy. Most prominent are probably Windows Media Video 9 and Flash Video. Other important changes are improved H.264 decoding, better Windows Unicode support, a Fullscreen controller and Apple Remote support for Mac OS X. **Note:**If you have problems running the Mac OS X Intel version, please download again. Have a look here for the full list of changes. Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page. You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or in #videolan on Libera Chat. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

The builds for Mac OS X Intel were still being produced on a Development Kit Intel machine from Apple. It’s time to bring that machine back to Apple and as a replacement the VideoLAN team has used the donations of our users in order to purchase a new server. The original idea was to get a MacMini, but in the configuration we wanted it, we could just as well get an iMac. Which is what we did. We received the machine last week, and now it’s setup, and keeping an eye on VLC for MacIntel. We would like to thank all the people who made donations very much. You people keep the project running.

We’d first like to thank the 13 web designers. All the designs were great and we really had a hard time choosing a winner. So here it comes: the winner is … … j0nzj’s design, congratulations! We’d especially like to thank Tombigel who was runner up with another great design.

There are many things that we would like to improve in VLC, but that we don’t, because we simply don’t have enough time. That’s why we are currently looking for some help. We have identified several small projects that prospective developers could work on. Knowledge of C and/or C++ programming will certainly be useful, but you don’t need to be an expert, nor a video expert. Existing VLC developers will be able to help you on these projects. You can find the list and some instructions on the dedicated Wiki page. Don’t hesitate to join us on IRC or on the mailing-lists. We are waiting for you !

Those of you browsing the web with text only console browsers might think that this website’s design is great, all the others wouldn’t agree (some might even dare compare it with VLC’s default interface on windows and linux). We’ve thus decided to give you the opportunity to change it. Rules are available on the wiki. All discussion and posts relative to the contest will be made in the Website discussion forum. Update: The deadline for this contest is set to Friday 14/07. You can have a look at current proposals on this wiki page.

This new Release features many improvements, including MacIntel support, a statistic system, the support of DV inputs on Linux, improvements in the Audio CD playback (CDDB), many new and improved video filters, a new AJAX HTTP interface, Winamp 2 Skins support, a Mozilla plugin on Mac OS X (PowerPC only), a new default skin… Have a look here for the full list of changes. Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page. You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or on #videolan on Libera Chat. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

In an effort to help Apple with its Intel transition, the VideoLAN team, distributor of the industry leading cross-platform media player VLC, announced its intent to drop support for the now outdated G4 and G5 based series of Mac computers. Read the full Press Release. Note: Look at the date…

VideoLAN’s main server, Ganesh, will be moving to a new home at the French ISP Free. To learn more about this move, you can read our Press Release. During the move, several VideoLAN services will be down: forum, trac, SVN, and developers website. The move should last about 4 hours, starting at 3 PM, Paris Time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Update: The server is now at its new home. Enjoy :)

The VideoLAN team will have a booth at FOSDEM in Brussels. If you have some time to spare, drop by and we’ll be happy to welcome you on our booth.

This minor update to VLC 0.8.4 fixes a few annoying bugs. OSX S/PDIF has been fixed (thanks to the donations we got for the G5), and so has A/52 over S/PDIF in Linux ALSA. MusePack is also now enabled in Windows version. Have a look here for the full list of changes. Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page. We have at least updated the BeOS package. You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or on #videolan on Libera Chat. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

This new release features many improvements including a new VLC cone, new Mac OS X wizard and extend controls dialogs, tree playlist skins2 support, HTTP interface CGI handling, linux binary codecs loader, UPnP and Bonjour service discovery, shoutcast stream forwarding, new languages … Have a look here for the full list of changes. Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page. You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or on #videolan on Libera Chat. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

Thanks to the numerous contributions we received from everywhere, we were finally able to buy a second hand dual G5 1.8 GHz. This will be used to debug sound playback on Powermacs and to host the VLC nightly builds. We particularly wish to thank MacBidouille and à Vos Macs for their important support.

This release cumulates fixes for regressions introduced in 0.3.1. You are encouraged to upgrade to this new version: download it here.

VLC 0.8.2 has been downloaded ten million times since its release, on June 26th! The whole VideoLAN team is very happy of this overwhelming result. We would like to thank all of our users, sponsors and partners, who made this result possible. Stay tuned !

The new nightly build server is now available at http://nightlies.videolan.org. We would like to thank French ISP Free for their generous donation of this Dell PowerEdge 1425 server (2 2.8GHz Xeon EMT64 CPUs, 1.5 GB RAM and 2 x 40 GB Hard drives … which we upgraded to 2 x 250 GB). Update 22 September: The nightly builds are back !

Planet VideoLAN (which uses the Planet Planet software) is an aggregation of VideoLAN-related posts on VideoLAN developers blogs. The best source for fresh VideoLAN news, previews and insights ! We currently have 3 feeds, but hope to have several more very soon.

Due to a bit of media attention on various websites, we have had a surge in donations the past 2 days. Almost 1,5 times our original target of EUR 900 has been donated. So finally we can afford to get us that G5 PowerMac that we needed. Perhaps there will even be some money left. Don’t worry, we will spent the money very wisely, we promise. There is still lots of other hardware we would like to support one day. And of course we have our usual server, conference representation and ADC costs. So please keep being kind to us and other Free and Open Source Software projects around the world. We thank you very much.

This release allows proper announcing of RTP streams, performs characters set convertion automatically when needed, selects the most appropriate SAP multicast address automatically and supports manual output interface selection. Some minor issues were fixed. These updates are in adequacy with changes in version 0.8.2 of VLC media player. You are encouraged to upgrade to this version: download it here.

This new release features many imporvements including a full playlist rewrite, improved preferences, Mac OS X Tiger compatibility, a brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin, a port to Pocket PC, mosaic picture in picture system, easy snapshots … Have a look here for the full list of changes. Binary packages and the source code are available on the VLC download page. You can get help concerning this new release on the Documentation Page, Forum, Wiki, Mailing Lists or on #videolan on Libera Chat. Remember to reset your preferences if you experience problems after upgrading from a previous version.

The VideoLAN team will be present at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany the 23 and 24 of June 2005. We will also hold a conference on VLC.

Due to a rack installation, some VideoLAN services will be down for some time today around midnight (CEST). The main website, forum, SVN and trac will be down during that time. Sorry for the inconvenience

The VideoLAN website is now running on a HP DL 385 server with two AMD opteron 2.4 GHz CPUs and 8 GB RAM. The developers, forum, trac and wiki websites will be moved to this new server shortly. The VideoLAN team would like to thank Jean-Marie Verdun from HP France for this nice donation. It will hopefully fix the many problems we’ve been having durring the last year concerning website avaibility. (Photos of the new webserver will be uploaded shortly)

The VideoLAN team won the first prize in the « Multimedia » category at international free software contest Trophées du Libre (awards list). We thus got a brand new HP laptop and a nice trophy. The laptop is already making friends in the cone community (cones watching Roland Garros).

VideoLAN T-Shirts are now available for download on the goodies page ! Thanks to Lorenzo Milito for the winning design. Use a standard inkjet printer to get one … You can also get one if you donate 12 EUR or 16 USD to the VideoLAN project. More info is available on the goodies page.

The VideoLAN team will be present at Linux Cambrésis in Northen France. We will also hold conferences on Saturday and Sunday.

Due to a network upgrade, some VideoLAN services will be down for some time today around noon (CEST). The main website and downloads will keep working, but forum, wiki, SVN and mailing lists will be down during that time. Sorry for the inconvenience

Lots of new features have found their way into VLC ! VLC is now easy to use and bug free. ( see Full Change Log ) Hurry up and download the new version here : [ links removed ] Screenshots can be found here (linux) and here (windows) and here (macosx). NOTE: Look at the posting date before downloading this version. This is an April Fool’s Joke.

The VIA and VideoLAN teams are pleased to invite you to their annual presentation day at the Ecole Centrale Paris (châtenay-Malabry, France). This year’s edition is organised with networking associations from more than a dozen French engineering schools and universities. There will be a presentation of VideoLAN in French at 9:00 a.m. and a small demonstration from 13:30 to 15:30. If you are interested, please visit http://federez.net/journees/.

The VideoLAN team will have a booth at FOSDEM in Brussels. A small presentation of VideoLAN will be held by Zorglub. If you happen to be near Brussels this week end, we’ll be happy to welcome you on our booth. **Update:**Read the report here.

You have been many to come at the CNIT, Paris La Defense to meet the VideoLAN team. We want to thank you for your multiples usages of VLC media player and all your ideas of future developement. Our hardware were partialy lent by Apple and help we to tests new features. Photos can be found here.

The VideoLAN team is about to make its very first T-shirts in world history ! Unfortunately, we lack any good design proposal. Hence, we’d like to ask all of our users with some drawing skills to come up with design proposals. The winning design will of course be used on millions of T-shirts ! (and the author might even get one for free …) Some more info here **Update:**Submissions are closed

VideoLAN will have a booth at Solutions Linux Paris 2005, which will take place at the CNIT, Paris La Defense. The VideoLAN team will welcome you at the booth.

VLC’s documentation rewrite is finished ! The complete user guide for the server aspects of VLC is now available.

See the press release here. Update : Following our request, Cinema On Web has removed the download from their web site. We would like to thank them for their quick response.

VLC’s documentation rewrite is nearing completion. We are proud to bring you the VLC Play HOWTO, a complete guide to VLC’s use as a client. Translations and the VLC streaming HOWTO will follow shortly.

VideoLAN’s main website will be down for several hours on December 4th 2004, between 13:00 and 17:00 GMT, because of a major work at our power supplier. Subversion source code repositories, online forums, mailing lists, their archives and email accounts will also be affected by the cut. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This is mainly a bug fix release. Look here for the list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo! Only source, Win32 and Mac OS X package are available at the moment, others should follow soon.

It has been a long wait, but it is finally there. A plethora of new features for everyones enjoyment. They include: faster and more flexible input layer, improved transcoding, a plugins cache to speedup VLC startup time, vastly improved subtitles, OSD and DVD support, Windows Media Video 3 support under Windows, Multipart JPEG webcam support, an audio equalizer and so much, much more. Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo! Only source, Win32 and Mac OS X package are available at the moment, others will follow soon. NOTE: This release doesn’t include DTS audio decoding support. DTS Inc. claims that distributing this software with DTS decoding capabilities is a violation of their patent EP 864 146. At DTS Inc. request, we decided, as a precautionary measure, to provisionally suspend the distribution of VLC with DTS decoding capabilities while reviewing DTS Inc. claim. This is not an acknowledgement of the validity of the claim.

We will be upgrading our Web server today. A few minutes downtime will occur near 13:00 GMT. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This release fixes a major problem with miniSAPserver where it was always announcing mp3 streams instead of mpeg-ts (vls produced) streams. It also fixes the playlistgroup parameter to be compliant with the SDP standard now. The new style of this parameter will be supported in the next version of VLC. We strongly advise all users of miniSAPserver to download and upgrade to this new version.

This new release of VLC media player features improved interfaces with support for embedded video outputs, new formats support (H261, CMML, H264, Theora alpha3, …), an improved DVB input, subtitles improvements, major stream output improvements, a VideoLAN manager to manage several streams with only one instance of VLC, and much more. Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo! Only source, Win32 and MacOS X package are available at the moment, others will follow soon.

The VIA and VideoLAN teams are pleased to invite you to their annual presentation day at the Ecole Centrale Paris (Châtenay-Malabry, France). There will be a presentation of VideoLAN in French at 10:45 a.m. with a full demonstration. If you are interested, please visit this page. To receive an invitation, send a mail to journee2004@via.ecp.fr.

We will participate to the italian hackmeeting in Genova (see http://www.hackmeeting.org/). We will hold a conference about video streaming and make demos on saturday and sunday.

The new version of VLC is coming up, and we thought we’d show you some pictures of the stuff we have been working on. First of all VLC will now be able to play all Real and Windows Media Video 3 content. A Mac OS 9 version is now available as well, and there is a new plugin to stream video to the Spirit Marsrover. **NOTE:**Look at the posting date before asking stupid questions.

Due to maintainance operations, a network downtime of about one hour will occur this day at about 12AM. Sorry for the inconvenience.

After a long time down, the VideoLAN wiki (ie, a website that everyone can change) is back up, at http://wiki.videolan.org. Its goal is to document what is not in the official documentation: the tips for each O.S, the graphical interfaces, … We hope that the contribution of VideoLAN users will help us keep a documentation as up-to-date as possible.

This new release of VLC media player is a bit more than a bug-fix release as it does in fact include many new features. IGMPv3 support (Linux and WinXP), software DTS audio decoding, MOD audio support, a few new demuxers, an OpenGL video output plugin for OSX and much more! Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo! Note: A 0.7.1a release is now available for Mac OS X users that fixes two important bugs in the 0.7.1 release.

This release of VLS fixes a bug when streaming MPEG2/PS files with several AC3 tracks, as well as compilation of VLS on Mac OS X. Go to the VLS source code download page to get this new version now !

The latest test release of VLC media player comes with DTS audio support. Try it out!

dtsdec is a free DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder. DTS is a high quality multi-channel (5.1) digital audio format in use in DVD’s and DTS audio CD’s. The code for dtsdec is still in early development stage, but it is already quite useable. VLC media player becomes the first Open Source application able to play DTS audio.

VideoLAN will have a booth at Solutions Linux Paris 2004, which will take place at the CNIT, Paris La Defense. The VideoLAN team will welcome you at the booth and invites you to its conference about reverse engineering and interoperability (February 3rd afternoon).

The VideoLAN project is very proud to announce that it has been awarded with an Open Source Merit Award by the Open Source Initiative. We are very glad to be honored in this way and will continue to strive to making the project, VLC media player and VLS, the best programs out there. You can read more about the award in these builder.com articles: article 1 article 2.

This release of VLS fixes a bug introduced in the DVB input of the previous release. Go to the VLS source code download page to get this new version now !

This major release of VLC Media Player, codenamed “Bond”, features major core enhancements, support for RTP/RTSP, new audio visual effects, supports for new formats (Speex, MPEG2 4/2/2, AAC+SBR, …), many interfaces and playlist enhancements, a new interface for MacOS X, a DirectShowinput on Win32, support for MacOS X 10.3 Panther, and much more! Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary package of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo! **Attention:**The first version of the OS X package didn’t include the Flac decoder. If you experience problems with Flac audio, please download again.

This new release of libdvbpsi fixes a few bugs and adds support for DVB subtitles descriptor.

The VideoLAN team wishes you a happy new year !

Due to a power audit, major disruptions are expected. A rescue line will be set up during the downtime, but due to a very narrow bandwidth, only the main website will be (partially) up. Sorry for the inconvenience.

This new release fixes an IPv6 bug, adds support for HTTP streams and for the SLP announcing protocol. It also uses the recent playlist group system of VLC (requires CVS or beta version of VLC). You can download the sources for this release.

This new release of the VideoLAN Server fixes two major bugs: the “program_number don’t match” bug (read this for more explanations about this fix) and a bug in the RTP option that made VLS consume unnecessary resources. Go to the VLS source code download page to get this new version now !

The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the opening of our new webforum (http://forum.videolan.org). We hope this will help improve user support, communication between VideoLAN users, and sharing of ideas. Have fun !

VideoLAN will be present at the 5th Free Software (Journées du Libre) in Lyons, France. We will have a demo of the streaming solution on our booth ! For more information about the event, see the ALDIL web site.

Due to legal problems with the GNU FDL license, the VideoLAN doc was switched to General Public License. The VideoLAN Quickstart was also removed, as it was redundant with the VideoLAN Howto.

During Apple Expo Paris 2003, VLC won the trophy for developers support ! For more details about the MacGeneration 2003 Trophies, please see this news (French, see BabelFish for an English translation).

This new release of VLC follows the previous one very closely because it mainly fixes a regression in VLC 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable. VLC 0.6.2 also features an improved MPEG TS muxer, proper PTS/DTS generation in the transcoding module, support for DVB-S/C/T cards using V4L2 API, DVD menus navigation in the wxWindows interface and fixes to the VCD navigation. Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!

This new release of VLC media player features: vorbis and mp3 audio support for the transcoding module, improved HTTP remote control interface, improved support for the Matroska container format, new subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size, improved PS muxer (it can create MPEG-1 files now and produce streams with system headers), Windows fixes (DVD support, 5.1 audio for sblive/audigy and sound on NT4), improved ALSA support and a new GTK2 interface for the “Linux on PDA” distributions! Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo! WARNING: the first version of the Mac OS X package was broken… so if you have problems under Mac OS X, download the package again!

Libdvdcss 1.2.8 is a bug-fix release with a fix for encrypted DVDs on Windows and a workaround for strange discs that report read errors seemingly at random. Libdvbpsi 0.1.3 features new DVB descriptors decoders and generators, a new SDT decoder and various fixes and enhancements. Go to the libdvdcss and libdvbpsi web pages to read the Changelog and download the sources or the Debian packages.

Minor bug fix of the miniSAPserver. Remember miniSAPserver should be used to announce the streams sent by VLS; the streams sent by VLC’s stream output can be announced by VLC itself !

VLC 0.5.3 is runner up for Apple Design Award 2003. You can see the trophy on the events page.

This major release of VLC media player features a new Video 4 Linux input, a new CDDA input, multicast IPv6 support under Windows and Mac OS X, support for Sorenson 3, a new HTTP remote control interface, improved wxWindows and skin interfaces (now available for X11), a new stream output scheme with transcoding support and much more! Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!

This new release of libdvdcss, a DVD decryption library used by VLC and many other GPL media players, has key caching enabled by default and some bugfixes. See the libdvdcss page to download the sources or the Debian packages.

This new version of the miniSAPserver offers IPv6 support both for announces and announced streams, together with the CVS version of VLC.

We have set up a Wiki (ie, a website that everyone can change) at http://wiki.videolan.org. Its goal is to document what is not in the official documentation: the tips for each O.S, the graphical interfaces, … We hope that the contribution of VideoLAN users will help us keep a documentation as up-to-date as possible.

The VideoLAN team has a booth at the Renater IPv6 conference that takes place at the University of Caen (France). There is a running demo of IPv6 streaming with VideoLAN in unicast and multicast at the booth!

The VLS user guide is back and we have a Spanish translation of the VideoLAN FAQ by Javier Varela : see the documentation page. All the VideoLAN documentation is now in Docbook XML.

This release fixes a bug in the command line parsing, adds DVD title and chapter selection with the configuration file and features a new Windows installer.

We have managed to stream from a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 (an MPEG-2 encoding card) under Linux ! It gives much better results than the Visiontech Kfir card. The chapter “Stream from an MPEG encoding card” of the VideoLAN HOWTO has been updated, see the documentation page.

This new release of the mini-SAP-server produces packets that should be conform to the RFC and adds a “port” option. Only the CVS version of VLC accepts its announces.

The new VideoLAN FAQ is available in multiple formats on the documentation page. If you have remarks about it or would like new questions to be integrated in it, post in one of the user mailing-lists.

VLC was nominated at the Free Software Trophies, an international competition aimed at promoting the development of free software, in the category “General Public”.

This release fixes a bug when trying to stream multiple DVB channels and a bug in the configure script with DVB drivers. To download this new version, go to the streaming page.

VLS for Windows is back ! The Windows port of VLS has been fixed. This new version also features the loop on broken PS files and setting the TTL under Windows. To download the sources or the Windows executable of this new version, go to the streaming page.

The new VideoLAN HOWTO is now complete and up-to-date. The chapter about the channel information service now explains how to do SAP/SDP announces with the new mini-SAP-server. See the documentation page and report any problem to the user mailing-lists.

This new release features the first steps towards skinable interfaces (only on Windows, not yet on Mac OS X or *nix). Support for playing directories and video4linux are other big new features. Many bugs have been fixed, including the problem with USB speakers on MacOS X. Look here for a complete list of changes. To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!

Karibu has designed a new skin for the Web site : enjoy !

The VIA and VideoLAN teams are pleased to invite you to their annual presentation day at the Ecole Centrale Paris (Châtenay-Malabry, France). There will be a presentation of VideoLAN in French at 10:45 a.m. with a full demonstration. If you are interested, please visit this page. To receive an invitation, send a mail to journee2003@via.ecp.fr.

This major release features a new command line interface, support for the new LinuxTV drivers (which brings support for the streaming of digital terrestial television channels), MPEG-4 TS support and many bug fixes. Because of a well hidden bug, VLS is not available under Windows any more. To download the sources of this new version, go to the streaming page.

This new release features improved audio quality (especially under Mac OS X), support for new audio formats (audio DV and FLAC), support for streaming of DivX 1/2/3, WMV 1/2 and h/i263 with VLC’s stream output and many bug fixes (including the lock-ups under Mac OS X). To download the sources or the binary packages of this new version, go to the VLC download page and click on your OS logo!

This is a bug fix release of libdvdplay, a DVD navigation library used by VLC. See the libdvdplay page to download the sources or the binaires.

This is a bug fix release of libdvdcss, a DVD decryption library used by VLC and many other GPL media players. See the libdvdcss page to download the sources or the binaires.

The VideoLAN team is proud to announce that vlc now works on YOPY/Linupy based PDAs ! Please have a look at the download page.

This is a bug-fix release of VLC for Mac OS X only: It fixes the problem with VLC starting up in a different language than your preferred language and an issue with sound missing on several files that previously worked perfectly. Download the new version of VLC for Mac OS X here.

This is a bug-fix release of VLC with a few new features : see the list of changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1 and go to the VLC section of the website to download the binaries for your OS or the sources. Unfortunately, this release doesn’t fix the audio problems under Mac OS X… but VideoLAN developers are working hard on it !

This is a major release of VLC with a a lot of great new features : see the list of changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0 and go to the VLC section of the website to download the binaries for your OS or the sources. A new VLC user guide has been released (it replaces the VLC HOWTO) and the VideoLAN Quickstart has been updated to explain the new streaming capacity of VLC (with VLC’s new stream output) : see the documentation page.

This is the first release of libdvdplay, a DVD navigation library. This library is based on a lot of Ogle’s code and features basic read and seek for DVD media, export of the DVD information (audio, subtitles, chapters, …) and export of the DVD virtual machine to the client application. See the libdvdplay page to download the sources or the binaires.

This new libdvdcss release adds key cache support, improves robustness in case of read errors and builds under Cygwin and Microsoft Visual C++. See the libdvdcss page to download the sources or the binaires.

VideoLAN will have a booth at Linux Expo Paris 2003 (4-5-6 February 2003 at the CNIT). The VideoLAN team will welcome you at the booth and invites you to its conference (Conference n°5, February 5th afternoon).

Welcome to our new web site: it was designed to be simpler and more comprehensive for end-users. There is a separate site for developers: developers.videolan.org. If you find errors, please write to webmaster@videolan.org.

The VideoLAN Quickstart has been completely rewritten. See the documentation page.

This new release uses a52dec as the default decoder for AC3 sound for a better quality, fixes a hangup in the esd plugin, allows Windows NT/2000/XP users to read DVDs without administrator privileges and fixes a few segfaults. Have a look at the ChangeLog and go to the download page.

This release allows Windows NT/2000/XP users to watch DVDs with vlc 0.4.6 without administrator privileges. Check the libdvdcss page, and have a look at the Changelog.

The pictures and the slides of the Free Software Days in Lyons are online: see the events page.

VideoLAN will be present at the Free Software Days (Journées du Libre) in Lyons (France): four developers will have a stand with a running demo of VideoLAN. This event is organized by ALDIL, and you will have all the information about the stands, the conferences and a site map on this page.

This new release brings enhancements to the BeOS and iPAQ familiar Linux ports, as well as a new RTP input. VLC is also compliant to general practice on how to embed A/52, DVD SPU and LPCM elementary streams in MPEG-2 TS. It can still read from VLS 0.3.x with the –vls-backwards-compat option. Visit the ChangeLog and the download page.

This new release adds IPv6 multicast support, language descriptors for audio and subpicture streams, and support for WinTV DVB-S. It also features an RTP output, runtime adding of programs and channels, start-up script, and is compliant to general practice on how to embed A/52, DVD SPU and LPCM elementary streams. This release requires VLC version 0.4.5 or later. Get it now from the download page!

VLMS now generates valid CRCs, and is compliant to general practice on how to embed A/52, DVD SPU and LPCM elementary streams. This release requires VLC version 0.4.5 or later. Download it now.

This new release adds IPv6 support, features unlimited channel numbers and auto-reload when the configuration file is changed. Get-it from the download page!

This release fixes many issues in the Windows port. Check the libdvdcss page, and have a look at the Changelog.

This release fixes miscellaneous portability issues, and a bug in the PMT generator which created over-complicated PMTs. Check the libdvbpsi page, and have a look at the Changelog.

This release fixes some Windows bugs and is built on the newest libdvdcss. It also features ffmpeg AVIs playing. Subtitles should be readable again under MacOS X. Visit the ChangeLog and the download page.

This release fixes the “ioctl_ReadTitleKey failed” bug reported by RPC2 drives users. Check the libdvdcss page, and have a look at the Changelog.

This release fixes the QT6 compatibility issue under MacOS X! Also includes a few BeOS improvements, and several other bugfixes. Visit the ChangeLog and the download page.

This is a small bugfix release, but also features multicast IPv6 support and new deinterlacing plugins. See the ChangeLog and the download page.

vlms works under MacOSX and Solaris and not only under Linux. Now the playlist and looping options work with TS files. Download it now

This is mostly a bugfix release with a few improvements. Support for AVI files with AC3 audio, new MMX optimizations in the video decoder an improved Win32 interface, and a lot of other bugfixes. See full ChangeLog for more information. Then go to the download page.

This release fixes a bug preventing to read DVDs when the disc’s region didn’t match the drive’s. Also, QNX support was added. Check the libdvdcss page.

The VideoLAN Team is starting today a vast test campaign on the campus of the Ecole Centrale Paris. We are streaming 13 channels at the same time using multicast on the brand new network (Gigabit Ethernet backbone and 100 Mbit/s switches on the periphery from our partner Extreme Networks) of the VIA Centrale Réseaux association. The students are invited to visit www.videolan.org/tests/ for instructions.

This is a major release which adds MPEG-4/DivX support and many enhancements for Mac OS X and Windows. It also fixes dozens of causes of crashes and freezes. See full ChangeLog for more information. Then go to the download page.

This release fixed a grave crash with some DVDs. Check the libdvdcss page!

This release has full MPEG 2 descriptors decoding and generation capabilities. Get it now from the download page.

The VideoLAN HOWTO explains how to use the complete VideoLAN solution. It deals in particular with the different streaming methods (unicast, broadcast, multicast), the issue of IPv6, the use of channel tools, Video on Demand and the design of a complete solution. It has been written by Marc Ariberti and Alexis de Lattre.

This release adds a few convenient options. It is now possible to change the TTL value and to make the vlms repeat its playlist.

This new release adds a long awaited Windows port for the vls! Get it now from the download page!

We eventually received the IBM Thinkpad as a reward for the IBM Linux Challenge. See the events page and the pictures taken during the unpacking party.

This is a bugfix release which addresses issues discovered in 0.3.0. Lots of crashes fixed, see the full ChangeLog for more information. Then go to the download page.

Jobi updated the vlc HOWTO. It is an important document for all the users of vlc.

You probably experienced problems recently to access the VideoLAN Web, FTP and CVS servers. This was due to failure of the ISP. We have set up a mirror site with Web; FTP and read-only CVS. When the ISP of the main site is down, you will be automatically redirected to the mirror site.

The VideoLAN Quickstart describes how to start using VideoLAN quickly. Basic skills on Linux and Network should be enough to understand this Quickstart. It has been written by Bill Eldridge (bill@rfa.org) and Alexis de Lattre (alexis@videolan.org).

This release fixes an amazing number of bugs and brings a lot of new features as well: Configuration file support, new input layer with IPv6 support and file format autodetection, new video output engine featuring speed increases up to 40%, VCD support under Mac OS X, multicast support and a new interface for Win32, network support under BeOS, satellite driver for WinTV Nova cards, video filters (deinterlacing, rotation, distort, image wall) and much more! Read the ChangeLog and go to the vlc download page.

This bugfix release fixes compilation issues under OpenBSD, IRIX and BeOS. You do not need to upgrade if 1.1.0 worked properly for you. Otherwise, check the libdvdcss page!

Major update, a lot of new features since 0.3.1: WinTV-Nova satellite receiver support, IPv6 support, multicast improvement, user documentation and lots of bugfixes. See changelog and download pages.

This new release of the most portable DVD descrambler is a lot more robust, includes a new descrambling method, is now in sync with the Ogle group’s own version, features an HP-UX port, and fixes many bugs. Check the libdvdcss page for more information.

This is the first official release of libdvbpsi. It features PAT and PMT decoding and generation. It is used by vls under Linux but the code is fully portable. Check the libdvbpsi page for more information.

Small update, configuration file is now a lot more simple to write but it can only support the newest vlc network syntax (udp://). See the network page for more information and download.

VideoLAN is one of the 25 winners of the IBM Linux Challenge for opensource projects developed by university students. More information on the IBM Linux Challenge website.

This release fixes an amazing number of bugs, provides a new optimized buffer manager, fast memcpy routines, MacOS X network input, BeOS CPU detection, DVD raw device support, a new libmad audio decoder, and a new aRts audio output. Read the ChangeLog or go to the download page.

Major update, a lot of new features since 0.3.0: Kfir video encoder support, plugins, file output, bugfixes. See changelog and download pages.

A bug-fix update, with numerous fixes in the Win32 and MacOS X port, and VCD support for Linux and BSD/OS. See changelog and download pages.

MacOS X, NetBSD and OpenBSD ports were added to this version, along with new methods for descrambling DVDs.

Another major update, with a new improved video decoder, a working Mac OS X port with Altivec optimized routines, HTTP input support. See changelog and download pages.

This is the first official release of the VideoLAN Server. It features MPEG1 PS, MPEG2 PS/TS, and DVD streaming, a telnet interface, and runs under Linux and Solaris. Check the vls page for more information.

The first version for more than one year. Lots of bugfixes, and support for MPEG1 streams. See the vlms page for more information.

Minor release, with overlay subtitle support.

Solaris port and BSD/OS ports were added to this version.

This version fixes lots of issues discovered in 0.2.81, but also introduces the BSD/OS port, and a few other Win32 improvements. See the usual changelog file for a more complete report on what has changed, or directly go to the download page!

We apologize for the 24 hour downtime due to a power audit.

This version comes after a huge bug hunt, almost all critical bugs have disappeared, and all important ones are gone. See the changelog file for more information. This is also the first public version to use libdvdcss. Download it now!

This new version brings lots of bugfixes, full Windows 98 and Windows 2000 support, and a faster DVD key handling. Get it on the libdvdcss page.

We apologize for the 24 hour server downtime, but our server’s motherboard fried and we experienced additional RAID array issues. Recovery was, erm, fun.

libdvdcss is the cross-platform library used by vlc, the VideoLAN Client, to access DVDs with transparent CSS decryption. It is the first library based on the vlc codebase, but others are planned.

A major step to 0.3.0, with a somewhat working Windows port, network support which was gone since 0.2.0, additional MMX and 3D Now! acceleration routines, still improved DVD support, and the usual insane amount of bug fixes. Check out the download page, and the changelog file.

IdealX, a French Open Source company, has had former VideoLAN team member Christophe Massiot work full time on the vlc API documentation. It is available on the IdealX Open Source web site.

The VLAN server is now released. Go to the download page for more information.

Release just before we break everything before freeze :-). Some bugfixes too (QNX and FreeBSD) and enhancements to the xvideo module. Check out the download page, and the changelog file.

A quick bugfix release which solves issues introduced in 0.2.71 (crash at startup on BeOS and MacOS X, and a few DVDs not working). Get your copy on the download page.

We did a port-specific page for each vlc port known to work, so that you can keep track of what is happening to your platform’s port. Currently available port pages are BeOS, Linux, MacOS X and Solaris.

This is a bugfix release which fixes most of the issues discovered in 0.2.70: no more segfaults when compiled with gcc 3.0pre and versions of gcc shipped with the latest RedHat distributions, fixed the BeOS CSS decryption, fixed a few issues in IFO parsing, fixed XVideo video output, and updated icons under Linux, BeOS and MacOS X.

After a long wait, version 0.2.70 of the VideoLAN Client is out. Amongst the news, the usual bunch of bugfixes, even better DVD support under Gnome, Gtk+ and BeOS, with on-the-fly chapter selection, language selection, a playlist, an early MacOS X port, XVideo support, network input. Download it.

Bugfixes, bugfixes, and bugfixes again, a Gtk+ interface for the Gnome-impaired, an even better DVD support, and an interface and overlay support for BeOS. Get it now.

There are so many CVS commits that we could do a daily release, so a daily VLC CVS snapshot has just been set up for people who can’t wait.

Lots of bugfixes, automatic hardware acceleration with SDL, enhanced DVD title support, return of the framebuffer, Glide and GGI plugins, various optimizations to the AC3 decoder, and, of course, the return of the BeOS port with new features like drag’n’drop and CSS decryption. Go and get it while it’s still hot!

We now have a CVSWeb interface on the site.

This new bugfix version brings plain X11 support (which was broken), enhanced CSS support, a few new interface features including drag’n’drop support, and fixes a few reported bugs. As usual, download it quickly!

Bozo “weeeeuuuuaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh, toupétéééééééé” Hurricane launched today his vls code cleaning, which means he broke everything, but also that vls is almost ready for a release.

This new unstable version brings astounding features over the stable one, like MPEG1 support, direct DVD support, DVD decryption, arbitrary seeking in the stream, pause, fast forward and slow motion, hardware YUV acceleration. Get it from the download section!

The website has been simplified a lot, because the old one was reported as confusing. Here it is, in all its valid XHTML glory.

Director of École Centrale Paris has signed the authorization to release all the VideoLAN components under the GPL.

vlc has been forked into two branches: stable (0.2.0, codenamed Onatopp) and unstable (0.2.50, codenamed Urumov). Unstable has a lot of new interesting features.

We have moved the web site to our brand new IBM server. Please let us know if anything goes wrong on the web pages.

For our beta-tests campaign on our local network, we have created a boot floppy allowing non-Linux users to boot off the floppy and load the vlc through an NFS mountage. It rocks!

VideoLAN is not vlc. It’s a whole network solution; we are testing again, on our LAN, as many improvements have been done to the three part of the project ( videolan server, vlan solution, client ) since we last tested it. We expect about 50 to 100 beta-testers. See the test section if you are a student in the Residence of the Ecole Centrale.

Redhat 7.0 users may have difficulties to build the vlc, as the version included in rh7.0 isn’t a stable one. We advice you either to take the rpm or to downgrade to gcc 2.95

A new version of the VideoLAN client fixes a few display bugs, we now have field images support and the motion compensation isn’t buggy any more. Check the download section.

The VideoLAN mini server has been released! Check the download section.

Check the download section, as well as the changelog file.

Sam wrote a buggy Makefile which prevented code to be compiled with optimizations. Now that this issue has been fixed, we got a 40% speed increase!

Check the download section, as well as the changelog file.

We did a TODO list for the 0.2.0 release. People wanting to help might pick up ideas from this list.

Check the download section, as well as the changelog file.

This mostly fixes an urgent fix for BeOS, see the download section.

We are the 12th and vlc 0.1.99d was just released. Check the download section!

The client is being pre-released today! Though the full network solution is not available yet, it already lets you watch your favorite DVD with Linux!

Some screenshots have been put online so that people know VideoLAN isn’t vaporware :)

A beta-test campaign will take place on the VIA network this week.

We’re getting closer to a release, and we are preparing the web site for featuring dowloads and bug fixes.

Most DVDs are encrypted, but some are not. To encourage this, we provide a list of known unencrypted DVDs. Any body can tell us ‘Hey, this cool DVD is unencrypted’!

We would like to thank all the visitors who showed interest in our project at the Linux Expo in Paris. Pictures of our stand will soon be available.

We got almost all the authorizations in order to distribute the VideoLAN components under the General Public License. Our school director still needs to sign one paper.

Our new custom video decoder gives us a 50% speed increase. We now can play DVDs at full framerate on a Celeron 366 using framebuffer output, which makes the vlc the fastest available software DVD player under Linux. According to Meuuh, there’re still many improvements that can be done.

Some photos of the presentation day are available on VIA’s website: http://www.via.ec p.fr/assoce/videolan-20000121/

Come to see VIA and the VideoLAN team at the Linux Expo in Paris. A map can be found here: http://www.via.ecp.fr /assoce/linuxexpo.jpeg.

The videolan client now suports the Linux framebuffer output, and has been ported to BeOS. Moreover, the mini-server now can emit a TS stream directly from a DVD drive.

A presentation day will take place on January the 21st, 2000. Everyone interested in the project is welcome to come and see it working. Find out more here!

A large scale beta-test period has just begun. Several members of the VideoLAN team have started testing the VLAN solution now that the vlanbridge works. All students of the Ecole Centrale are welcome to test the client with us, providing they have Linux and don’t mind losing the Windows network neighbourhood for the entire duration of the beta test.

A presentation day will take place in january 2000 at the Ecole Centrale, in Paris. We expect to show you our full MPEG2 solution. Find out more when the date has been chosen.

The website has been updated. It had been about one year since nothing had changed here (we were too busy coding g). Expect to find here as much as we are allowed to give away in a few weeks, starting from screenshots or hopefully more.

Thanks to Polux, who rewrote the YUV transformation in the vlc using MMX assembly, a mere P2-300 can now display about 12fps of MPEG2 video.