What is VLC media player?
{{update|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox software | name = VLC media player | title = VLC media player | logo = VLC Icon.svg | logo size = 100px | screenshot = File:VLC 3.0.10 running on Linux and GNOME Shell.png | caption = VLC 3 running on [[Linux]] and [[GNOME Shell]], playing ''Spring'', a short film by the [[Blender Foundation]] | ver layout = stacked | developer = [[VideoLAN]] | released = {{Start date and age|2001|2|1}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2016/15-years-of-VLC |title=15 years of VLC and VideoLAN |publisher=Jean-Baptiste Kempf |access-date=April 15, 2017 |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210518022822/http://www.jbkempf.com/blog/post/2016/15-years-of-VLC |url-status=dead }}</ref> | latest preview version = <!--3.0.0-rc8 (Windows, Linux, and macOS)--> | latest preview date = {{Start date and age|2018|1|27}} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftp.videolan.org/testing/ |title=VLC media player, Index of /testing/ |access-date=February 9, 2018}}</ref> | programming language = Core: [[C (programming language)|C]]<br /> GUI: [[C++]] (with [[Qt (software)|Qt]]), [[Objective-C]] (with [[Cocoa (API)|Cocoa]]), [[Swift (programming language)|Swift]], Java <br/> Bundled Extensions: [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://addons.videolan.org/p/1154045/ | title=VLSub }}</ref> | operating system = [[Windows]], [[Windows Phone]], [[macOS]], [[Linux]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[Chrome OS]], [[iOS]], [[iPadOS]], [[Apple TV]], [[Tizen]], [[watchOS]], [[Xbox One system software|Xbox One]] | platform = [[IA-32]], [[x86-64]], [[ARM architecture|ARM]], [[ARM64]], [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], [[PowerPC]] | language count = 48 | language footnote = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.videolan.org/developers/i18n/ |title=VideoLAN internationalization |website=[[VideoLAN]] |access-date=April 15, 2017}}</ref> | genre = [[Media player (software)|Media player]] | license = [[GNU General Public License|GPL-2.0]] with some libraries under [[GNU