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| style="width:280px;text-align:center;white-space:nowrap;color:#000" | <div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to [[Documentation|VideoLAN's&nbsp;Documentation]],</div> <div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">The reference documentation on VideoLAN's projects.</div> <div id="articlecount" style="width:100%;text-align:center;font-size:85%;">Articles under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License] only.</div>
 
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== [[Documentation:Streaming HowTo New|VLC streaming documentation]]  ==
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This document explains how to stream, transcode and save streams using the VideoLAN solution.
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<br> ''Pages in the "Documentation" namespace are part of the official VLC media player documentation.''
 
  
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''All pages in this namespace are licensed under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License].''  
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''NOTE: The [[Documentation:Streaming HowTo|legacy streaming documentation]] is still available for reference, if required.''
  
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'''Note: Parts of this documentation are currently outdated or incomplete. If you have good knowledge of a particular subject and feel that it could be documented better, please update the appropriate wiki page.'''
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*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Interface OSX|Basic_Use/Interface_OSX]]&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;'''''DOWNLOAD'''''
 
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*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Installing VLC|Installation]]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;[[Image:Installer.png|100x100px]]
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Latest revision as of 05:54, 27 April 2019

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VLC User Guide

This is the VLC media player user documentation for everyone.

Read the complete table of contents.

Highlights:

VLC documentation for mobile devices

Highlights:

VLC streaming documentation

This document explains how to stream, transcode and save streams using the VideoLAN solution.

NOTE: The legacy streaming documentation is still available for reference, if required.

Hacker's Guide to VLC

This document details the inner workings of VLC and its source code.

The VLC Modules Index

This document references most of the VLC modules and their options as well as some example uses.


Contribute to the documentation

Nota Bene: Parts of this documentation are currently outdated or incomplete. If you have good knowledge or feel that you could document it better, please update the appropriate wiki page.

This page is part of official VLC media player Documentation (User Guide • Streaming HowTo • Hacker Guide • Modules)
Please read the Documentation Editing Guidelines before you edit the documentation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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