VideoLAN Wiki - User contributions [en]

MacOS

2007-01-20T16:09:19Z

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==Keyboard Shortcuts==
You can find most of the keyboard shortcuts by taking a look at the menus. Additional hotkeys are defined in the section "Hotkeys" of your VLC preferences.

Some handy key combo's are:

* You can use the spacebar to start/pause the video.
* When playing video, holding down the Apple key and pressing the F key enters and exits fullscreen. When in fullscreen you can also use the escape key to exit the fullscreen state.
* When playing video, holding the Apple and Shift keys and pressing the left/right arrow keys, jumps the video backward/forward about a minute.
* When playing video, holding the Apple and Ctrl keys and pressing the left/right arrow keys, jumps the video backward/forward about ten seconds.
* When you are watching a DVD and the video window is the front-most window you can use the arrow keys and the enter key to navigate the DVD menus.

==Streaming Wizard==
A streaming wizard is available since the VLC media player 0.8.4 release.

==Command line==
You can run VLC on Mac OS X using a terminal application (for example Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities) with the following command: ./VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC [your options, "--intf=rc" for example].

=== No Dock ===
Note that you can replace the "VLC" at the end of the path with "clivlc" to suppress the launch of any Mac-like interface.
VLC won't even appear in the Dock then.

When [[transcoding]], clivlc should be used if running VLC from the command line crashes with a Bus error.

==Need Help?==
View the [[FAQ on MacOSX only issues]] or the [[Common Problems]] pages.
[[Category:Operating systems]]

User:AlistairMcMillan

2007-01-20T15:59:00Z

AlistairMcMillan: start

Hi,

Not much to say.

Big fan/heavy user of VLC media player, normally found <s>wasting time</s> contributing to Wikipedia.

- Alistair

BeOSCompile

2007-01-20T15:52:55Z

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Compile VLC on BeOS

== Required tools ==
You need :
* [http://www.bebits.com/app/2680 BeOS 5] with development tools
* [http://www.bebits.com/app/1610 CVS 1.11]
* [http://www.bebits.com/app/3962 Subversion]
* [http://www.bebits.com/app/3218 bzip2/bunzip2]
* [http://www.bebits.com/app/2848 wget]
* [http://www.bebits.com/app/4011 gcc 2.95.3]

Compiling is usually done on a vanilla R5.0.3 install with gcc 2.95.3.

Building with older compilers won't work.

Building on a BONE-enabled install probably doesn't work at the moment.

== Build VLC ==
Now you can compile vlc:

=== Get the source ===
Download the {{VLC}} [[GetTheSource|source code]] (using [[subversion]]) as described on the [[GetTheSource| "Get the source"]] page.

=== Build external libs ===

We now need to build the [[Contrib_Status| 3rd party libs]]. For that, you will need to:
* cd to the source directory with your Terminal application.
* cd to extras/contrib/ subdir of VLC and execute <code>./bootstrap</code>
* Now execute <code>make src</code>. This will download and compile all the required external libraries and programs that {{VLC}} needs (you need an internet connection, a fast one preferably).

=== Prepare the VLC build ===
Now we return to VLC itself. Go back to the top level VLC source directory. If you use Subversion (which you really should), then run <code>./bootstrap</code>.

This will create configure and Makefiles for {{VLC}} (snapshots and releases already include this).

=== Configure VLC ===
The next step is to configure, in the top level VLC source directory.

<code>./configure --enable-debug --enable-sout --enable-httpd --enable-vlm --enable-dvdread --enable-dvdnav --enable-dvbpsi --enable-screen --enable-ogg --enable-mkv --enable-mad --enable-ffmpeg --enable-faad --enable-a52 --enable-flac --enable-libmpeg2 --enable-vorbis --enable-speex --enable-theora --enable-freetype --enable-fribidi --disable-skins2 --with-ffmpeg-mp3lame --with-ffmpeg-faac --with-ffmpeg-zlib --disable-x11 --disable-hal --disable-daap --disable-xvideo --disable-glx --disable-sdl --disable-wxwindows</code>

=== Build VLC ===
After configure is finished, we can finally build {{VLC}}. A simple <code>make</code> will do the trick.

To build a package, run <code>make package-beos</code>.

== History ==
Written by Eric Petit, for the VideoLAN Team.
Adapted to the Wiki by [[User:j-b|Jean-Baptiste Kempf]].

[[Category:Building]]
[[Category:Coding]]

VideoLAN projects

2007-01-20T15:51:20Z

AlistairMcMillan: /* Deprecated, old projects and libraries */ Removing dup indirect links. Changing "VLC" to "VLC media player".

== VideoLAN projects ==
=== Active projects ===

Here is a short list of the main [[VideoLAN projects|projects]] hosted by the VideoLAN project:

* [[VLC media player]], the core and main program, is a complete video solution that is a player, a live transcoder and a streamer.
* [[MiniSAPServer]] is a SAP server.
* [[x264]], a free H264 / AVC encoder.

=== Libraries ===
* [[libdvdcss]], a C library to access DVDs without having to bother about the decryption.
* [[libdvbpsi]], a C library to decode and generate MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables.
* [[libdca]], a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder.

=== Deprecated, old projects and libraries ===
* [[VLS]] is a streaming server, used for professional streaming solutions. The VLC media player can now do the same. Please use the VLC media player.
* ''VLCS'', the mini VideoLAN Channel Server, can tell the client what is the multicast address associated to a channel.
* ''VLMS'', the VideoLAN Mini Server.

* [http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdplay/ libdvdplay], is a simple library designed for DVD navigation. It depends on libdvdread (which can optionally use libdvdcss). Use libdvdnav.

== SVN Hosted by VideoLAN projects ==
* [http://liba52.sourceforge.net/ liba52]
* [http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/ libmpeg2]

== See also ==
* '''See also [[:Category:VideoLAN projects]]'''

[[Category:About VideoLAN]] [[Category:VideoLAN projects]]

Category:How To

2007-01-20T15:50:26Z

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Below are some handy guides for using [[VLC media player]]

Interfaces

2007-01-20T15:49:47Z

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Interfaces are the way you interact with {{VLC}}.

== Main interfaces ==
VLC has 4 main Interfaces:
* The [[wxWidgets Interface]] (wx) is the default interface on [[Linux]] and [[Windows]].
* The [[Qt Interface]] (qt) will be the default interaface on [[Linux]] and [[Windows]].
* The [[Skins|skins2 Interface]] is an interface where you can customize VLC's look (Works on Linux and Windows).
* The [[Mac OS X Interface]] is the default (and only) graphical interface on Mac OS X.
* The [[BeOS Interface]] is the default (and only) graphical interface on BeOS.

== Full list ==
The full list of interfaces is
{|
|'''wx'''
| Default [http://www.wxwidgets.org/ wxWidgets] interface on [[Linux]] and [[Windows]].
|-
|'''qt'''
| Future default [http://www.trolltech.com/qt Qt4] interface on [[Linux]] and [[Windows]].
|-
|'''skins2'''
| Load VLC with a [[Skins|skin]]. (Linux and Windows only)
|-
|'''macosx'''
| Default [[Mac OS X]] interface
|-
|'''beos'''
| Default [[BeOS]] interface
|-
| '''http'''
| [[Web Interface]], used for controlling VLC from over a network
|-
| '''gestures'''
| [[Mouse Gestures]], where you can control vlc by moving the mouse
|-
| '''rc''', '''ncurses''', '''telnet'''
| [[Console|Console Interfaces]], non-graphical interfaces.
|-
| '''showintf'''
| Show Intefaces module
|-
| '''hotkeys''' and '''joystick'''
| Control VLC with the keyboard/joystick
|-
| '''dummy'''
| Don't use an interface
|}

== Listing the interfaces available ==

There are some other interfaces, you can view the list by running VLC with the -l option:
vlc -l
This also displays the [[muxers]] and [[encoders]]/[[decoders]]. On linux, run
vlc -l | grep -i interface
to display the interfaces.

== Using an interface ==

To run {{VLC}} with a different primary interface, use the following command:
vlc --intf ''name''
You can also use
vlc -I ''name''
You can also change the default in the [[Preferences]].

However you can also launch more than one interface:
vlc --intf wx --extraintf sap,telnet,http
This will launch VLC with the default wxWidgets interface, but will also launch the sap, telnet and web interface in addition to the wxWidgets one. The default for this can also be changed in the Preferences.

Note that if you only use the dummy interface, you won't be able to tell vlc to quit - you may have to break it manually with Ctrl+C; or use vlc:quit as the last item on the playlist.

== See also ==
* '''See also [[:Category:Interfaces]]'''

[[Category:Interfaces]]

VLC HowTo/Make a mosaic

2007-01-20T15:49:09Z

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==VLC mosaic howto==

This is a small example about how to use [[VLC media player]] to create a mosaic. What we basically want is a video mosaic mixing 3 video channels (channels 1, 2 and 3) on a background image (background.png) and streaming the resulting video on the network. Note that we will also be streaming the 3 sound tracks from channels 1, 2 and 3 in the same mpeg-ts stream.

Starting with VLC 0.8.5-test2, the http interface features a "Mosaic wizard". You might want to use it if you have no knowledge of VLC command line usage.

http://people.via.ecp.fr/~dionoea/videolan/mosaic1.png

Other neat examples :

[http://people.via.ecp.fr/~dionoea/videolan/mosaic2.jpg 12 video mosaic]

[http://people.via.ecp.fr/~dionoea/videolan/mos1.png 20 video mosaic]

[http://people.via.ecp.fr/~dionoea/videolan/mos2.png 20 video mosaic]

===Step 0===

Read the VLC streaming howto (chapters 3 and 5 concerning command line and vlm usage in VLC) : http://videolan.org/doc/

===Step 1===

Get VLC 0.8.4-test1 or newer and install it on your computer.

===Step 2===

You now have to get a background image. Many image formats are supported (JPEG, PNG ...).

You can also test it with VLC to see if it displays locally :
<pre>
./vlc --fake-file background.png --fake-aspect-ratio "4:3" fake:
</pre>

===Step 3===

You now need to configure VLC to get the 3 source streams and blend them on the background image.

The vlm configuration file looks like :

<pre>
new channel1 broadcast enabled
setup channel1 input udp://@239.255.2.60:1234
setup channel1 output #duplicate{dst=mosaic-bridge{id=1,height=144,width=180},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=audio}

new channel2 broadcast enabled
setup channel2 input udp://@239.255.10.200:1234
setup channel2 output #duplicate{dst=mosaic-bridge{id=2,height=144,width=180},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=2},select=audio}

new channel3 broadcast enabled
setup channel3 input udp://@239.255.6.9:1234
setup channel3 output #duplicate{dst=mosaic-bridge{id=3,height=144,width=180},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=3},select=audio}

new background broadcast enabled
setup background input fake:
setup background output #transcode{sfilter=mosaic,vcodec=mp2v,vb=10000,scale=1}:bridge-in{delay=400,id-offset=100}:standard{access=udp,mux=ts,url=239.255.12.42,sap,name="mosaic"}

control background play
control channel1 play
control channel2 play
control channel3 play
</pre>

Note that the source streams are network streams, which is likely to be the case if you're considering doing a mosaic.

===Step 4===

And now, the right command to launch vlc :

<pre>
./vlc --color -I telnet --vlm-conf ../mosaic.vlm.conf --ttl 12 \
--fake-file background.png --fake-aspect-ratio "4:3" \
--mosaic-width 360 --mosaic-height 288 --udp-caching 800 \
--mosaic-keep-picture --mosaic-rows 2 --mosaic-cols 2 \
--mosaic-position 1 --mosaic-order 1,2,3
</pre>

===Small Diagram That Might Help===
[http://people.via.ecp.fr/~dionoea/videolan/mosaic-diagram.png Small Diagram That Might Help]

==Appendix==

===Mosaic video sub filter===
The full set of mosaic commands is :

<pre>
Mosaic video sub filter
--mosaic-alpha <integer> Alpha blending
Alpha blending (0 -> 255). Default is 255
--mosaic-height <integer> Height in pixels
Height in pixels
--mosaic-width <integer> Width in pixels
Width in pixels
--mosaic-align {0 (Center), 1 (Left), 2 (Right), 4 (Top), 8 (Bottom), 5 (Top-Left), 6 (Top-Right), 9 (Bottom-Left), 10 (Bottom-Right)}
Mosaic alignment
Mosaic alignment
--mosaic-xoffset <integer> Top left corner x coordinate
Top left corner x coordinate
--mosaic-yoffset <integer> Top left corner y coordinate
Top left corner y coordinate
--mosaic-vborder <integer> Vertical border width in pixels
Vertical border width in pixels
--mosaic-hborder <integer> Horizontal border width in pixels
Horizontal border width in pixels
--mosaic-position {0 (auto), 1 (fixed)}
Positioning method
Positioning method. auto : automatically
choose the best number of rows and columns.
fixed : use the user-defined number of rows
and columns.
--mosaic-rows <integer> Number of rows
Number of rows
--mosaic-cols <integer> Number of columns
Number of columns
--mosaic-keep-aspect-ratio, --no-mosaic-keep-aspect-ratio
Keep aspect ratio when resizing (default
disabled)
Keep aspect ratio when resizing (default
disabled)
--mosaic-keep-picture, --no-mosaic-keep-picture
Keep original size (default disabled)
Keep original size (default disabled)
--mosaic-order <string> Order as a comma separated list of
picture-id(s)
Order as a comma separated list of
picture-id(s)
--mosaic-delay <integer> Delay
Pictures coming from the picture video
outputs will be delayed accordingly (in
milliseconds). For high values you will need
to raise file-caching and others.
</pre>

===Mosaic bridge stream output===
The full set of mosaic bridge stream output commands is :

<pre>
Mosaic bridge stream output
--sout-mosaic-bridge-id <string>
ID
Specify an identifier string for this
subpicture
--sout-mosaic-bridge-width <integer>
Video width
Allows you to specify the output video width.
--sout-mosaic-bridge-height <integer>
Video height
Allows you to specify the output video height.
</pre>

===Bridge stream output===
The full set of bridge stream output commands is :

<pre>
Bridge stream output
--sout-bridge-out-id <integer>
ID
Specify an identifier integer for this
elementary stream
--sout-bridge-in-delay <integer>
Delay
Pictures coming from the picture video
outputs will be delayed accordingly (in
milliseconds, >= 100 ms). For high values you
will need to raise file-caching and others.
--sout-bridge-in-id-offset <integer>
ID Offset
Offset to add to the stream IDs specified in
bridge_out to obtain the stream IDs bridge_in
will register.
</pre>

===Fake input module===
The full set of the fake input options is :
<pre>
Fake video decoder
--fake-file <string> Image file
Path of the image file when using the fake
input.
--fake-width <integer> Video width
Allows you to specify the output video width.
--fake-height <integer> Video height
Allows you to specify the output video height.
--fake-keep-ar, --no-fake-keep-ar
Keep aspect ratio (default disabled)
If selected, width and height will be
considered as maximum values. (default
disabled)
--fake-aspect-ratio <string>
Background aspect ratio
Aspect ratio of the image file (4:3, 16:9).
Default is square pixels.
--fake-deinterlace, --no-fake-deinterlace
Deinterlace video (default disabled)
Allows you to deinterlace the image after
loading. (default disabled)
--fake-deinterlace-module {deinterlace,ffmpeg-deinterlace}
Deinterlace module
Specifies the deinterlace module to use.
</pre>

VideoLAN

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== The History of VideoLAN ==

(this is still incomplete but it should give the background info people are likely to be looking for)

The [http://www.videolan.org VideoLAN project] was started as a school project in 1996 by students of [http://www.ecp.fr Ecole Centrale Paris], a French engineering school. These students wanted to be able to watch television on their PCs. (They also wanted to upgrade the [http://www.via.ecp.fr VIA Centrale Réseaux] network so they needed a bandwidth intensive application to justify the upgrade.)

They began writing [[VLS]] (VideoLAN Server) and the [[VLC media player|VLC]] (VideoLAN Client) to stream and read MPEG2 streams. They succeeded in serving and reading the first stream in 1998. These two programs were planned to be modular, which meant a core consisting basically of communication functions to be used by the modules. This allowed easy porting of the OS specific modules.

In 2001, after many months (if not years) of negotiation, [http://download.videolan.org/images/paper.jpeg the school's Director agreed to a change to the GPL licence]. Developers from all around the world started working on the project right away. One of them (gibalou) even submitted the Win32 port 6 months later!

The first large scale multicast streaming tests occurred in May 2002. 500 students on the VIA Centrale Réseaux network were able to participate in these tests. In January 2003, the first MPEG4 streams were tested and realtime MPEG4 encoding was available two months later.

== Misc ==

[http://people.videolan.org/~dionoea/servers/ The VideoLAN project's servers]

== Related Pages ==
* [[VLC CodeNames]]

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[[Category:About VideoLAN]]

VideoLAN

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== The History of VideoLAN ==

(this is still incomplete but it should give the background info people are likely to be looking for)

The [http://www.videolan.org VideoLAN project] was started as a school project in 1996 by students of [http://www.ecp.fr Ecole Centrale Paris], a French engineering school. These students wanted to be able to watch television on their PCs. (They also wanted to upgrade the [http://www.via.ecp.fr VIA Centrale Réseaux] network so they needed a bandwidth intensive application to justify the upgrade.)

They began writing VLS (VideoLAN Server) and VLC (VideoLAN Client) to stream and read MPEG2 streams. They succeeded in serving and reading the first stream in 1998. These two programs were planned to be modular, which meant a core consisting basically of communication functions to be used by the modules. This allowed easy porting of the OS specific modules.

In 2001, after many months (if not years) of negotiation, [http://download.videolan.org/images/paper.jpeg the school's Director agreed to a change to the GPL licence]. Developers from all around the world started working on the project right away. One of them (gibalou) even submitted the Win32 port 6 months later!

The first large scale multicast streaming tests occurred in May 2002. 500 students on the VIA Centrale Réseaux network were able to participate in these tests. In January 2003, the first MPEG4 streams were tested and realtime MPEG4 encoding was available two months later.

== Misc ==

[http://people.videolan.org/~dionoea/servers/ The VideoLAN project's servers]

== Related Pages ==
* [[VLC media player]]
* [[VLS]]
* [[VLC CodeNames]]

{{stub}}

[[Category:About VideoLAN]]

RealMedia

2007-01-20T15:45:52Z

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{{mux|id=real|altid=rm|encoder=n}}
{{mmwiki|RealMedia}}

'''RealMedia''' is a type of file designed by [[RealNetworks]], and can be played with the proprietary [[RealPlayer]]. RealPlayer is avaliable for [[Windows]], [[Mac OS]], [[MacOS X]] and [[Linux]]. Additionally, [[Helix Player]] may be able to play some files, but it lacks the proprietary codecs in some realmedia files.

RealMedia files are normally streamed over [[RTSP]] connections.

==Accepted codecs==
* [[rv]]: RealVideo
* [[ra]]: [[MPEG-4]] audio
* [[a52]], [[dnet]]: A/52 audio
* [[cook]]: Cook audio codec
* [[28_8]]: 28.8 audio codec
* [[sipr]]? Possibly unsupported

==Compatability==
Currently, [[VLC media player]] can only play the audio on some .rm files.

== Source code ==
{{file|modules/demux/real.c|input demuxer}}

CD

2007-01-20T15:45:29Z

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{{wikipedia|Compact disc}}
A '''CD''' or '''Compact Disc''' is a circular disk with a silver look to it.

== Audio CDs ==
{{protocol|id=cdda|altid=cddasimple|info=Usage: cdda://device@track}}

'''Audio CDs''' contain audio data, and can be read by a CD player. Any CD marked with the [[wikipedia:Image:Cdda.png|CDDA mark]] can be played in any player also marked with a CDDA mark.

Audio CDs can be played with [[VLC media player]] if you have a CD drive on your PC. After inserting the CD, run VLC and select ''Open Disc'' from the ''File'' menu. Then click on the ''Audio CD'' option and press OK. If you prefer, you can use the [[command prompt]] to run an audio CD:
vlc cdda://D:
vlc cdda:///dev/cdrom
Where D: (windows) or /dev/cdrom (linux) is the location of your CD drive. To play a single track, append an @ followed by the track number. For example, to play track 3, type
vlc cdda://D:@3

Audio CDs contain [[uncompressed]] [[lossless]] audio, which takes up a lot of space on the disk but is ''very'' good quality. The format for this is [[stereo]] audio in 44100Hz 16-bit [[PCM]] [[WAV]] format.

=== Module options ===
* --cdda-caching ([[integer]])
*: [[Caching]] value, in [[millisecond]]s
* --cdda-track ([[integer]])
*: The track to play. This is equivalent to appending "@track" to the URL. Default value is -1, for playing all tracks.
* --cdda-first-sector ([[integer]])
* --cdda-last-sector ([[integer]])
*: The first and last [[wikipedia:Disk sector|sectors]] of the CD to check.{{check}}
* --cddb-server ([[string]])
* --cddb-port ([[integer]])
*: Location of the CDDB server to use. Default is "freedb.freedb.org" on port 8880

== Data CDs ==
'''Data CDs''' contain programs or files which can be read by your PC - you can only use these with your PC.

CDs can also contain other data and program code. When you insert a CD in some versions of [[Windows]], programs on the CD may run without asking you first - you may wish to [http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-018 turn off autorun] or hold the shift key when inserting a CD to stop this happening.

=== Playing media files on a data CD ===
You can play files from a data CD, in exactly the same way as playing them from your hard drive (note: Linux users will need to [[wikipedia:Mount (computing)|mount]] the CD drive first).

See the [[file]] access module for details of playing files from your computer.

== CDs with both audio and data (Mixed CDs) ==
'''Mixed CDs''' contain both audio and data, for example a CD may come with a music video as a "bonus feature". The data part (such as the music video) can only be used on your PC, but the audio is able to be played on your PC or CD player.

Some mixed CDs come with programs which will try to install [[copy protection]] on your computer - see [[wikipedia:2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal|2005 Sony BMG CD copy protection scandal]].

To play the audio CD part, follow the [[#Audio CDs|instructions for an audio CD]]. To play files on the data CD part, follow the [[#Data CDs|instructions for a data CD]].

==See also==
* [[Image|Disk Image (.iso)]]
* [[FLAC]]

== Source code ==
{{file|modules/access/cdda.c|access module}}

Buying Media to Play with VLC

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Buying music online which can play with [[VLC media player]] is tricky. Most online stores and record companies use [[DRM]], which disables the ability to play files in all [[media player]]s other than a few [[proprietary]] players which support the DRM they use.

However, there are solutions, which are suggested below:

== Buy from Open Record Labels ==
{{wikipedia|Open source record label}}
There are several record companies who do not use [[DRM]] on their music. This means that it can be played in any media player, including VLC! Some of these are listed below, (see also [[wikipedia:Open Record Labels|wikipedia]]):
* [http://www.magnatune.com Magnatune]
* [http://calabashmusic.com/ Calabash Music]
* [http://www.locarecords.com/ Loca Records]
* [http://www.lecridelaharpe.com/krayola/ Krayola Records]
* [http://www.onclassical.com/ Onclassical]
* [http://www.comfortstand.com/ Comfort Stand Recordings]

== Creative Commons ==

Some people release media files under [[creative commons]] licenses, which are normally free and allow you to copy the files to your friends. These files are also DRM-free. Some creative commons sites are listed below:
* [http://www.creativecommons.org Creative Commons]
* [http://www.ccmixter.org ccMixter]
* [http://www.archive.org Internet Archive]
* [http://opsound.org/ Opsound]

== Play from a CD ==

VLC can play from CDs. To make sure your CD can be played anywhere, make sure it carries the [[wikipedia:Image:Cdda.png|CDDA logo]].

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Hardware Compatibility list

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{{stub}}

Please add hardware known to work with [[VLC media player]]. Don't forget to specify the Operating System you know it to work on.

== Capture Cards ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Product || Vendor || Format || OS || Notes
|-
| Hauppauge WinTV 38101 || Hauppauge || Analog || Windows XP DirectShow || Set "Video input chroma format" to "RV24"
|-
| Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 || Hauppauge || Analog || Linux (using v4l2) / Windows (using DirectShow) || MPEG2 capture on windows possibly broken[[Hardware_Compatibility_list#MPEG2_capture_on_windows_possibly_broken_fn|*]]
|-
| Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250 || Hauppauge || Analog || Linux (using v4l2) / Windows (using DirectShow)||
|-
| Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 || Hauppauge || Analog || Linux (using v4l2) / Windows (using DirectShow)||
|-
| Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-S-CI PCI || Hauppauge || Satellite [[DVB-S]] || Linux || Bridge: Philips SAA7146A
|-
| Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-S PCI || Hauppauge || Satellite [[DVB-S]] || Linux || Bridge: Philips SAA7146A
|-
| Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T PCI || Hauppauge || Terrestrial [[DVB-T]] || Linux || Bridge: Philips SAA7146A; Demodulator: Philips TDA 10045
|-
| Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-T USB2|| Hauppauge || Terrestrial [[DVB-T]] || Linux ||
|-
| Avermedia AVerTV DVB-T 771 || Avermedia || Terrestrial [[DVB-T]] || Linux (using VLS or VLC) || Bridge: Brooktree bt878 (Conexant fusion 878A); Demodulator: MT352 (Samsung MT352CG)
|-
| Avermedia AVerTV Studio 307 || Avermedia || Analo) || Linux (using v4l2) ||
|-
| Avermedia TvPhone/Capture 98 || Avermedia || Analog Tuner/S-video/Composite || Windows XP Pro +SP1 || Chipset: Philips Bt878, Drivers: Standart Conexant WDM drivers, Stream: 320x240/400x300, MJPG/WMV2, MP3, NO MUXER
|-
| PixelView Bt878p+ || PixelView || Analog || Windows / Linux (using v4l2) ||
|-
| Technisat AirStar 2 || Technisat || Terrestrial [[DVB-T]] || Linux (using VLS or VLC) || Bridge: B2C2 FlexCop Chipset; Demodulator: ST MT352
|-
| Technisat SkyStar 2 || Technisat || Satellite [[DVB-S]] || Linux (using VLC) ||
|-
| Technisat CableStar 2 || Technisat || Cable [[DVB-C]] || Linux (using VLC) ||
|-
| ATI Rage 128 Pro AIW || ATI Technologies || Analog || Windows 2000 DirectShow (not XP) || Must enter "YUV12" into the "Video input chroma format" field in the "Advanced options (DirectShow input)" dialog
|-
| ATI AIW 9800 PRO || ATI Technologies || Analog || Windows || uses ATI Rage Threatre chip, software decoder
|-
| ATI AIW 2006 PCI-E || ATI Technologies || Analog || Windows XP ||
|-
| Winfast TV2000/Expert || Leadtek || Analog Tuner/S-video/Composite || Windows XP Pro || Chipset: CX2388X 10bit ADC
|-
| Osprey 230 || Viewsonic || Composite/S-Video || Windows XP/2000 DirectShow || Simulstream works with multiple VLC streams & VLM
|-
| DVC100 (Dazzle, Rev:1.1) || Pinnacle || Composite/S-Video || Windows XP DirectShow || No sound, only picture. Pinnacle support giving no solution (09/2006)

|-
| Travel TV (PCMCIA/Cardbus) || Chronos || Analog Tuner/S-video/Composite || Linux (using v4l2) || Chipset: Philips SAA7134, not autodetected, use modprobe with card=67 (Behold)
|-
| Technisat SkyStar 1 CI || Technisat || Satellite [[DVB-S]] || Linux (using VLC). || Works with scrambler module, 1 program for transponder only (Viaccess tested only)
|}

<span id="MPEG2_capture_on_windows_possibly_broken_fn">*</span> "I have the same problem being unable to stream directly from my Hauppauge PVR 150 to the network. It looks like VLC tries to connect to a wrong output-pin of the "Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture" filter called "Capture" (see log "trying pin Capture" ...). When building a filter graph using graphedit I use the output pin "656" and connect it to a filter called "Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Encoder" which has an input pin called "656" and and MPEG output pin. This works fine in graphedit - I get MPEG video and audio this way."

Related topics: [[How to Use a Capture Card]]

Useful Linux links: [http://www.linuxtv.org/ LinuxTV] and [http://ivtvdriver.org/ IVTV]

== Appliance Encoders ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Product || Vendor || Opinion || OS || Contact
|-
| VBrick MPEG2 || VBrick || Main Level, Main Profile 4:2:0. ISMA SAP announcements supported by VLC || Windows/MacOSX/Linux || http://www.vbrick.com (US) http://www.techex.co.uk (Europe)
|-
| VBrick MPEG4 || VBrick || MPEG4 RTSP stream works, ISMA SAP announcements supported by VLC || Windows/MacOSX/Linux || http://www.vbrick.com (US) http://www.techex.co.uk (Europe)
|}

== IP Cameras ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Product || Vendor || Opinion || OS
|-
| Axis 230 MPEG-2 || Axis || http stream works fine with VLC || Windows/MacOSX/Linux...
|-
| Axis 207 || Axis || MPEG4 rtsp stream also works fine || Windows/MacOSX/Linux...
|}

== Webcams (USB) ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Product || Vendor || Opinion || OS
|-
| StarCam 370i || MSI || udp stream works fine with VLC || Windows
|-
| 150 Spacecam Portable || Trust || works with VLC || Windows

|}

Quality

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=Quality Assurance=

This section of this wiki is about helping to increase the quality of different versions of VideoLAN's products, and mainly [[VLC media player]].

==Why this page ?==
===Main idea===
There is not much yet on this page, but the idea is to develop ''test protocols'', regroup ''test files'', and at the end improve the whole quality of VLC, to avoid ''regressions'' and check ''roadmaps.''

===Who is concerned===
The community of VideoLAN's numerous users and developers can enforce the project by doing systematic tests and report bugs and regressions. Some projects rely on a lot of external code that evolves a lot. Being '''numerous''' can help to make it better.

===Bugs===
The '''bugs''' should be tracked down and killed using [http://trac.videolan.org trac]

==Why should you get involved ?==
The '''more''' we are, the more bugs are spotted, the best VLC is !
Easy, ain't it ?

So if '''you''' help, everyone will be a winner.

==How can you get involved ?==
Use this talk page or contact; for a start [[User_talk:J-b]] (this will change).
Then, just run the tests and modify this wiki's pages.

===Bug reporting===
Use trac to do these.

==Urgent==
* Prepare the tests for VLC 0.8.6
* Gather original and references video and audio files

=VLC=
Motto: ''Let's improve VLC !!!''

==Tests to run==
You want to help testing VLC ? There are a few tests that you can handle:
* VLC functionnality tests
* VLC playback tests
* VLC transcode and streaming tests

==Files==
This is an easy TODO: we have to get or link to the best files we can, that VLC should be able to read.
Those files should be references files for each codec, and files that combines codecs.

Where to search:
* VLC streams FTP
* MPlayer's FTP
* References codecs pages usually, linking to those should be enough...
* Files you did.

==Versions roadmaps==
===0.8.6===
=MiniSAPServers=

=VLS=

Intellectual Property

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== Code Copyright ==

Most of the copyright of the projects and software belongs to [http://www.videolan.org/team/ Videolan's team] and to the [http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/browser/trunk/AUTHORS authors].

Some files are naming some other copyrights and authors. If you need, check them all in the latest [[SVN]].

Note: "Open Source" does not mean it does not infringe on patents. Most MPEG encoding and decoding is patented and requires payment of royalites for any use.

== License ==

'''VideoLAN''' produces free software projects under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License].
The License is under the COPYING file of the SVN and all the tarballs.

== Redistribution / Copying ==

You can redistribute, copy and modify any GPL software, including VideoLAN's, but you have to conform to the LICENSE, which is mainly that you have to provide the source code and use a LICENSE compatible with the GPL. If you don't understand, please check this article about
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL GPL on Wikipedia].

===[[FAQ]]===

== Names / Trademark ==
The official name of the project is '''VideoLAN'''.

The official name of [[VLC media player|VLC]] is '''VLC media player'''. It used to be called ''VideoLAN Client'', but this is not true anymore.

''VLC'' is the familiar name of '''VLC media player'''.

The soppera-cone is the official icon of the program. http://download.videolan.org/images/goodies/cone-soppera10-moyen.png

The official names of [[VLS]] are '''VLS''' and '''VideoLAN Server'''.

VideoLAN projects

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== VideoLAN projects ==
=== Active projects ===

Here is a short list of the main [[VideoLAN projects|projects]] hosted by the VideoLAN project:

* [[VLC media player]], the core and main program, is a complete video solution that is a player, a live transcoder and a streamer.
* [[MiniSAPServer]] is a SAP server.
* [[x264]], a free H264 / AVC encoder.

=== Libraries ===
* [[libdvdcss]], a C library to access DVDs without having to bother about the decryption.
* [[libdvbpsi]], a C library to decode and generate MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables.
* [[libdca]], a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder.

=== Deprecated, old projects and libraries ===
* [[VLS]] is a streaming server, used for professional streaming solutions. [[VLC|VLC]] can now do the same. Please use [[VLC|VLC]].
* ''VLCS'', the mini VideoLAN Channel Server, can tell the client what is the multicast address associated to a channel.
* ''VLMS'', the VideoLAN Mini Server.

* [http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdplay/ libdvdplay], is a simple library designed for DVD navigation. It depends on libdvdread (which can optionally use libdvdcss). Use libdvdnav.

== SVN Hosted by VideoLAN projects ==
* [http://liba52.sourceforge.net/ liba52]
* [http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/ libmpeg2]

== See also ==
* '''See also [[:Category:VideoLAN projects]]'''

[[Category:About VideoLAN]] [[Category:VideoLAN projects]]