Third party libraries used by VLC

Third party libraries used by VLC

You'll find a complete list on the .

But, here are the most important libraries.

Audio/Video codecs

- an ATSC A/52 (aka AC3) audio decoder
- an MPEG audio decoder
- an MPEG1/2 video decoder
- an extensive audio/video codec library which supports several formats like MPEG4, H263, WMV/A etc...
- an Ogg bitstream parser
- a Vorbis audio decoder
- a FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) audio decoder
- a Speex (Free speech codec) audio decoder
- a Theora video decoder
- an AAC audio decoder
- a DV video decoder (deprecated in favor of libavcodec)
- an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec (deprecated in favor of libavcodec)
libdca - A DTS Coherent Acoustics decoding library.

GUI framework libraries

- a cross-platform C++ GUI framework that keeps the look and feel of each platform
QT4 - a C++ Cross-Platform Rich Client Development Framework

Audio/Video output libraries

- a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide level access to audio, and 2D video framebuffer

Miscellaneous libraries

libdvdcss - a library for accessing encrypted DVDs
- a library for DVD navigation
libdvdread - a library for reading DVD-Video images
libdvbpsi - a library designed for decoding and generation of MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables
- an open-source implementation of Service Location Protocol
- a set of tools that provides a framework to help applications produce multi-lingual messages
- a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images).
- A Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm
- C++ libraries for multimedia streaming (RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP)
- a new, extensible open standard Audio/Video container format

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