VLC is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. Originally written as a student project at École Centrale Paris in 2001, VLC has been downloaded billions of times and runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, ChromeOS, and many other systems.
It plays virtually any media format without needing additional codecs.
Free, open-source, cross-platform multimedia player. Plays virtually anything, anywhere.
✨ Features
MPEG, MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, FLV, WebM, OGG, FLAC, MP3 — codecs bundled, no setup needed.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, ChromeOS, BSD — same UI, same shortcuts everywhere.
Stream from HTTP, RTSP, MMS, UDP. Play network shares, transcode and re-broadcast.
Built-in transcoder. Convert files between formats, extract audio, capture screen to disk.
Lua extensions, skinnable interface, command-line control — power-user features built in.
