VLC Media Player
Enjoy seamless media experiences with this cross-platform, ad-free player supporting multimedia files, DVDs, streaming, Chromecast, 4K, and no tracking. Customize with themes, play offline, and get privacy-focused service without registration. Fully extensible by plugins.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- AppImageHub
- Apple Watch
- Snapcraft
- Google Chrome
- Apple TV
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- F-Droid
- Kindle Fire
- Haiku
- Android TV
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
Features
Properties
- Customizable
- Support for Themes
- Optimal performance
- Privacy focused
Features
- Ad-free
- Video Converter
- Video playback
- Built-in Media converter
- Support for subtitles
- Integrated Codecs
- Cross-Platform
- Audio Recording
- Internet Radio
- Compatibility Layer
- Media Center
- Media Streaming
- Multiple languages
- Replay Gain
- Playback speed control
- Media Server
- Playlists management
- Works Offline
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Playlists
- No registration required
- Automatic subtitles download
- Support for 4K
- Video file conversion
- Support for Hotkeys
- Visualize Music
- Chromecast Support
- Dark Mode
- Portable
- Lossless Audio
- Decentralized
- File Tagging
- Hardware Accelerated
- No Tracking
- Support for FTP
- Low memory usage
- In built video player
- Built-in Equalizer
- Audio playback
- 360 Videos
- Sync Audio & Video
Integrated Last.fm scrobbler
Import from Steam- Voice pitch visualization
- Network Traffic Obfuscation
- Built-in subtitle search
Google Drive integration- Automatic conversion to multiple formats
- Automatic Tagging
- Musicbrainz support
Tags
- Resume video after shutdown
- Video Player
- TV Shows
- Scripting language
- streaming-server
- free-media-player
VLC Media Player News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about VLC Media Player
VLC 3.0.22 adds Dark Qt Mode, AMD Frame Rate Doubler, and Codec improvementsVLC 3.0.22 arrives after eighteen months of development and introduces a dark palette option for th...
- Maoholguin published news article about VLC Media Player
VLC latest RC1 update brings Arm64 builds for Windows 11 and fixes Windows XP SP3 supportVLC Media Player has released its first release candidate update in a year with version 3.0.22 RC1,...
- POX published news article about VLC Media Player
VLC teases offline and real-time AI-powered subtitles and translation at CES 2025At CES 2025, VLC Media Player showcased a groundbreaking feature: automatic AI-powered subtitling a...
Recent activities
cliffordaustin added VLC Media Player as alternative to Vidi - Universal 4k Player for Mac
codeforce1159 added VLC Media Player as alternative to SlimPlayer
POX added VLC Media Player as alternative to Vidi- OrdinaryPerson reviewed VLC Media Player
If you are looking for a good media player just "works" on every OS, this is it. If you are looking for a really good media player for your OS, this is not it at all. Also UI is just sucks, i just hate that cone.
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What is VLC Media Player?
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
Features:
Simple, fast and powerful media player. Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.
Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed: MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...
VLC Media Player information
Developed by
VideoLAN Licensing
Open Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.5Alternatives
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8 news article related to VLC Media PlayerSupported Languages
- English
- Afrikaans
- Arabic
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Khmer
- Catalan; Valencian
- Corsican
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Faroese
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Latvian
- Malay
- Marathi
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sardinian
- Chinese
- Sinhala, Sinhalese
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
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- 3.65 avg rating
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- 17,102 Stars
- 5,590 Forks
- 3 Open Issues
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Comments and Reviews
VLC media is a standard-setter for cross-platform, open-source, reliable, dependable, configurable media players. No doubt. Except one tiny thing: Recently... VLC has gotten slow. Slow on Mac, slow on Linux, and... a little (not much) on Windows. (At least Windows 10.) VLC deserves respect of a kind very few apps do. It's free, open source AND... at the time of writing (5th March 2017) it's beating Dropbox (nasty sh*t that that is - and it is, trust me!) as the most popular app for Windows on this site. That takes some doing. It really does. But... here's the thing...: If ultimate customizability isn't so important to you, try MPV. Like VLC, MPV is open source, free and all the rest. But it's likely to load faster and play your thing with fewer glitches and hitches. Until you need the subtitles to be 5 pixels from the left edge of the screen and 8 ms offset from the audio. Then it's back to VLC.
This is the well define answer and accourding my view is information is satisfied.
Probably the heavyweight of Media Players, but on my old laptop I get "choppy" audio. Have made many changes but still no good. Rather than waste more time with VLC I've returned to using what works for me, and that's Media Player Classic - Home Cinema and sometimes MPC-BE (Black Edition). Both work "out of the box" without giving me a headache.
[Edited by maxbramble, February 12]
agree
If you are looking for a good media player just "works" on every OS, this is it. If you are looking for a really good media player for your OS, this is not it at all. Also UI is just sucks, i just hate that cone.
Gold standard, works on every platform I've tried it on. Nothing but respect for the owners who keep it free and OS.
I use VLC to open all the media files, I love this free player!! And it has lots of advanced features, everytime I learn a new thing I get amazed about this product.
I've been using this app for more than a decade now, and I'm glad to say that it is as reliable as ever.
Whatever feature you need in a media player, VLC has it.
the only media player i have needed for years. Everyone should use VLC!