VideoLAN - VLC media player

About VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.
Learn more about the VideoLAN project.

Our main product is the cross-platform VLC media player.

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Updated Mac OS X packages for VLC 0.8.6c

2007-06-25

The previous VLC 0.8.6c binaries for Mac OS X fail to run on non-administrator accounts due to a packaging problem.
If you need to run VLC on restricted accounts, please download the package again. There is no security issue involved and no other platform was affected.
Sorry for the disturbance.

VLC media player 0.8.6c, VideoLAN Security Advisory 0702

2007-06-17

VLC media player versions 0.8.6b and lower suffer from a security vulnerability in the CDDA, Vorbis, Theora and SAP plugins. More technical details are available in our advisory.
An updated release of VLC is available which includes a few other fixes as well. The full list of changes can be found here.
We strongly recommend all users to update to this new version.

VideoLAN won a Lutèce d'or

2007-06-13

VideoLAN was awarded a Lutèce d'Or during the latest Paris Capitale du Libre event, a technology event aimed to recognize achievements in open source development.
VideoLAN received "The best Free Software development" prize for VLC media player, one year after the Mozilla Foundation received it for Firefox.

Windows Binaries for VLC 0.8.6b updated

2007-04-24

The VLC 0.8.6b Windows binaries seemed to have a few problems with Unicode support and H.264 encoding.
These issues have been fixed on our main FTP and our mirrors will follow soon.
Sorry for the disturbance.

Release VLC 0.8.6b media player

2007-04-19

From the feedback we have had so far on the latest version of VLC media player, 0.8.6a, we are proud to introduce a new bugfix release, namely 0.8.6b, aimed at fixing some annoying bugs. But with a few improvements too.
It includes a new teletext subtitles decoder, new flash video decoders and Mac OS X interface improvements. It fixes many crashes, especially during fullscreen on Mac OS X, on Vista and the browser plugin.
Have a look here for the full list of changes.
We hope you will enjoy that new version.

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