Download VLC Media Player – VLC Media Player 64-bit and 32 bit (formerly VideoLAN Customer) is a very portable free multimedia player for numerous audio as well as video formats, consisting of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MP3, as well as OGG, as well as for DVDs, VCDs.
Downloading VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player is one of the best media players out there and it is available as a free download. For Windows PCs, you can download this software from the official download page at: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
At the download page mentioned above, there are three file types which can be used to install VLC Media Player in your Windows Machine:
An Exe Installer Package: A direct installing .exe file. Download this file, open it and the installation process begins.
A 7zip Package: A .7z file which requires the file compressor 7 Zip to extract the contents of this file.
A Zip Package: A Zip compressed package file which can be extracted with several file archiving software including WinRar and 7 Zip.
Your downloaded file name will be something like vlc-2.1.0-win32.exe, vlc-2.1.0-win32.7z and vlc-2.1.0-win32.zip for the Exe, 7Zip and Zip packages respectively. The version number (2.1.0) might be different.
The download link above will download the 32 bit version of this software. It works fine in 64 bit Windows machines but if you want to download and install/use a native 64 bit VLC Media Player for your 64 bit Windows system then visit the following link:
From there, you will get access to VLC Media Player self installing file (.exe) or compressed files (.7z or .zip). Read the file names and download the files correctly. For example at the current version number 2.1.0 the file names for exe, 7z and zip files are vlc-2.1.0-win64.exe, vlc-2.1.0-win64.7z and vlc-2.1.0-win64.zip respectively.
Installing VLC Media Player
Installing using the .exe installer package in Windows 7.
Note:In other Windows OS versions the installation steps might not look exactly the same but is basically
Note:In other Windows OS versions the installation steps might not look exactly the same but is basically
Locate and open your downloaded .exe installation file (vlc-2.1.0-win32.exe or vlc-2.1.0-win64.exe)
- If a security warning appears saying that the publisher could not be verified, click on “Run”.
- If it asks for other permissions on Windows click on “Yes” as well.
- Select a preferred language for your installation and click on “Ok”.
- The installation process will begin. Hit next to move on to the next step.
- Review the license agreement and click on next to continue.
- Choose the components that you want to install. The default option works great but you might want to review them. Here are some information about the componentsMedia Player (Required): Installs VLC Media Player. This option is by default selected and cannot be deselected/modified.
Start Menu Shortcut: Place a VLC menu on Windows start menu for your convenience.
Desktop Shortcut: Place a shortcut icon to your desktop for easy launch.
Web Plugins: Mozilla and Active X Plugins for playing/streaming web videos directly from your browser(s).
Discs Playback: To play DVD and CD inserted into your PC.
File Type Associations: To set VLC as the default player for certain file types. Individual file types can also be selected.
Audio: Association with all popular audio files.
Video: Association with all popular video file formats.
Others: Association with other file fomats such as .asx, .b4s, .bin.
Context Menus: Add “Play with VLC” and “Add to VLC’s Playlist” in your right click menu.
Delete Preferences and caches: To delete saved preferences and caches from the previous installation. - Choose a location in your disk where you want to install VLC media player. The default settings is good enough but you can change it according to your preference.
- The installation will progress and the progress bar will increase as the process moves forward.
- Once the installation completes, the following confirmation/completion screen is shown.
- You have successfully completed the installation of VLC Media Player. If you had checked “Run VLC media player” in the previous step, then the player will run for the first time. It looks something like this:
Congratulations, you have just installed yourself a great new and awesome player for your computer. Remember the traffic cone which is the icon of this amazing player. Click on the cone every time you have to listen or play some media files.
Installing using the downloaded archive file (7z or zip)
- Locate and open your downloaded archive file for VLC Media Player. The file name is something like vlc-2.1.0-win32.zip or vlc-2.1.0-win32.7z. As mentioned before, you will need a archive opening program such as WinRar or 7 Zip. Here the file is being opened using WinRar.
- Extract the contents of the archive to where you want to place your VLC Media Player. You can extract it to a certain place and then move it somewhere else later. This method installs a portable version of this amazing software.
- Locate the extracted files and folders.
- Open vlc.exe and VLC Media Player will run for the first time.
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VLC Media Player 0.6.0 Change Log
- Core Support:
- Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
- Input access:
- Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
- Fixed large file support on Windows
- Video 4 Linux support
- CD Digital Audio support
- Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
- Input demux:
- Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
- Support for OpenDML avi files
- More complete .mp4/.mov support
- Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
- Codecs:
- VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
- Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
- OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
- Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
- Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
- If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
- Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
- Interfaces:
- The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
- New HTTP remote control interface
- Stream output:
- New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
- The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
- Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
- SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
- Miscellaneous:
- New reset option for the preferences
- You can set your language in the prefences
- New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
- Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
- Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
- SAP/SDP IPv6 support
- UNIX ports:
- Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
- New skinable interface ported to X11.
- Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
- Mac OS X port:
- When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
- New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
- Fixed the deinterlace menu.
- Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
- New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
- New icons by Davor Orel.
- New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
- Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
- We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
- Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
- Win32 port:
- the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
- The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
- Fixed the 'no sound' problem on NT4
- Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
- Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
- Fixed SVCD chapters support.
- Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
- BeOS port:
- Interface localization
- Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
- A few new keyboard shortcuts
- New full-featured Preferences window
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