VCL is recommended 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. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

* It is a free cross-platform media player
* It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
* It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, …)

Input formats:

* MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)
* ID3 tags
* AVI
* ASF / WMV / WMA
* MP4 / MOV / 3GP
* OGG / OGM / Annodex
* Matroska (MKV)
* WAV (incuding DTS)
* Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52
* Raw DV
* FLAC
* FLV (Flash)

Input media:

* UDP/RTP Unicast
* UDP/RTP Multicast
* HTTP / FTP
* MMS
* File
* DVD 1
* VCD
* SVCD 2
* Audio CD (without DTS)
* MPEG encoder 3
* Video acquisition

Video:

Decoders:

* MPEG-1/2
* DIVX (1/2/3)
* MPEG-4, DivX 5, XviD, 3ivX D4
* H.264
* Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
* DV
* Cinepak
* Theora (alpha 3)
* H.263 / H.263i
* MJPEG (A/B)
* WMV 1/2
* WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1 4, 5
* Indeo Video v3 (IV32)

Subtitles:

* DVD 6
* SVCD / CVD
* DVB
* OGM
* Matroska
* Text files (MicroDVD, SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer)
* Vobsub

Filters:

* Deinterlace
* Cropping
* Image wall
* Image adjust
* Rotate/Mirror
* Logo overlay
* Magnification
* Image distortion
* Bluescreen
* RSS/Atom feeds

Outputs:

* Native DirectX, GDI
* SDL
* ASCII Art

Audio:

Decoders:

* MPEG Layer 1/2
* MP3
* AC3 – A/52
* DTS
* LPCM
* AAC
* Vorbis
* WMA 1/2
* WMA 3 7
* ADPCM
* DV Audio
* FLAC
* QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime)
* MACE
* Real Audio 8
* Speex

Filters:

* Visualization effects
* Equalizer

Outputs:

* Native DirectX WaveOut
* S/PDIF DirectX WaveOut
* Multi-channel DirectX WaveOut
* SDL

Streaming:

Interfaces and control:

* Default WxWidgets
* Qt 4
* Skins
* Web
* Telnet
* Command line

Miscellaneous:

* SAP/SDP announces
* Bonjour protocol
* Mozilla/Firefox plugin
* ActiveX plugin
* SVCD Menus
* Localization
* CD-Text 10
* CDDB CD info 11
* IPv6
* IGMPv3 Win XP
* CPU acceleration 13

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