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VLC

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Install latest/stable of VLC

This channel hasn't been updated in a while. It might be unmaintained and have stability or security issues.

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.


Install using the command line

sudo snap install vlc

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Channel Version Published

Details for VLC

Package name

  • vlc

License

  • GPL-2.0+

Last updated

  • 26 March 2024 - latest/stable
  • 13 June 2026 - latest/edge

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The ultimate media player

VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player.

Completely open source and privacy-friendly, it plays every multimedia file and streams.

It notably plays MKV, MP4, MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, BluRays, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources. It supports subtitles, closed captions and is translated in numerous languages.


Install VLC on your Linux distribution

Choose your Linux distribution to get detailed installation instructions. If yours is not shown, get more details on the installing snapd documentation.