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VLC Media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.

Playing back .MP4 H.264 encoded movies:

• Use VideoLAN which has a built in .MP4 reader and H.264 decoder
• Use Media Player Classic or Windows Media Player and ffdshow
• For more information on how to play back, encode and convert MP4 files, please refer to our MP4 Usage Guide

The official change log for version 1.1.4 is as follows:

• Win32:
  • Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules, See VideoLAN-SA-1005
  • Fix folders opening from the interface
• Translations:
  • Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician

  You may download this updated version here