VLC media player

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Last update: Dec 24, 2022

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Overview

VLC media player

VLC is a libre and open source media player and multimedia engine, focused on playing everything, and running everywhere.

VLC can play most multimedia files, discs, streams, devices and is also able to convert, encode, stream and manipulate streams into numerous formats.

VLC is used by many over the world, on numerous platforms, for very different use cases.

The engine of VLC can be embedded into 3rd party applications, and is called libVLC.

VLC is part of the VideoLAN project and is developed and supported by a community of volunteers.

The VideoLAN project was started at the university École Centrale Paris who relicensed VLC under the GPLv2 license in February 2001. Since then, VLC has been downloaded billions of times.

License

VLC is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license. On some platforms, it is de facto GPLv3, because of the licenses of dependencies.

libVLC, the engine is released under the LGPLv2 (or later) license.
This allows embedding the engine in 3rd party applications, while letting them to be licensed under other licenses.

Platforms

VLC is available for the following platforms:

Windows (from 7 and later, including UWP platforms and all versions of Windows 10)
macOS (10.10 and later)
GNU/Linux and affiliated
*BSD and affiliated
Android (4.2 and later), including Android TV and Android Auto
iOS (9 and later), including AppleTV and iPadOS
Haiku, OS/2 and a few others.

Not all platforms receive the same amount of care, due to our limited resources.

Nota Bene: The Android app and the iOS app are located in different repositories than the main one.

Contributing & Community

VLC is maintained by a community of people, and VideoLAN is not paying any of them.
The community is composed of developers, helpers, maintainers, designers and writers that want this open source project to thrive.

The main development of VLC is done in the C language, but this repository also contains plenty of C++, Obj-C, asm and Rust.

Other repositories linked to vlc are done in languages including Kotlin/Java (Android), Swift (iOS), and C# (libVLCSharp).

We need help with the following tasks:

coding
packaging for Windows, macOS and Linux distributions
technical writing for the documentation
design
support
community management and communication.

Please contribute :)

We are on IRC. You can find us on the #videolan channel on Libera.chat.

Contributions

Contributions are now done through Merge Requests on our GitLab repository.

CI and discussions should be resolved before a Merge Request can be merged.

libVLC

libVLC is an embeddable engine for 3rd party applications and frameworks.

It runs on the same platforms as VLC (and sometimes on more) and can provide playback, streaming and converting of multimedia files and streams.

libVLC has numerous bindings for other languages, like C++, Python and C#.

Support

Links

Some useful links that might help you:

Source Code sitemap

ABOUT-NLS          - Notes on the Free Translation Project.
AUTHORS            - VLC authors.
COPYING            - The GPL license.
COPYING.LIB        - The LGPL license.
INSTALL            - Installation and building instructions.
NEWS               - Important modifications between the releases.
README             - Project summary.
THANKS             - VLC contributors.

bin/               - VLC binaries.
bindings/          - libVLC bindings to other languages.
compat/            - compatibility library for operating systems missing
                     essential functionalities.
contrib/           - Facilities for retrieving external libraries and building
                     them for systems that don't have the right versions.
doc/               - Miscellaneous documentation.
extras/analyser    - Code analyser and editor specific files.
extras/buildsystem - Different build system specific files.
extras/misc        - Files that don't fit in the other extras/ categories.
extras/package     - VLC packaging specific files such as spec files.
extras/tools/      - Facilities for retrieving external building tools needed
                     for systems that don't have the right versions.
include/           - Header files.
lib/               - libVLC source code.
modules/           - VLC plugins and modules. Most of the code is here.
po/                - VLC translations.
share/             - Common resource files.
src/               - libvlccore source code.
test/              - Testing system.

Comments

Update subsurf.c
Bugfixes:

ensure that all elements in the subtitle note are processed (lines: 973,974,981,1005,1252-1260)

Features:

implement draw features as proposed by the USF specification (lines: 832-962, 1053-1218) ... +-shape (0..N)* +-polygon (0..N)* <points +-points (2..N)* posx="x" @-pos x (1)* posy="y" /> @-pos y (1)* <rectangle +-rectangle (0..N)* posx="x" @-pos x (1)* posy="y" @-pos y (1)* width="width" @-width (1)* height="height" /> @-height (1)* <point +-point (0..N)* posx="x" @-pos. x (1)* posy="y" @-pos. y (1)* diameter="diameter" /> @-diameter(1)* ...
opened by ghost 7
Create vrt.lua

Open VRT videos in VLC (www.vrt.be)

This is the very first time I'm adding something on Github, and I have no scripting experience whatsoever. Please advise if this can be added and/or if modifications are needed.

opened by midas02 6
Cleanup: Minor package and API update to snapcraft.yaml

These updates were after trying to get native theming support for the snaps to work based on the changes done on the Thunderbird and LibreOffice snaps.

I tried adding a theming fix in data-dir work around as part of https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/5395 and the themes were successfully loaded into the snap.

The issue is that it appears to not work as I don't think vlc uses libgtk-3-0 to be able to use GTK-3 themes. I tried various environment variables suggested by various forums to get QT to use the gtk themes but none of them really worked.

Whilst using the vlc docker to build the snap, certain aspects of the snap appear to be outdated. For example, prepare, build and install has now been deprecated in trade of override-build.

That and vlc snap appeared to be pulling pacakges from the container which may soon be deprecated too.

If the snap interface theming support evolves, I will try again then.

opened by Kedstar99 5
Add software volume support to iOS audiounit

Is there any reason why this was never implemented on iOS/tvOS?

I need this for my radio app (to fade out music when playing with sleep timer). I tested this in my app and it works. If there is no specific reason why you wouldn't want this feature on iOS then I hope you'll consider merging this pull request.

opened by mikrohard 4
Correcting Swedish desktop description

Correcting Swedish translation of desktop name to be in style of other FOSS-translations, that is [program name description noun] instead of the other way round (as was).

opened by hanklank 4
adding useful 3D parties

ZeBobo5/Vlc.DotNet is very easy to use .Net component, I'm using it for my enterprise projects. I think it may be profitable for users to introduce useful VLC 3D parties here.

opened by zandiarash 2
Create romanian_translation_vlc_pot

-translated 1000+ words from english to romanian -the translation is on crowdin too -my link for crowdin activity is https://crowdin.com/profile/andadi/activity -my steemit profile link https://steemit.com/@andadi -I commited this translation here too as part of utopian rules, check my translation here or on crowdin

opened by AndaxDi 2
Fixed misinterpreted FTP upload error message

Changed error text when uploading logs to FTP fails to something more friendly, to avoid things like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/softwaregore/search?q=VLC&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all

opened by crackerjam 2
Pause Spotify when video playback starts

Spotify does not have an API to query it for whether or not it is currently playing something, which means we can’t resume Spotify playback after video has finished (since we do not know if we actually did stop Spotify, or if it was already in a stopped state).

I was unsure about the last argument to add_bool.

opened by sorbits 2
addon AutoSubtitles in lua

VLSub is a VLC extensions to search and download subtitles from opensubtitles.org. The extension can search either based on the video hash or its IMDB title.

The extension can download subtitles in about 49 languages, including English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and more.

The extension should work with VLC 1.1.0+ (I've tested it with 1.1.x and 2.0) on Linux, Windows or Mac OSX.

opened by chintan9 2