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<div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to [[Documentation: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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*[[VideoLAN|VideoLAN]]
*[[VLC|VLC media player]]
*[[Documentation:Documentation|Documentation]]
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*[http://www.videolan.org Main Site]
*[http://forum.videolan.org Forum]
*[http://planet.videolan.org News from developers]
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*[http://www.videolan.org/developers/ Developer's website]
*[http://nightlies.videolan.org Latest builds]
*[http://trac.videolan.org Trac, Bugs, SVN and roadmap]
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''Pages in the "Documentation" namespace are part of the official VLC media player documentation.''

''All pages in this namespace are licensed under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License].''

'''Note: many parts of this documentation are currently outdated / obsolete. If you have good knowledge of a particular subject and feel that it could be documented better, please update the appropriate wiki page.'''

== [[Documentation:VLC for dummies| VLC for dummies: an introduction to VLC]] ==
This document will be an introduction to VLC from version 0.9.0 and above. '''UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''

== [[Documentation:Play HowTo|VLC Play HowTo]] ==

User documentation for everyone.

*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Introduction to VLC|Introduction to VideoLAN and VLC]]
**Overview and history of the VideoLAN project.
*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Installing VLC|Installation]]
**Installation instructions for a variety of computers.
*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Basic Use|VLC Usage]]
**How to play audio/video materials with the VLC media player. (For versions 0.9 and newer)
*[[Documentation:Play_HowTo/Advanced Use of VLC|Advanced Use]]
**Advanced instruction on streams, filters, plug-ins and more.
*[[Documentation:WebPlugin|Using VLC inside a webpage]]
**How to build webpages that use the VLC Web plugin.

== [[Documentation:Streaming HowTo|VLC Streaming HowTo]] ==

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 '''OUTDATED'''

'''NOTE: See [[Documentation:Streaming HowTo New|Streaming HowTo New]] for more updated information regarding streaming (WIP).'''

== [[Documentation:Hacker's Guide|The Hacker's Guide to VLC]] ==

This document will detail the inner workings of VLC and its source code. '''UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''

== [[Documentation:Modules|The VLC Modules Index]] ==

This document references most of the VLC modules and their options as well as some example uses. '''UNDER CONSTRUCTION (available content is up to date)'''

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