VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free and open source software for video, released under the GNU General Public License. Learn more about the VideoLAN project. Our main software is the cross-platform VLC media player. We are also hosting x264 and other projects. About VLC media player VLC media player is a highly 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 doesn't need any external codec or program to work.