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'''Note: Parts of this documentation are currently outdated or incomplete.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

''Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.''

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

User documentation for everyone. 

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Introduction to VLC|Introduction to VideoLAN and VLC]]

'''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Overview and history of the VideoLAN project.''' 

*[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Installing VLC|Installation]]

'''&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Installation instructions for a variety of computers.'''<br> 

*[[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/Basic Use/Interface|Interface]] 
***Short introduction to the interface of the VLC Media Player 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Audio|Audio]] 
***Playing audio (e.g. visualization, selection of devices) 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Video|Video]] 
***Playing video (e.g. cropping, screen-/snapshots) 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Playback|Playback]] 
***Navigation through media files (e.g. chapters, bookmarks) 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Playlist|Playlist]] 
***Creating and managing playlists 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Subtitles|Subtitles]] 
***Selection of subtitles 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Video and Audio Filters|Video and Audio Filters]] 
***Usage of VLC's filters (equalizer, video filters) 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Snapshots|Snapshots]] 
***How to create snap-/screenshots 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Hotkeys|Hotkeys]] 
***Configuration of VLC's hotkeys 
**[[Documentation:Play HowTo/Basic Use/Basic troubleshooting|Troubleshooting]] 
***Solutions for some common problems 
*[[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. 
*[[VLC Uninstall|Uninstallation]] 
**Uninstallation instructions.

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

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.

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

This document references most of the VLC modules and their options as well as some example uses.


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