VLC media player is a free of charge available media player application by the VideoLAN development. It is a extremely convenient multimedia player, encoder, as well as streamer sustaining countless audio as well as video codecs as well as file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, with a range of streaming protocols. It is capable to stream in excess of networks and to transcode multimedia files as well as save them into different different formats. VLC used to stand for "VideoLAN Client", but that meaning is criticized. It is one of the mainly platform- self-governing players accessible, with versions for BeOS, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris as well as Windows CE, and is extensively used with more than 50 million downloads for version 0.8.6.VLC make use of a large number of free decoding as well as encoding libraries. Many of its codecs are offered by the libavcodec codec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mostly its own muxer as well as demuxers. It also gained difference as the former player to sustain playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library. Version 0.8.6, which adds sustains for WMV version 9 as well as boosts support for H.264, was released on 10 December 2006. The existing version 1.0 was being offered on July 9th 2009.