VLC media player is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms.

At its core, VLC offers fast performance powered by hardware decoding available on most platforms. It can leverage 0-copy on the GPU for efficiency and automatically fall back on software decoding when required. VLC has the most complete feature-set over the video, subtitle synchronisation, video and audio filters.