VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.
It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC can play:
MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM, and so
DVD, VCD, and CD audio
The satellite card (DVB-S)
Several types of network streams: UDP / RTP Unicast, UDP / RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
The capture card or encoding (GNU / Linux and Windows only)
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