A media player designed to do one thing perfectly: play your files, however they were made.
VLC uses your graphics card to decode demanding video formats smoothly, keeping playback fluid even on modest hardware.
Stream network shares, internet radio and live video, or cast playback straight to a Chromecast or DLNA-enabled TV.
Convert video and audio between formats or save a live stream to disk using VLC's built-in conversion tools.
Change the entire look of the player with skins, or fine-tune audio and video filters to match your preferences.
VLC media player has been refined for more than two decades by a global community of volunteer developers, and that experience shows in details most players overlook: frame-accurate seeking, gapless audio playback, and automatic detection of subtitle files placed in the same folder as your video.
Because VLC is open source, its features are shaped by real user needs rather than a marketing roadmap. Anyone can inspect the source code, suggest improvements, or build a custom version, which is part of why VLC keeps working reliably across so many different systems and file formats.
VLC has been translated into more than one hundred languages by volunteer contributors, and its interface, keyboard shortcuts and menus can all be customized to match the way you actually watch and listen to media.