There are chances that the platform was banned along with 54 Chinese apps in February 2022. It came into effect some time early this year. Incidentally, the blocking is not new, it has been there for almost six months now. The government so far has not issued any statement on this so far. The free portable streaming media player has been blocked on Windows devices. However, the legality of using VLC to play protected DVDs depends on where you are located.The cross-platform VLC media player’s website has been banned by the government of India.

VLC can play all kinds of DVDs, including discs with protection. VLC player offers support for the following audio formats: MPEG Layer 1/2, MP3 - MPEG Layer 3, AAC - MPEG-4 part3, Vorbis, AC3 - A/52, E-AC-3, MLP / TrueHD>3, DTS, WMA 1/2, WMA 3, FLAC, ALAC, Speex, Musepack / MPC, ATRAC 3, Wavpack, Mod, TrueAudio, APE, Real Audio, Alaw/µlaw, AMR (3GPP), MIDI, LPCM, ADPCM, QCELP, DV Audio, QDM2/QDMC, MACE. VLC media player, as it's now called, began to exist around 1996 as a project from the École Centrale Paris consisting of a client and server designed to stream videos. VLC player is a cross-platform media player, so it's also available for macOS, Linux and Android. VLC media player is compatible with all versions of Windows, including Windows 11.

VLC Media Player has grown its user base over the years thanks to its simplicity, wide support for a variety of formats, and features which allow all sorts of video manipulation and enhancements.

It supports many new devices inputs, formats, metadata and improves most of the current ones, preparing for the next-gen codecs. VLC media player is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as discs, devices, and network streaming.

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