VideoLAN - VLC media player

About VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free and open source software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.
Learn more about the VideoLAN project.

Our main product is the cross-platform VLC media player.

About VLC media player

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
It doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

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VideoLAN Security Advisory 0807

2008-08-30

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.

VLC media player 0.8.6i release

2008-07-12

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.

VLC media player 0.8.6h release

2008-06-06

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.

VLMa release

2008-05-13

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.

Google Summer of Code 2008 (2)

2008-04-21

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!

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