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

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 GPL Licence. Here is a short list of the projects :

  • VLC, the more common 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

Did you know...

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VideoLAN is made up of two programs:

  • VLC media player, the more common program, plays many types of media files and streamed media. It can create media streams and save media files in different formats and quality than the original file.
  • VLS, or VideoLAN Server is a streaming server, used for professional streaming solutions. It shares some features with VLC.

VLC media player

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Knowledge Base

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Tips and Tricks

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, ...

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