Video formats supported by VideoLan VLC Media Player
2009 February 17
Just got through with the Mid-Term examinations and the Lasallian Festival this past two weeks hence the lack of updates to this blog. A lot has been going on for me which I’d try very hard to share with you over this coming days.
To break the hiatus, I’ll answer a fellow volunteer’s question last week about VideoLan VLC Media Player; “What video formats can the VLC Player play?”
The answer is quite obvious, almost any known video format on the planet. Here’s a list from the VLC Media Player website:
- MPEG-1/2
- DIVX (1/2/3)
- MPEG-4 ASP, DivX 4/5/6, XviD, 3ivX D4
- H.261
- H.263 / H.263i
- H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC
- Cinepak
- Theora
- Dirac / VC-2
- MJPEG (A/B)
- WMV 1/2
- WMV 3 / WMV-9 / VC-1
- Sorenson 1/3 (Quicktime)
- DV (Digital Video)
- On2 VP3/VP5/VP6
- Indeo Video v3 (IV32)
- Indeo Video 4/5 (IV41, IV51)
I find it strange that my friend has never heard of the VLC media player before. The only players that he know of are Windows Media Player, RealOne, QuickTime and WinAmp.
The copy I gave him will surely impress and serve him well.
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Correction
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html shows there is NO support for
Indeo Video 4/5 (IV41, IV51)
(And looking at http://osdir.com/ml/video.videolan.vlc.devel/2003-08/msg00307.html it seems unlikely that this is fixed anytime soon, due to the lack of an opensorce decoder or open documentation of the format.)
there are some cases though that VLC doesn’t play some of my FLV files. Sometimes, it plays but there is no video shown. only the timeline is running.