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== Advice for VLC on your platform... ==
 
== Advice for VLC on your platform... ==

Revision as of 16:25, 14 December 2006

Welcome to Videolan's Wiki,
The reference documentation and tips on VideoLAN's projects.
761 articles


What is VideoLAN ?

VideoLAN is an Open Source team and a community that develop and support video projects.

VideoLAN produces free software projects under the GNU General Public License.

VideoLAN infos

See how you can contact the team.

VideoLAN projects

Here is a short list of the 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.
  • 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.
  • MiniSAPServer is a SAP server.
  • 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.

Official Documentation

Knowledge Base

Our Knowledge Base has information on

FAQ

VLC media player

Get VLC! Download VLC!

What is VLC media player ??

Advice for VLC on your platform...

Tips and Tricks

HELP

In this section, you can find how you can help the VideoLAN project, you being a programmer or not.

Developers Corner

VideoLAN is also a development community that you can join.

You can help videolan by developing, doing artwork, promoting us, ...

The Developers Corner contains various information relative to development: Howtos, work in progress, ...

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. 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. See our info on bug reporting.

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