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VLC Usage Documentation

User documentation for everyone.

• VLC Interface 1.2 on Windows 7
• Basic_Use/Interface_Windows                                                                                                                                                                      
• Basic_Use/Interface_OSX                                                                                                                                                                         DOWNLOAD
• Introduction to VideoLAN and VLC                                                                                                                         http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html                                                                                                                                                                               50x50px http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html    

       Overview and history of the VideoLAN project.                                                                                                        http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html

• Installation                                     100x100px

       Installation instructions for a variety of computers.

• VLC Usage                                    
  • How to play audio/video materials with the VLC media player. (For versions 0.9 and newer)

• Interface                                       
  • Short introduction to the interface of the VLC Media Player

• Audio                                     
  • Playing audio (e.g. visualization, selection of devices)
• Video                                        
  • Playing video (e.g. cropping, screen-/snapshots)
• Playback                                     
  • Navigation through media files (e.g. chapters, bookmarks)
• Playlist                                    
  • Creating and managing playlists
• Subtitles                                  
  • Selection of subtitles
• Video and Audio Filters             

Usage of VLC's filters (equalizer, video filters)

• Snapshots                              
  • How to create snap-/screenshots

• Hotkeys                                 100x100px
  • Configuration of VLC's hotkeys
• Troubleshooting                         
  • Solutions for some common problems
• Advanced Use                        100x100px
  • Advanced instruction on streams, filters, plug-ins and more.
• Using VLC inside a webpage     
  • How to build webpages that use the VLC Web plugin.

Uninstallation                            

• Uninstallation instructions.

Reset Vlc

• In ubantu vlc --reset-config

VLC Streaming Documentation

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

NOTE: See Streaming HowTo New for more updated information regarding streaming (WIP).

The Hacker's Guide to VLC

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

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

The VLC Modules Index

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

INTERFACE

Graphics

Text Other

OUTPUT

Audio output

Video output

Stream output

FILTERS

Audio filters

video filters

video-sub filters

video output filters

visualizations

access filters

OTHER

Accesses

Access Outputs
Codecs
Audio
Video
Subtitles
Demuxers
Playlist

Muxers
Service Discovery

Misc

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