VLC Media Player is a multimedia player that can be used for various audio and video formats as well as DVD, VCD, and various streaming protocols without using any external codec or program.
- MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, CD-ROM drive, and so on
- DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
- From satellite cards (DVB-S)
- Several types of network streams: UDP / RTP Unicast, UDP / RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
- From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU / Linux and Windows only)