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VLC media player
Sign in to saveAlso known as QVLC, VideoLAN Client media player, libVLC, VLC for Android, VLC media player for iOS and iPadOS, VLC media player for Apple TV (tvOS), VLC media player for Mac
media player, streaming client, streaming media server, and audio and video converter (transcoder), free/libre and open-source cross-platform software
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- media player software
- Country of origin
- France
- Platform
- Android
- Official website
- www.videolan.org/vlc
- Image
- VLC 3.0.10 running on Linux and GNOME Shell.png
- Has use
- streaming media
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- language of work or name
- Irish
- source code repository URL
- github.com/videolan/vlc
- publication date
- 2001-02-01
- GUI toolkit or framework
- Cocoa
- copyright license
- proprietary license
- programmed in
- Objective-C
- operating system
- OS/2
- software version identifier
- 3.7.2
- Commons category
- VLC media player
- depends on software
- FFmpeg
- Commons gallery
- VLC
- inception
- 1996-00-00
- issue tracker URL
- code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues
- distributed by
- F-Droid
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/vlc
- translation contribution URL
- www.transifex.com/yaron/vlc-trans/dashboard
- social media followers
- 11555
- official wiki URL
- wiki.videolan.org
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Encyclopedic overview
Written inCore: C GUI: C++ (with Qt), Objective-C (with Cocoa), Swift, Java Bundled Extensions: Lua Operating systemWindows, Windows Phone, ReactOS, macOS, Linux, Android, Android TV, ChromeOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, Xbox system software PlatformIA-32, x86-64, ARM, ARM64, MIPS, PowerPC Available in106 languages TypeMedia player LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later with some libraries under LGPL-2.1-or-later
MPL 2.0 (VLC for iOS) Websitevideolan.org/vlc Repository code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “VLC media player” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.