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VLC media player 2012
VLC media player (also known as VLC) is a highly portable free and open-source media player andstrming media server written by the LAN project. It is a cross-platform media player, with versions for , OS X, GNU/Linux, Android, BSD, Solaris, iOS, Syllable,


BeOS,MorphOS, QNX and eComStation.[7]
VLC media player supports many audio and compression methods and file formats, including-, and strming protocols. It is able to strm over computer network and totrans multimedia files.[7]

VLC used to stand for LAN Client, but since VLC is no longer simply a client, that initialism no longer applies.[8][9]

The default distribution of VLC includes a large of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC’s cs are provided by thelibavc library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers and its own protocols.

It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted s on Linux and OS X by using the libcss decryption library.