VLC (VideoLAN Client) media player is cross-platform and supports Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, Crux Linux, Debian GNU (GNU’s Not Unix) Linux, Familiar Linux, Fedora Core Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, Novell’s SuSE (System und Software Entwicklung = System and software development) Linux, Turbo Linux, NetBSD (Berkeley Software Distribution), OpenBSD, FreeBSD, QNX, Zaurus and Windows CE (Windows Mobile) for Pocket PC.Ĭompatible Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, 7, 8, 2012, 8. VLC media player v3.0.16 - Windows 32-bit VLC media player VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
It can also be used as a server to stream on a (wired or wireless) high-bandwidth IP (Internet Protocol) version 4 or 6 network in multicast or unicast. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too. VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with its own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed.