VLC media player, as it's now called, began to exist around 1996 as a project from the École Centrale Paris consisting of a client and server designed to stream videos.

VLC player is a cross-platform media player, so it's also available for macOS, Linux and Android. VLC media player is compatible with all versions of Windows, including Windows 11. VLC Media Player has grown its user base over the years thanks to its simplicity, wide support for a variety of formats, and features which allow all sorts of video manipulation and enhancements. For subtitles in VLC you can download VLSub. Support for many new devices inputs, formats, and metadata have been introduces along with next-gen codecs. This new version also introduces new rendering pipeline for audio, with better effiency, volume and device management, to improve VLC audio support. Version 4.0 introduces a new user interface, media library browser, VR support, 3D video support, and revised video output functions. 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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