3.0.21[2] / 5 June 2024; 3 months ago (5 June 2024)
Android
3.5.4[3] / 6 July 2023; 14 months ago (6 July 2023)
ChromeOS
1.7.3[4] / 23 December 2015; 8 years ago (23 December 2015)
iOS, Apple TV
3.2.10[5] / 7 June 2020; 9 June 2020; 3 October 2020; 22 October 2020; 31 March 2022; 6 April 2022; 12 April 2022; 27 April 2022; 15 October 2022; 21 December 2022; 26 June 2023; 19 July 2023; 17 August 2023; 8 September 2023; 18 March 2024; Error: first parameter cannot be parsed as a date or time. (7 June 2020; 9 June 2020; 3 October 2020; 22 October 2020; 31 March 2022; 6 April 2022; 12 April 2022; 27 April 2022; 15 October 2022; 21 December 2022; 26 June 2023; 19 July 2023; 17 August 2023; 8 September 2023; 18 March 2024)
The default distribution of VLC includes many free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. The libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project provides many of VLC's codecs, but the player mainly[15] uses its own muxers and demuxers. It also has its own protocol implementations. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and macOS by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library; however, this library is legally controversial and is not included in many software repositories of Linux distributions as a result.[16][17] It is available on iOS under the MPLv2.[18]