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VLC media player

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.
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Features

Simple, fast and powerful media player.

Plays everything: Files, Discs, Webcams, Devices and Streams.

Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:
MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

Runs on all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix...

Completely Free, no spyware, no ads and no user tracking.

Can do media conversion and streaming.
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Screenshots

VLC media player - Linux - Gnome
VLC media player - Windows 7 - Qt Interface
VLC media player - Windows 7 - Qt Interface
VLC media player - Windows 7 - Qt Interface
VLC media player - Windows Vista - Skins Interface
VLC media player - Windows Vista - Qt Interface
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Official Downloads of VLC media player

Windows

Get VLC for Windows

Mac OS X

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Sources

You can also directly get the source code.

GNU/Linux

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Other Systems

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