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Companies

2011-11-21T16:16:48Z

Siva:

Here are the follwing companies which back videoLAN

1. FREE

The French ISP Free S.A.S hosts 3 of our servers in one of their datacenters near Paris.
Free is also using VLC for their FreePlayer project.

Free hosted and sponsored our first DevDays in 2008

2.GANDI

Gandi is a one of most popular registar in France and in Europe. Founded in 1999, and based in Paris and in London, it has had a long history of quality, proximity to people and decent prices.
Gandi has always cultivated its difference and humanity and supports many projects following the VideoLAN's ideals.

Gandi supports VideoLAN by managing their domain names and helping the VideoLAN association in various administrative tasks.

Puget Systems

Puget Systems donated an Echo II to the project to aid in development of GPU acceleration on Intel graphics.
Puget Systems is well known for their quiet computers, exceptional customer service, and the ever popular Aquarium Computer. They offer custom built computers from gaming and desktop, to liquid cooled and trading computers.

Panasonic

Panasonic Deutschland, a division of Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH, borrowed us a SC-XH150 setup consisting of a S/PDIF input capable DVD player and a 5.1 speaker set, which allowed us to fix the optical audio output on OS X Lion.

HP

HP gave a DL 385 server which is now running most of the VideoLAN web sites and developement tools : WWW, Forum, Downloads, SVN and Trac. This web server was shipped with two AMD opteron 2.4 GHz CPUs, 8 GB RAM and 436 GB SCSI hard drives. VideoLAN also won a nice HP laptop at Journées du Libre.

Former partners
IBM

IBM gave servers to VIA to host VideoLAN services and awarded VideoLAN in the Linux Challenge, an international challenge for opensource projects developed by university students.

Companies

2011-11-21T16:14:41Z

Siva:

Here are the follwing companies which back videoLAN

1. FREE

The French ISP Free S.A.S hosts 3 of our servers in one of their datacenters near Paris.
Free is also using VLC for their FreePlayer project.

Free hosted and sponsored our first DevDays in 2008

2.GANDI

Gandi is a one of most popular registar in France and in Europe. Founded in 1999, and based in Paris and in London, it has had a long history of quality, proximity to people and decent prices.
Gandi has always cultivated its difference and humanity and supports many projects following the VideoLAN's ideals.

Gandi supports VideoLAN by managing their domain names and helping the VideoLAN association in various administrative tasks.

Puget Systems

Puget Systems donated an Echo II to the project to aid in development of GPU acceleration on Intel graphics.
Puget Systems is well known for their quiet computers, exceptional customer service, and the ever popular Aquarium Computer. They offer custom built computers from gaming and desktop, to liquid cooled and trading computers.

Panasonic

Panasonic Deutschland, a division of Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH, borrowed us a SC-XH150 setup consisting of a S/PDIF input capable DVD player and a 5.1 speaker set, which allowed us to fix the optical audio output on OS X Lion.

Former partners
IBM

IBM gave servers to VIA to host VideoLAN services and awarded VideoLAN in the Linux Challenge, an international challenge for opensource projects developed by university students.

Companies

2011-11-21T16:13:36Z

Siva: Created page with "Here are the follwing companies which back videoLAN 1. FREE The French ISP Free S.A.S hosts 3 of our servers in one of their datacenters near Paris. Free is also using VLC fo…"

Here are the follwing companies which back videoLAN

1. FREE

The French ISP Free S.A.S hosts 3 of our servers in one of their datacenters near Paris.
Free is also using VLC for their FreePlayer project.

Free hosted and sponsored our first DevDays in 2008

2.GANDI

Gandi is a one of most popular registar in France and in Europe. Founded in 1999, and based in Paris and in London, it has had a long history of quality, proximity to people and decent prices.
Gandi has always cultivated its difference and humanity and supports many projects following the VideoLAN's ideals.

Gandi supports VideoLAN by managing their domain names and helping the VideoLAN association in various administrative tasks.

Puget Systems

Puget Systems donated an Echo II to the project to aid in development of GPU acceleration on Intel graphics.
Puget Systems is well known for their quiet computers, exceptional customer service, and the ever popular Aquarium Computer. They offer custom built computers from gaming and desktop, to liquid cooled and trading computers.

Panasonic

Panasonic Deutschland, a division of Panasonic Marketing Europe GmbH, borrowed us a SC-XH150 setup consisting of a S/PDIF input capable DVD player and a 5.1 speaker set, which allowed us to fix the optical audio output on OS X Lion.

Former partners

IBM
IBM gave servers to VIA to host VideoLAN services and awarded VideoLAN in the Linux Challenge, an international challenge for opensource projects developed by university students.

Documentation:User Guide

2011-11-21T16:03:08Z

Siva:

'''This document is the complete user guide for the VLC media player.'''

'' '''Note''' that most of the documentation is for versions older than 0.9''

User documentation for everyone.

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Introduction to VLC|Introduction to VideoLAN and VLC]]

'''       Overview and history of the VideoLAN project.'''

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Installing VLC|Installation]]

'''       Installation instructions for a variety of computers.'''<br>

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use|VLC Usage]]
**[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Basic_Use/Open|Open Media]]
***How to play audio/video materials with the VLC media player. (For versions 0.9 and newer)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Interface|Interface]]
***Short introduction to the interface of the VLC Media Player
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Audio|Audio]]
***Playing audio (e.g. visualization, selection of devices)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Video|Video]]
***Playing video (e.g. cropping, screen-/snapshots)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Playback|Playback]]
***Navigation through media files (e.g. chapters, bookmarks)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Playlist|Playlist]]
***Creating and managing playlists
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Subtitles|Subtitles]]
***Selection of subtitles
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Video and Audio Filters|Video and Audio Filters]]
***Usage of VLC's filters (equalizer, video filters)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Snapshots|Snapshots]]
***How to create snap-/screenshots
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Hotkeys|Hotkeys]]
***Configuration of VLC's hotkeys
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Basic troubleshooting|Troubleshooting]]
***Solutions for some common problems
*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Advanced Use of VLC|Advanced Use]]
**Advanced instruction on streams, filters, plug-ins and more.
*[[Documentation:WebPlugin|Using VLC inside a webpage]]
**How to build webpages that use the VLC Web plugin.
*[[VLC Uninstall|Uninstallation]]
**Uninstallation instructions.

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use 0.8| VLC Usage 0.8]]. (versions older than 0.9)

===Authors===
* Alexis de Lattre
* Johan Bilien
* Anil Daoud
* Clément Stenac
* Jean-Paul Saman
* Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Copyright (c) 2002-2009 the VideoLAN project

{{GPL}}

==See also==

*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Building Pages for the HTTP Interface|Building Pages for the HTTP Interface]]
*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Format String|Format String]]
*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Building Lua Playlist Scripts|Building Lua Playlist Scripts]]

{{Documentation}}

Copyright © 2002-2009 the VideoLAN project.

Documentation:User Guide

2011-11-21T16:02:34Z

Siva:

{{RightMenu|documentation

'''This document is the complete user guide for the VLC media player.'''

'' '''Note''' that most of the documentation is for versions older than 0.9''

User documentation for everyone.

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Introduction to VLC|Introduction to VideoLAN and VLC]]

'''       Overview and history of the VideoLAN project.'''

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Installing VLC|Installation]]

'''       Installation instructions for a variety of computers.'''<br>

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use|VLC Usage]]
**[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Basic_Use/Open|Open Media]]
***How to play audio/video materials with the VLC media player. (For versions 0.9 and newer)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Interface|Interface]]
***Short introduction to the interface of the VLC Media Player
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Audio|Audio]]
***Playing audio (e.g. visualization, selection of devices)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Video|Video]]
***Playing video (e.g. cropping, screen-/snapshots)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Playback|Playback]]
***Navigation through media files (e.g. chapters, bookmarks)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Playlist|Playlist]]
***Creating and managing playlists
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Subtitles|Subtitles]]
***Selection of subtitles
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Video and Audio Filters|Video and Audio Filters]]
***Usage of VLC's filters (equalizer, video filters)
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Snapshots|Snapshots]]
***How to create snap-/screenshots
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Hotkeys|Hotkeys]]
***Configuration of VLC's hotkeys
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Basic troubleshooting|Troubleshooting]]
***Solutions for some common problems
*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Advanced Use of VLC|Advanced Use]]
**Advanced instruction on streams, filters, plug-ins and more.
*[[Documentation:WebPlugin|Using VLC inside a webpage]]
**How to build webpages that use the VLC Web plugin.
*[[VLC Uninstall|Uninstallation]]
**Uninstallation instructions.

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use 0.8| VLC Usage 0.8]]. (versions older than 0.9)

===Authors===
* Alexis de Lattre
* Johan Bilien
* Anil Daoud
* Clément Stenac
* Jean-Paul Saman
* Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Copyright (c) 2002-2009 the VideoLAN project

{{GPL}}

==See also==

*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Building Pages for the HTTP Interface|Building Pages for the HTTP Interface]]
*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Format String|Format String]]
*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Building Lua Playlist Scripts|Building Lua Playlist Scripts]]

{{Documentation}}

Copyright © 2002-2009 the VideoLAN project.

Help VideoLAN

2011-11-21T15:58:20Z

Siva:

Here are the following ways to help us.

Direct access:
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Designer| designer]]
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Documentation | writer]]
* You are someone who is proficient with computers
* You have good English language skills
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Code|coder in C/C++/ASM]]
* You are a sysadmin (Linux)
* You are a Maintainer/Packager
* You are Google
* You are Microsoft
* You are Coverity
* You are Mozilla
* You are [[Help_VideoLAN#Promote VLC|none of the above]]

== Coder ==
If you are a programmer, you can help us by integrating the project:
* New features
* Features improvement
* Bug Tracking
* Code cleaning
* Porting to a new platform

If don't feel like taking on such a huge task, we suggest you take a look at our [[Code Janitorial|Code Janitorial project page]].

If you don't feel comfortable working on code but are a native speaker of the English language, look at [[QT4StringsReview|Strings Review]].

Also take a look at our [[Mini Projects]] Page.

== Maintainer / Packager ==
If you know how to package for your special distribution/OS, please do so. Help us port {{VLC}} to as many platforms as possible.

== Documentation ==
If you:
* Like writing
* Like VLC
* Have never used VLC
* Run into a problem and end up solving it

'''You can help us make our documentation better!'''

Update the [[Documentation:documentation | documentation]], edit this wiki, create tutorials or provide answers on the [http://forum.videolan.org forum].

Help us give the best support to everyone.

On each of these pages is a "Discussion link" - add something there if you find a page here confusing or incorrect.

== Designer ==
You can help with your design skills by :
* Repairing and updating the websites
* Create new [[skins]]
* Create new icons, screenshots, etc... See the [[VideoLAN_Design|design]] page

== Tester ==
You can test and report bugs.
You can enter the [[quality| quality team]].

== Promote VLC ==
You can help to promote VLC by:
* Subscribing to VLC [http://freshmeat.net/projects/vlc/ on Freshmeat]
* Talking about VLC to your friends and family
* Donating money

See [http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html here] for more details.

[[Category:About VideoLAN]]

Help VideoLAN

2011-11-21T15:57:42Z

Siva:

Here are the following ways to help us.

Direct access:
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Designer| designer]]
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Documentation | writer]]
* You are someone who is proficient with computers
* You have good English language skills
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Code|coder in C/C++/ASM]]
* You are a sysadmin (Linux)
* You are a Maintainer/Packager
* You are Google
* You are Microsoft
* You are Coverity
* You are Mozilla
* You are [[Help_VideoLAN#Promote VLC|none of the above]]

== Code ==
If you are a programmer, you can help us by integrating the project:
* New features
* Features improvement
* Bug Tracking
* Code cleaning
* Porting to a new platform

If don't feel like taking on such a huge task, we suggest you take a look at our [[Code Janitorial|Code Janitorial project page]].

If you don't feel comfortable working on code but are a native speaker of the English language, look at [[QT4StringsReview|Strings Review]].

Also take a look at our [[Mini Projects]] Page.

== Maintainer / Packager ==
If you know how to package for your special distribution/OS, please do so. Help us port {{VLC}} to as many platforms as possible.

== Documentation ==
If you:
* Like writing
* Like VLC
* Have never used VLC
* Run into a problem and end up solving it

'''You can help us make our documentation better!'''

Update the [[Documentation:documentation | documentation]], edit this wiki, create tutorials or provide answers on the [http://forum.videolan.org forum].

Help us give the best support to everyone.

On each of these pages is a "Discussion link" - add something there if you find a page here confusing or incorrect.

== Designer ==
You can help with your design skills by :
* Repairing and updating the websites
* Create new [[skins]]
* Create new icons, screenshots, etc... See the [[VideoLAN_Design|design]] page

== Tester ==
You can test and report bugs.
You can enter the [[quality| quality team]].

== Promote VLC ==
You can help to promote VLC by:
* Subscribing to VLC [http://freshmeat.net/projects/vlc/ on Freshmeat]
* Talking about VLC to your friends and family
* Donating money

See [http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html here] for more details.

[[Category:About VideoLAN]]

Help VideoLAN

2011-11-21T15:56:11Z

Siva:

Here are the following ways to help VideoLAN project.

Direct access:
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Designer| designer]]
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Documentation | writer]]
* You are someone who is proficient with computers
* You have good English language skills
* You are a [[Help_VideoLAN#Code|coder in C/C++/ASM]]
* You are a sysadmin (Linux)
* You are a Maintainer/Packager
* You are Google
* You are Microsoft
* You are Coverity
* You are Mozilla
* You are [[Help_VideoLAN#Promote VLC|none of the above]]

== Code ==
If you are a programmer, you can help us by integrating the project:
* New features
* Features improvement
* Bug Tracking
* Code cleaning
* Porting to a new platform

If don't feel like taking on such a huge task, we suggest you take a look at our [[Code Janitorial|Code Janitorial project page]].

If you don't feel comfortable working on code but are a native speaker of the English language, look at [[QT4StringsReview|Strings Review]].

Also take a look at our [[Mini Projects]] Page.

== Maintainer / Packager ==
If you know how to package for your special distribution/OS, please do so. Help us port {{VLC}} to as many platforms as possible.

== Documentation ==
If you:
* Like writing
* Like VLC
* Have never used VLC
* Run into a problem and end up solving it

'''You can help us make our documentation better!'''

Update the [[Documentation:documentation | documentation]], edit this wiki, create tutorials or provide answers on the [http://forum.videolan.org forum].

Help us give the best support to everyone.

On each of these pages is a "Discussion link" - add something there if you find a page here confusing or incorrect.

== Designer ==
You can help with your design skills by :
* Repairing and updating the websites
* Create new [[skins]]
* Create new icons, screenshots, etc... See the [[VideoLAN_Design|design]] page

== Tester ==
You can test and report bugs.
You can enter the [[quality| quality team]].

== Promote VLC ==
You can help to promote VLC by:
* Subscribing to VLC [http://freshmeat.net/projects/vlc/ on Freshmeat]
* Talking about VLC to your friends and family
* Donating money

See [http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html here] for more details.

[[Category:About VideoLAN]]