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Welcome to VideoLAN's Documentation, The reference documentation on VideoLAN's projects. Articles under the GNU General Public License only.

VideoLAN VLC media player Documentation

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VLC User Guide

This is the VLC media player user documentation for everyone.

Read the complete table of contents.

Highlights:

• Quick Start Guide
• Install VLC
• Main VLC interface
• Open a media file
• VLC command line

VLC documentation for mobile devices

Highlights:

• Documentation for iOS
• Documentation for Android

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.

• Audio Filters
• Core
• Modules source tree
• VLM Internals
• Requirements Documentation

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Nota Bene: Parts of this documentation are currently outdated or incomplete.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)
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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.