VLC media player is a multimedia player for various audio and video formats as 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 doesn't need any external codec or program to work.

• UDP/RTP Unicast
• UDP/RTP Multicast
• HTTP / FTP
• MMS
• TCP/RTP Unicast
• File
• DVD
• VCD
• Audio CD (without DTS)
• MPEG encoder
• Video acquisition

• 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)
• Standard MIDI
• Creative Voice

Security updates

• Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow
• Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem
• Fixed MP4 integer overflows
• Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities

• The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
• Improved video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
• Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
• Close access on network timeout
• Fix some problems with AAC decoder packetizer