 VLC ዎቹ ኮዴኮች በ FFmpeg ፕሮጀክት ከ libavcodec መጽሐፍት አይገኝም ናቸው, ነገር ግን በዋነኝነት የራሱ multiplexers እና demultiplexers እና የራሱን ፕሮቶኮሎችን ይጠቀማል.
Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers and its own protocols implementations.