Thursday, July 4, 2013
VLC media player is a highly portable
multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs,
and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.
It can also be used as a server to stream in
unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC can play:
- MPEG-1,
MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
- DVDs,
VCDs, and Audio CDs
- From
satellite cards (DVB-S)
- Several
types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP,
MMS, etc.
- From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)
