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VLC media player

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VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as Blu-ray, DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. VLC can also convert, capture/record and be used as a server to stream video.

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3.0.24 (September 22, 2026)



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Software License

Free software / FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)



Supported operating systems

Windows Win Mac OS Mac Linux Linux



More information and other downloads

Download Open in VLC, it is a browser extension to detect and extract streams and send media links to VLC media player or any other media player.

Download VLC Blu-ray plugin here, it allows to you watch encrypted blu-rays directly with VLC 2.0+.

Download VLC media player nightly builds here ( http://nightlies.videolan.org/ )



Version history / Release notes / Changelog / What's New


Changes between 3.0.23 and 3.0.24:
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Codecs:
* Use FFmpeg 8.1 (upgraded from 4.4)
* Support APV decoder (FFmpeg 8)
* Support Atrac3/Atrac9 decoding
* Remove schroedinger support for dirac in favor of avcodec
* Fix Speex leaks and packetization issues
* Fix WebVTT CSS parsing and error handling
* Fix FLAC and HEVC packetizer edge cases
* Fix AudioToolbox MIDI synthesizer crash on macOS 26+

Demuxers:
* Add support for CEA-708 closed captions in MP4
* Expose ID3v2 metadata in MPEG demuxer
* Improve subtitle language detection from filenames and SSA/ASS metadata
* Fix several MKV crashes, leaks, hangs and malformed file handling issues
* Fix AVI hang with zero-sized strd chunks
* Fix MP4, MPEG-TS, Ogg, RealAudio and subtitle demuxing edge cases

Access:
* Switch RIST input and output to librist, with main and simple profile support
* Add SRT listener mode support
* Add SFTP public key authentication options and ED25519 hostkey support
* Update SMB2 share enumeration
* Don't ship RealRTSP plugin (build disabled for all configurations)

Service Discovery:
* Include Chromecast model in mDNS renderer names
* Fix IPv6 addresses in Bonjour service URLs

Video Output:
* Fix Direct3D11 adjust filter and texture leaks
* Fix MediaCodec crop validation
* Super Resolution scaling with Moore Threads GPUs

Windows:
* Support NV12 DirectShow capture
* Improve UWP build and runtime compatibility
* Fix mmdevice crashes, leaks and deadlocks
* Generate debug symbols by default for Windows packages

Interface:
* Qt: Fix default open dialog location
* Qt: Fix effects window geometry saving
* Qt: Improve hotkeys dialog strings

Stream Output:
* Disable HEVC for original Chromecast devices

Security:
* Switch to a new RSA-4096 key for update verification
* Fix multiple OOB, integer overflow, double-free and use-after-free issues
* See https://www.videolan.org/security/

Misc:
* Add Flatpak build support
* Fix Audio EQ filter High Frequency parameter
* Fix artwork preparser crash when artwork title is null
* Fix LibVLC media list player race
* Remove NPAPI browser plugin

Lua:
* Remove broken youtube.lua plugin

Windows:
* Fix slow startup on Windows when Daylight Saving Time changes (#29685)

Contrib:
* Update libarchive to 3.8.8
* Update libass to 0.17.5
* Update aom to 3.15.0
* Update amf to 1.5.2
* Update asdcp to 2_13_2
* Update chromaprint to 1.6.0
* Update dav1d to 1.5.4
* Update faad to 2.11.2
* Update flac to 1.4.2
* Update FFmpeg to 8.1.2
* Update freetype to 2.14.3
* Update gcrypt to 1.12.2
* Update glew to 2.3.1
* Update gme to 0.6.5
* Update gnutls to 3.8.13
* Update gpg-error to 1.61
* Update harfbuzz to 14.2.1
* Update jpeg to v9f
* Update libbluray to 1.4.1
* Update libebml to 1.4.6
* Update libmad to 0.16.14
* Update libmicrodns to 0.2.0
* Update libtasn1 to 4.21.0
* Update libxml2 to 2.15.3
* Update matroska to 1.7.2
* Update mpg123 to 1.33.6
* Update mysofa to 1.2.1
* Update nettle to 3.10.2
* Update nfs to 6.0.2
* Update openjpeg to 2.5.4
* Update png to 1.6.58
* Update protobuf to 3.4.1
* Update opus to 1.6.1
* Update shout to 2.4.6
* Update SDL to 3.4.10
* Update SDL_image to 3.4.4
* Update smb2 to 6.1
* Update srt to 1.5.6
* Update ssh2 to 1.11.1
* Update upnp to 1.14.20
* Update vncclient to 0.9.15
* Update vorbis to 1.3.7
* Update x265 to 4.1
* Update zlib to 1.3.2
* Update zvbi to 0.2.45
* Add librist 0.2.20
* Switch mfx Library to Intel's vpl 2.13.0

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All features


VIDEO
Rewritten video output core and modules, allowing subpicture blending in GPU.
Shader support in the OpenGL output, for colorspace conversion, including 10bits.
New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2.
New debanding, grain, denoising and anti-flickering filters.
New deinterlacing filter, including an Inverse Telecine algorithm.

AUDIO
New resamplers for higher quality audio.
New dynamic range compressor and karaoke filters.
Simplification of the audio core for faster processing.
New audio outputs for iOS, Android and OS/2.

FORMATS
Multi-threaded decoding for H.264, MPEG-4/Xvid and WebM.
Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs.
Rewritten support for images, including jpeg, png, xcf, bmp...
Important changes in RealVideo and Real Format support.
CrystalHD cards and Android OpenMAX support for hardware decoding.

INPUT AND DEVICES
Experimental support for BluRay discs:
- Menus are deactivated in this release (will come soon).
- AACS and BD+ DRM libraries and keys are not shipped, for legal reasons.
Support for SDI capture cards and QTKit devices.
Support for new adaptive streaming protocols, like HLS and DASH.

FOR MAC USERS
Completely new, single window interface:
- Available in 2 colors: Lion grey and QTX black.
- Extensions support and better Lion integration.
Support for all QTKit devices through qtcapture and qtsound modules.
Continued support for X 10.5 and PPC users (1080p and ProRes on Dual-G5!).

FOR ANIME FANS
Vastly improved MKV demuxer.
Rewritten linked segments and ordered chapter files support.
Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV.
Rewritten seeking support in cue files.
Various ASS subtitles improvements.

FOR PROFESSIONAL USERS
Support for ProRes 422 and 4444, AVC/Intra.
Support for Jpeg-2000 and DNxHD/VC-3 in 10bits.
Support for EBU subtitles (stl) and EIA-608.
SDI and HD-SDI card support for input on Linux.
New Dirac/VC-2 encoder, faster than the previous one.

FOR DEVELOPERS
libVLC, libVLCcore and libcompat have switched from GPL to LGPLv2.1+.
New libVLC examples are available: media player, photobooth and mediainfo clones.
New JSON requests on the web interface to control running VLC instances.
Implementation of the MPRIS2 interface to control media players.
VLC's web plugins have been rewritten for better integration and stability in all browsers.




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Rating by 习近平 on Nov 27, 2025 Version: 3.0.21 OS: Windows 11 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Yes BeeGee, you are useless. Indeed.

Review by AC/DC on Oct 20, 2022 Version: 3.0.17.4 OS: Windows 10 Ease of use: 10/10 Functionality: 10/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 10/10




Absolutely Useless

Review by BeeGee on Oct 18, 2022 Version: Most Recent OS: Linux Ease of use: 1/10 Functionality: 1/10 Value for money: 1/10 Overall: 1/10




I've been using the average VLC player for around 10 years. I think it's the best open source player there is, it even has a series of tools that other players lack, such as subtitle and audio track synchronization. However, one thing that I believe can be better is playing HEVC videos for older computers (in my case I have a computer with an Intel Celeron E3400 @ 2.60GHz processor and 8 gb of ddr3 ram memory), and the 720p and 1080p videos encoded in HEVEC, whether mkv or mp4, simply freeze when we move forward or backward (for example, from MPC BE, it has settings, where I can play a video in hevec, without crashes, as well as a video in H264), I've already tried a series of settings so that I could optimize VLC for HEVC playback cases but without success. In addition, it still (like most players"), does not play xHE-AAC audio, which I believe is not a negative point, since the codec is new. efforts, because for me, VLC is one of the top 3 free media players.

Review by Diego Souza on Jul 15, 2022 Version: 3.0.17.4 OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10 Functionality: 7/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10




The current version still is not capable of *properly* playing x264 10bit HDR content. The program still doesn't have the needed decoder to play the HDR encoded video file to produce the proper colour & contrast. Still waiting for a program update that looks after this.

Review by Tony on Sep 22, 2021 Version: 3.0.16 OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10 Functionality: 9/10 Value for money: 10/10 Overall: 8/10


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