Free Download VLC 2.0.1 for Linux

VLC description

A media player for Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, QNX, and PocketPC.

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.

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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

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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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