Documentation:User Guide

This is the user guide for the VLC media player.

• Introduction to VideoLAN and VLC: Overview and history of the VideoLAN project.

• Installation: Installation instructions for several systems.
• Basic use.
  • Open Media: How to play audio and video with VLC.
  • Interfaces. Short introduction to the interface of the VLC Media Player.
    • OSX 1.2 Interface
    • Windows 7 1.2 Interface
  • Playing audio (e.g. visualization, selection of devices).
  • Playing video (e.g. cropping, screen-/snapshots).
  • Playback: Navigation through media files (e.g. chapters, bookmarks).
  • Playlist: Creating and managing playlists.
  • Subtitles.
  • Video and Audio Filters.
  • Snapshots: How to create snapshots and screenshots.
  • Hotkeys.
  • Troubleshooting: Solutions for some common problems.
• Advanced Use: Advanced instruction on streams, filters, plug-ins and more.
• Using VLC inside a webpage: How to create webpages that use the VLC Web plugin.
• Uninstallation.
• VLC Use 0.8. (Versions older than 0.9).

Authors

• Alexis de Lattre
• Johan Bilien
• Anil Daoud
• Clément Stenac
• Jean-Paul Saman
• Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Copyright (c) 2002-2009 the VideoLAN project

This file is under the GNU General Public License (any version ever published).

See also

• Building Pages for the HTTP Interface
• Format String
• Building Lua Playlist Scripts

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.

Copyright © 2002-2009 the VideoLAN project.