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<div style="font-size:162%;border:none;margin: 0;padding:.1em;color:#000">Welcome to [[Main_Page|Videolan's&nbsp;Wiki]],</div>
<div style="top:+0.2em;font-size: 95%">The reference documentation and tips on VideoLAN's projects.</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://developers.videolan.org Developer's website]
*[http://nightlies.videolan.org Latest builds]
*[http://trac.videolan.org Trac, Bugs, SVN and roadmap]
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<h2 style="margin:0; background-color:#f2e0ce;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #bfb1a3;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em .4em;"> What's new? </h2>

* April 19: '''0.8.6b''' is out! [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Download it] and read the [[Release changes#Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b|list of changes]].
* April 12: Projects for the [[SoC 2007|Google Summer of Code]] have been selected: check out the [[SoC 2007 projects|current projects]]!

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What is VideoLAN?</h2>

'''VideoLAN''' is an Open Source team and a ''community'' that develop and support video projects.

'''VideoLAN''' produces free software projects under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License].

== VideoLAN infos ==
See how you can [[contact VideoLAN|contact]] the team.

* [[Intellectual Properties| Intellectual Properties, trademarks]]
* [[Frequently Asked Questions|FAQ]]
* Find out [[We Use VideoLAN|who uses VideoLAN]]
* [[VideoLAN in the News]]
* [[VideoLAN Design| Design and goodies]]
* [[VideoLAN_Sites| VideoLAN's websites]]

== VideoLAN projects ==
Here is a short list of the main [[VideoLAN projects|projects]] hosted by the VideoLAN project:
* [[VLC|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. {{VLC}} can now do the same. ''VLS is deprecated and unmaintained''.
* [[MiniSAPServer]] is a SAP server.
* [[x264]], a free [[H264]] / AVC encoder.

=== Libraries ===
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdvdcss 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.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libdca libdca], a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder.

Discover also [[VideoLAN projects|lesser known projects]].
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<h2 style="margin:0;background:#cedff2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3b0bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">VLC media player {{VLC:latest_version}}</h2>

'''[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Download VLC!]'''

[[VLC| What is VLC media player?]]

* Checkout all the ''possibilities'' of [[What can vlc do?|what VLC can do]]

* Want to know [[how to|HOW TO]] do things with VLC?
* Get help with some [[Common Problems]]
* View some of VLC's [[Awards]]

== VLC on your platform... ==
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* [[MacOSX|Mac OS X]]
* [[Windows]]
* [[BeOS]]
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* [[FreeBSD]]
* [[WinCE]]
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== Tips and Tricks ==
* You can download extra [[Skins]] for VLC
* Add different [[Interface | interfaces]] to control VLC in different ways, such as from [[Mouse Gestures|mouse gestures]] or even [[Web_Interface|through the internet]].
* [[Uncommon uses|Mad things you can do with VLC]]
* [[Notes about other clients]] (Interoperability)
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<h2 style="margin:0;background:#ddcef2;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #afa3bf;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Support / Get Help</h2>
=== [[Documentation:Documentation|Official Documentation]] ===

=== Knowledge Base ===

Our [[Knowledge Base]] has information on
* [[Codec]]s
* [[Fileformat|Files]]
* [[Dictionary]]
* [[Knowledge Base|more &raquo;]]

=== [[Frequently Asked Questions|FAQ]] ===

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<h2 style="margin:0; background-color:#FFA8D3;font-size:120%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#000;padding:0.2em .4em;"> Help the project</h2>
In this section, you can find how you can help and participate to the VideoLAN project, you being a programmer or not.

* [[Help VideoLAN]]
* [http://forum.videolan.org/viewforum.php?f=18 Help topic on the forum]
* [[Quality | Quality Team]]

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VideoLAN is also a development community that you can join. 

You can help videolan by developing, doing artwork, doing translations ...

The [[Developers Corner]] contains various information relative to development: Howtos, work in progress, ...
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== Edit the Wiki! ==

Please note that to modify the content of the Wiki, or to submit articles or FAQ questions, you need to be identified. 

Please create an account, this is very fast. 

'''Checkout the special [[VideoLANWiki:Syntax | VideoLAN wiki syntax]] for this wiki.'''

Feel free to add to this site, however, keep content appropriate and useful. This is not the place to report bugs or to request help. 
[http://www.videolan.org/support/bug-reporting.html See our info on bug reporting].

You can try the wiki syntax in the [[Sandbox]], the test page.