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<div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to [[Main_Page|Videolan's&nbsp;Wiki]],</div>
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<div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">The reference documentation and tips on VideoLAN's projects.</div>
 
<div id="articlecount" style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:85%;">[[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles in English</div>
 
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*[[VideoLAN|VideoLAN]]
 
*[[VLC|VLC media player]]
 
*[[Documentation:Documentation|Documentation]]
 
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*[http://www.videolan.org Main Site]
 
*[http://forum.videolan.org Forum]
 
*[http://planet.videolan.org News from developers]
 
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*[http://developers.videolan.org Developer's website]
 
*[http://nightlies.videolan.org Latest builds]
 
*[http://trac.videolan.org Trac, Bugs, SVN and roadmap]
 
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What is VideoLAN ?</h2>
 
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|style="color:#000"| VideoLAN is an Open Source team and a community that develop and support video projects.
 
VideoLAN produces free software projects under the GNU GPL Licence.
 
 
 
== VideoLAN infos ==
 
See how you can [[contact]] the team.
 
 
 
[[Intellectual Properties]]
 
 
 
[[FAQ]]
 
* Find out [[We Use VideoLAN|who uses VideoLAN]]
 
* View VideoLAN's [[Awards]]
 
* [[VideoLAN in the News]]
 
 
 
== VideoLAN's projects ==
 
Here is a short list of the projects linked more or less closely to the VideoLAN project:
 
* [[VLC| VLC media player]], the core and main program, is a complete video solution that can play many types of media files and streamed media. It can also create media streams, save and transcode media files in different formats and quality than the original file.
 
 
 
* [[VLS]] is a streaming server, used for professional streaming solutions. It shares some features with VLC. '''It is deprecated and unmaintained'''.
 
* [[VLCS]] '''It is deprecated and unmaintained'''.
 
* [[VLMS]] '''It is deprecated and unmaintained'''.
 
* [[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.
 
* [[x264]], a H264 / AVC encoder, that is still under heavy development.
 
* [[libdca]], a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder.
 
* [[libdvdplay]], a DVD navigation library.
 
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* [[Knowledge Base]]
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[[VLC| What is VLC media player ??]]
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* [[Help VideoLAN|Join the project]]
 
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* Want to know [[How to|how to]] do things with VLC?
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* Get help with some [[Common Problems]]
 
 
 
 
 
Advice for VLC on your platform...
 
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* [[VLCMacOSX|Mac OS X]]
 
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* [[:Category:Building|Compile VLC]]
* You can download extra [[Skins]] for VLC
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* [[Developers_Corner|Develop on VLC]]
* Add [[Additional Interfaces]] to control VLC in different ways, such as from [[Mouse Gestures|mouse gestures]] or even [[Web_Interface|through the internet]].
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* [[Control VLC instance|Control, Extend VLC]]
* [[Uncommon uses|Mad things you can do with VLC]]
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* [[libVLC|Use libVLC SDK]]
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* [[x264]]
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=== [[Documentation:Documentation|Official Documentation]] ===
 
  
=== Knowledge Base ===
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'''[[VideoLAN]]''' is a ''[[VideoLAN Team|team]]'' and a ''[[Contribute|community]]'' that develop and support [[open source]] [[:Category:VideoLAN_projects|video projects]].
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{{VLC}} {{VLC:latest_version}} is a multimedia player which plays all media formats on all platforms.
  
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'''[https://videolan.org/vlc/ Download VLC!]'''
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=== Developers Corner ===
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=== Edit the Wiki! ===
VideoLAN is also a development community that you can join.
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This website is a [[wikipedia:Wiki|Wiki]], so please edit it! Please keep content appropriate and useful.
 
 
You can help videolan by developing, doing artwork, promoting us, ...
 
  
The [[Developers Corner]] contains various information relative to development: Howtos, work in progress, ...
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To modify the contents of this wiki, you need to [[Special:CreateAccount|create an account]], which is very fast.
 
 
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=== Edit the Wiki! ===
 
  
Please note that to modify the content of the Wiki, or to submit articles or FAQ questions, you need to be identified. Please create an account, this is very fast.
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'''NOTE:''' This is not the place to [[report bugs]] or to [https://forum.videolan.org request help].
Feel free to add to this site, however, keep content appropriate and useful. This is not the place to report bugs or to request help. [http://www.videolan.org/support/bug-reporting.html See our info on bug reporting].
 
  
=== More on... ===
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''Check out our [[VideoLAN Wiki:Syntax|VideoLAN wiki syntax]] and our [[Sandbox|test page]].''
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Latest revision as of 03:33, 21 November 2019



What is VideoLAN?

VideoLAN is a team and a community that develop and support open source video projects.

What is VLC?

VLC media player 3.0.12 is a multimedia player which plays all media formats on all platforms.

Download VLC!


Edit the Wiki!

This website is a Wiki, so please edit it! Please keep content appropriate and useful.

To modify the contents of this wiki, you need to create an account, which is very fast.

NOTE: This is not the place to report bugs or to request help.

Check out our VideoLAN wiki syntax and our test page.