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'''VLC media player''' ([[History|initially]] VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats ([[MPEG]], [[DivX]]/[[Xvid]], [[Ogg]], and ''many'' more) as well as [[DVD]]s, [[VCD]]s, and various [[stream]]ing protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats to our network and the Internet.

It started as a student project at the French [http://www.ecp.fr/index_html_en École Centrale, Paris] but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries. ([[History|more]]).

VLC is built in a modular way. This means that you can choose from a range of different [[modules]] to decide how to [[Interface|control]] VLC and how to display the [[video output]].

== Use VLC on your OS  ==

=== [[Linux]]  ===
*[[GNU/Linux Debian]] 
*[[Ubuntu|GNU/Linux Ubuntu]] 
*[[RedHat|GNU/Linux RedHat]] 
*[[Mandriva|GNU/Linux Mandriva (formerly Mandrake)]] 
*[[Gentoo|GNU/Linux Gentoo]] 
*[[SuSe|GNU/Linux SuSe]] 
*[[Slackware|Slackware GNU/Linux]] 
*[[Pardus|GNU/Linux Pardus]] 
*[[Distros|GNU/Linux distros]]

=== Other OS  ===
*[[Mac OS X]] 
*[[Windows]] 
*[[BeOS]] 
*[[FreeBSD]] 
*[[Windows CE]]

== Related Links ==
* [[History|History of the project]]
* [[VLC CodeNames]]
* [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC Home page]
* [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html VLC features]
* [[Main Page|VideoLAN Wiki Home]]

[[Category:Player]] [[Category:VideoLAN projects]]