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<p>MGL: French spelling</p> <hr /> <div>== The History of VideoLAN ==<br /> <br /> (this is still incomplete but it should give the background info people are likely to be looking for)<br /> <br /> The [http://www.videolan.org VideoLAN project] was started as a school project in 1996 by students of [http://www.ecp.fr École 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.)<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> 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!<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> == Misc ==<br /> <br /> [http://people.videolan.org/~dionoea/servers/ The VideoLAN project's servers]<br /> <br /> == Related Pages ==<br /> * [[VLC CodeNames]]<br /> <br /> {{stub}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:About VideoLAN]]</div>

MGL https://wiki.videolan.org/index.php?title=VLC_media_player&diff=14841 2009-10-23T13:49:59Z

<p>MGL: minor issue with template usage.</p> <hr /> <div>{{wikipedia|VLC media player|VLC media player}}<br /> :''Download VLC from '''[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC's Homepage]''' ''<br /> '''VLC media player''' ([[History|initially]] VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats ([[MPEG]], [[DivX]]/[[Xvid]], [[Ogg]], and ''many'' more) as well as [[DVD]]s, [[VCD]]s, and various [[stream]]ing protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.<br /> <br /> It started as a student project at the French [http://www.ecp.fr/index_html_en École Centrale, Paris] but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries. ([[History|more]]).<br /> <br /> VLC is built in a modular way. This means that you can choose from a range of different [[modules]] to decide how to [[Interface|control]] VLC and how to display the [[video output]].<br /> <br /> Check the [http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS NEWS].<br /> <br /> == Use VLC on your OS ==<br /> === [[Linux]] ===<br /> * [[GNU/Linux Debian]]<br /> * [[Ubuntu|GNU/Linux Ubuntu]]<br /> * [[RedHat|GNU/Linux RedHat]]<br /> * [[Mandriva|GNU/Linux Mandriva (formerly Mandrake)]]<br /> * [[Gentoo|GNU/Linux Gentoo]]<br /> * [[SuSe|GNU/Linux SuSe]]<br /> * [[Slackware|Slackware GNU/Linux]]<br /> * [[distros |GNU/Linux distros]]<br /> <br /> === Other OS ===<br /> * [[Mac OS X]]<br /> * [[Windows]]<br /> * [[BeOS]]<br /> * [[FreeBSD]]<br /> * [[Windows CE]]<br /> <br /> == Related Links ==<br /> * [[History|History of the project]]<br /> * [[VLC CodeNames]]<br /> * [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC Home page]<br /> * [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html VLC features]<br /> * [[Main Page|VideoLAN Wiki Home]]<br /> <br /> [[Category:Player]] [[Category:VideoLAN projects]]</div>

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