VideoLAN – VLC Media player and Streaming server
Posted by admin on June 23rd, 2008
VLC media player is a free opensource cross-Platform media player and streaming server for Linux,UNIX,Windows, MacOS and many other *NIX versions. 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.
Features include,
Input Media
UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP / FTP, MMS, TCP/RTP Unicast, DCCP/RTP Unicast, File, DVD, VCD, SVCD, Audio CD (without DTS), DVB (Satellite,
Digital TV, Cable TV), MPEG encoder, Video acquisition
Input Format
MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3), ID3 tags, AVI,ASF / WMV / WMA, MP4 / MOV / 3GP, OGG / OGM / Annodex, Matroska (MKV), Real, WAV (incuding DTS), Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52, Raw DV, FLAC, FLV (Flash), Standard MIDI, Creative™ Voice
Video Decoders
MPEG-1/2, DIVX (1/2/3), MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, 3ivX D4, H.264, Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime), DV, Cinepak, Theora (alpha 3), H.263 / H.263i, MJPEG (A/B), WMV 1/2
WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1, Indeo Video v3 (IV32) (No PPC Support)
Video Subtitles
DVD, SVCD / CVD, DVB, OGM, Matroska, Text files (MicroDVD,SubRIP, SubViewer, SSA1-5, SAMI, VPlayer), Vobsub
Video Filters
Deinterlace, Cropping, Image wall, Image adjust, Rotate/Mirror, Logo overlay, Magnification, Image distortion, Bluescreen, RSS/Atom feeds
Video output Formats
Native, X11, XVideo, SDL, FrameBuffer, ASCII Art
Audio Decoders
MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3, AC3 – A/52, DTS, LPCM, AAC, Vorbis, WMA 1/2, Alaw/µlaw, MIDI, WMA, ADPCM, DV Audio, FLAC, QDM2/QDMC (QuickTime), MACE, Real Audio 10, Speex
Audio Filters
Visualization effects, Equalizer
Audio Outputs
Native, S/PDIF, Multi-channel (OSS ALSA), SDL, ESD, aRts, JACK
Streaming
WxWidgets, Qt, Skins, Web, Telnet, Command line, Infrared
Other
SAP/SDP announces, Bonjour protocol, Mozilla/Firefox plugin, SVCD Menus, Localization, CD-Text, CDDB CD info, IGMPv3, IPv6, MLDv2, CPU acceleration
To install add the VLC repositories as follows:
openSUSE 11.0
linux-4518:/media # zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/ “VLC Repository”
Adding repository ‘VLC Repository’ [done]
Repository ‘VLC Repository’ successfully added
Enabled: Yes
Autorefresh: No
URI: http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/11.0/
openSUSE 10.3
linux-4518:/media # zypper ar http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/SuSE/10.3/ “VLC Repository”
Install vlc
linux-4518:/media # yast2 –install vlc
openSUSE 11.0 & 10.3 1-click install
Alternatively, vlc provide 1-click install files. Simply, download the 1-click installvlc.ymp file and open it with “YAST Meta Package Installer” to complete the installation.
1-click Install for openSUSE 11.0
http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/11.0/vlc.ymp
1-click Install for openSUSE 10.3
http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/1.30/vlc.ymp
This should install vlc Media player on your PC.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:54 pm
VLC media player is very useful for the watching videos. It gives the clear picture. I love VLC media player. Thank you for giving this useful information.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:01 am
I can’t play flv. It used to work. How do you get around it?
November 12th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Thankyou very much for the information.
http://download.videolan.org/pub/vlc/SuSE/10.3/vlc.ymp
December 18th, 2008 at 9:53 am
I use VLC for watching movies on my computer. I think it is an excellence program. I listen to some MP3′s on it but I mainly use “Amarok” for that. VLC has a great picture and once you set it up it works great.
December 29th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
how can i download vlc into my opensuse, my computer is offline and i downloaded vlc.ymp using another computer into an harddrive and [lug in my harddrive into my open suse but i cannot get the file to download