VLC media player

VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a written by the video vln project. VLC s available for desktop , such as , and  VLC is also available on  such as Apple's  and Microsoft Windows 

VLC media player supports many audio and video  methods and including dvd video cd video and streaming. It is able to stream media over computer and to Multimedia files.

The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The  library from the project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly uses its own and demuxers. It also has its own protocol implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on by using the DVD decryption library.

The VideoLan software originated as an academic project in 1996. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client" when VLC was a client of the VideoLAN project. But since VLC is no longer merely a client, that no longer applies

It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos from satellite dishes across a campus network. Originally developed by students at the  it is now developed by contributors worldwide and is coordinated by videolan a non-profit organization.

Rewritten from scratch in 1998, it was released under  on 1 February 2001, with authorization from the headmaster of the  The functionality of the server program, VideoLan Server (VLS), has mostly been subsumed into VLC and has been deprecated. The project name has been changed to VLC media player because there is no longer a client/server infrastructure.

The cone icon used in VLC is a reference to the collected by École Centrale's Networking Students' Association. The cone icon design was changed from a hand drawn low resolution icon to a higher resolution CGI-rendered version in 2006, illustrated by Richard Øiestad.

In 2007 the VLC project decided for  reasons to not upgrade to the just released 

After 13 years of development, version 1.0.0 of VLC media player was released on 7 July 2009.

Work began on VLC for in 2010 and it is available for Android devices on the  store since 2011.

In September 2010 a company named "Applidium" developed with endorsement of the VLC project for ios a VLC port under GPLv2, which was accepted by Apple for their App store. In January 2011, after VLC developer Rémi Denis-Courmont's complaint to Apple about the between the VLC's GPLv2 and the App store's policies, the VLC had been withdrawn from the Following, the VLC authors began to relicense in October 2011 the engine parts of VLC from the GPLv2  to to achieve better  for instance with the In July 2013 the VLC application could then resubmitted to the ios under the

Version 2.0.0 of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012.

As of 2012 VLC topped the overall download count;as of 2013 more than 1.3 billion downloads had occurred.

A version for the was released on 13 March 2014. Support and possibly t are also in development.

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