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What's new?

• September 15: 0.9.2 is out after 2 years of developmnent and features many new functionalities, including a new interface for Windows and Linux. Download it and read the What is cool in 0.9.
• July 12: 0.8.6i is out and fixes security vulnerabilities in the WAV demuxer. Download it and read the list of changes.
• April 21: The students for GSoC 2008 were selected. You can follow their projects here.

What is VideoLAN? VideoLAN is an Open Source team and a community that develop and support video projects. VideoLAN produces free software projects under the GNU General Public License. VideoLAN infos See how you can contact the team. Intellectual Properties, trademarks FAQ Find out who uses VideoLAN VideoLAN in the News Design and goodies VideoLAN's websites VideoLAN projects Here is a short list of the main projects hosted by the VideoLAN project: 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 media player can now do the same. VLS is deprecated and unmaintained. MiniSAPServer is a SAP server. x264, a free H264 / AVC encoder. Libraries 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. libdca, a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder. Discover also lesser known projects.	VLC media player 3.0.12 Download VLC! What is VLC media player? Checkout all the possibilities of what VLC can do Want to know HOW TO do things with VLC? Get help with some Common Problems View some of VLC's Awards VLC on your platform... Mac OS X Windows BeOS GNU/Linux FreeBSD WinCE Tips and Tricks You can download extra Skins for VLC Add different interfaces to control VLC in different ways, such as from mouse gestures or even through the internet. Mad things you can do with VLC Notes about other clients (Interoperability)	Support / Get Help Official Documentation Knowledge Base Our Knowledge Base has information on Codecs Files Dictionary more » FAQ Report Bugs Help the project In this section, you can find how you can help and participate to the VideoLAN project, you being a programmer or not. Help VideoLAN Help topic on the forum Quality Team
	Developers Corner 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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