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VLC media player

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.
Features Screenshots Skins Download VLC icon Download VLC Version 1.1.11  • Windows • 20MB Other Systems and Versions

Features

Simple, Powerful and Fast

Plays everything, Files, Discs (DVD, CD, VCD, Blu-Ray), Webcams and Streams

Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
MPEG-2, H.264, DivX, MPEG-4, WebM, WMV player

Completely Free, 0 Spyware, Ads or User Tracking

Works on most platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...

Media Converter and Streamer
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Screenshots

VLC media player - Linux - Gnome
VLC media player - Windows 7 - Qt Interface
VLC media player - Windows 7 - Qt Interface
VLC media player - Windows 7 - Qt Interface
VLC media player - Windows Vista - Skins Interface
VLC media player - Windows Vista - Qt Interface
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Official Downloads of VLC media player

Windows

Get VLC for Windows

Mac OS X

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Get VLC for iOS

Sources

You can also directly get the source code.

GNU/Linux

Get VLC for Debian GNU/Linux
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Other OS

Get VLC for FreeBSD
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