VLC

VLC is a free, open source media player and multimedia engine known for playing virtually everything and running almost everywhere. It handles audio and video across nearly every format, plus discs, network streams, and capture devices, with no codec packs to install.

Beyond playback, it can convert, encode, stream, and manipulate media into numerous formats. Its underlying libVLC engine can be embedded into third-party applications, with bindings for languages including C++, Python, and C#.

VLC is part of the VideoLAN project and built by a worldwide community of volunteers. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS and is released under the GPLv2 or later license.