It is a free cross-platform media player for Linux.
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Our main software is the cross-platform VLC Media Player.

We are also the home of x264 and many other projects, like DVBlast, libdvdcss or VLMa.

About VLC
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, physical media (DVDs, VCD, Audio-CD), TV Capture cards and many network streaming protocols.

It can also convert media files, transcode and act as a streaming server over unicast or multicast and IPv4 or IPv6. It doesnt need any external codec, program or codec pack to work. you can free download VLC Media Player for Linux 1.0.2 now.