Difference between revisions of "VideoLAN projects"

Revision as of 15:51, 20 January 2007

Here is a short list of the main 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.
MiniSAPServer is a SAP server.
x264, a free H264 / AVC encoder.

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.
libdca, a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder.

VLS is a streaming server, used for professional streaming solutions. The VLC media player can now do the same. Please use the VLC media player.
VLCS, the mini VideoLAN Channel Server, can tell the client what is the multicast address associated to a channel.
VLMS, the VideoLAN Mini Server.

libdvdplay, is a simple library designed for DVD navigation. It depends on libdvdread (which can optionally use libdvdcss). Use libdvdnav.

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 === Deprecated, old projects and libraries ===
-* [[VLS]] is a streaming server, used for professional streaming solutions. [[VLC|VLC]] can now do the same. Please use [[VLC|VLC]].
+* [[VLS]] is a streaming server, used for professional streaming solutions. The VLC media player can now do the same. Please use the VLC media player.
 * ''VLCS'',  the mini VideoLAN Channel Server, can tell the client what is the multicast address associated to a channel.
 * ''VLMS'',  the VideoLAN Mini Server.