VLC 0.8.6 review

VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 15066K Developer: The VideoLAN Team

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VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

VideoLan Client can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Here are some key features of "VLC":
Inputs:

UDP Unicast / Multicast
RTP Unicast / Multicast
HTTP
FTP
MMS
File
DVD
VCD
Audio CD
DVB-S/C/T
MPEG encoding card
Video acquisition

Input formats:

MPEG ES/PS/TS/PVA/mp3
AVI
ASF/wmv/wma
Ogg/OGM/Annodex
MP4/MOV/3gpp
Matroska
Wav
DTS Wav
Raw DV
Raw AAC
Raw ac3/a52 audio
Raw DTS audio
FLAC audio

Video Codecs

MPEG-1
MPEG-2
DivX 1/2/3
MPEG-4/DivX 5/XviD/3ivX D4
Sorenson (SVQ 1/3)
DV
Cinepak
Theora (alpha 3)
H263/H263i
MJPEG A/B
WMV 1/2

Subtitles

SVCD
CVD
DVB
OGM
Matroska
MicroDVD
Vobsub
SubRIP
SubViewer (v1 & v2)
SSA1-4
SAMI
Vplayer

Video Filters

Deinterlace
Crop
Image Wall
Brightness-Saturation-Contrast
Rotate
Upside down
Logo overlay

Video Output

Native
GDI
X11
Xvideo
SDL
Framebuffer
ASCII art
colored ASCII art
MGA
GGI

Audio Codecs

MPEG Layer 1 and 2
MP3
AC3 (i.e. A52)
DTS
LPCM
AAC
Vorbis
WMA 1/2
ADPCM
DV Audio
FLAC
MACE
Speex

Audio Output

Native
S/PDIF
multi-channel
SDL
ESD
aRts
File

Interfaces

GTK+ (unmaintained)
Gnome (unmaintained)
QT (unmaintained)
KDE (unmaintained)
WxWidgets
Skins
HTTP/Webpage

Service Information

SAP / SDP
SLP

Misc

Command line
RTSP client
Remote Control
Infrared
Mozilla plugin
DVD Menus
Audio Visualization Effects
Localization
ID3 tags
CDDB CD info
IPv6
IGMPv3
CPU acceleration