VideoLAN.org - (Open Source)
VLC Media Player is one of the most used media player that supports most o the video and audio formats that deserves to be chisen when it comes to play a movie.
VLC Media Player is a famous open source media player. It can play almost all formats of video and audio including HD: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, AAC, MP3, OGG, AVI, WMV , MOV, VCD, SVCD, DVD, etc and network streams proposed for WebTV, all without having to download anything else. It comes with all the necessary codecs: Flash, Dirac, Atrac3, H.264 PAFF, APE audio, RealVideo, VC-3, Fraps and more.
The application also supports the configuration server as a unicast or multicast on IPv4 or IPv6 networks.
VLC Media Player enjoys many hardware acceleration options, including via the graphics card as well as optimization for multi-core systems (for decoding codecs such as H.264, WebM or Xvid) .
On the same principle as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, VLC handles extensions and skins . There are two types of extensions , the first objective will be to retrieve video content , audio and subtitles on the Internet , the latter offer the possibility to access additional contextual information.
VLC gets also to BluRay, which is, for the moment only partially managed (no support for menus).
Function post-processing optimizes file playback for an optimal picture and sound. In addition, it includes a video converter or audio file, audio and video in real time filters, video streaming function, a wide range of settings that improves the rendering of the image and sound.
# Audio output:
- Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
- Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
- Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
- audio devices on OS X
- Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
- Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
# Demuxers:
- Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
- Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
# Decoders:
- Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
- Fix playback of some HEVC samples
# Video filters:
- Fix crash on deinterlace selection
# Qt interface:
- Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
- Improve A-B loop control
- Fix album art update when changing media
# Mac OS X interface:
- Add a language option in the interface
- Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
- Iix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
- Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
- Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
- Fix crash when closing window without decorations
- Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
# Win32 installer:
- Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
# Translations:
- Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer, Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations