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 (GPL-2.0)
Application typeApplication types
EUPlatforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Windows Mobile
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- HUAWEI AppGallery
- iPad
- AppImageHub
- Apple Watch
- Snapcraft
- Google Chrome
- Apple TV
- Flathub
- PortableApps.com
- F-Droid
- Kindle Fire
- Haiku
- Android TV
- Homebrew
- Chocolatey
- Xbox
- OpenAPK
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Recent News
- Fla published news article about VLC Media Player
VLC 3.0.23 targets Windows fixes, security updates, and audio infoVLC media player 3.0.23 focuses on resolving Windows issues related to image display, security warn...
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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...
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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,...
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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
cold-startup time can take 30 seconds(!) on some devices and it doesn't support selecting multiple tracks, which sucks when you want to review a recording that has different audio split across different channels.
If you want to play all tracks you have to hijack its streaming function to play every single track of every type at once by, for example, dropping a video file onto a .bat file with the following content (remember to add vlc to path on windows): start "" "vlc" --sout-all --sout #display %1
Selecting different individual tracks aside, According to one of the devs adding even a button that simply makes all tracks play (what that command already does) is apparently "too fringe case" to implement https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=145140
It will run anything and everything however, so I recommend it as a fallback at least.
only 2 stars because though I really want to like it, this abhorrently slow startup and single track limitation makes it very annoying to use.
Best free multimedia player.
Works great on android , linux. Really not sure what more to say.
I love this software, i'm using this from 10 years.
I tried a bunch of other media players to see what the hype was about, but I ended up coming right back. Once you try the alternatives, you realize how incredibly smooth VLC is in comparison. No reason to use anything else