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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.

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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.
• MiniSAPServer is a SAP server.
• x264, a H264 / AVC encoder, that is still under heavy development.

Libraries

• 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.

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Knowledge Base

Our Knowledge Base has information on

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FAQ

VLC media player

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What is VLC media player ??

• Want to know how to do things with VLC?
• Get help with some Common Problems
• View some of VLC's Awards

Advice for VLC on your platform...

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Tips and Tricks

• You can download extra Skins for VLC
• Add Additional Interfaces to control VLC in different ways, such as from mouse gestures or even through the internet.
• Mad things you can do with VLC

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, ...

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