VLC
Multimedia player and streamer
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources. . VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP. . VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional plugins:
- vlc-plugin-access-extra
- vlc-plugin-fluidsynth
- vlc-plugin-jack
- vlc-plugin-notify
- vlc-plugin-samba
- vlc-plugin-skins2
- vlc-plugin-svg
- vlc-plugin-video-splitter
- vlc-plugin-visualization
How to install VLC in Ubuntu
If you are on a supported distro, you can install the application through software center by clicking the below link.
If the above link not working, run the below command in terminal to install vlc in Ubuntu
sudo apt install vlc
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