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''Download VLC from '''[http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC's Homepage]''' ''

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats ([[MPEG]], [[DivX]], [[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]].

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Check the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player VLC] article on Wikipedia that has been partly written by the team.

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Check the [http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/NEWS NEWS]

== 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]]
* [[distros |GNU/Linux distros]]

=== Other OS ===
* [[MacOSX|Mac OS X]]
* [[Windows]]
* [[BeOS]]
* [[FreeBSD]]
* [[WinCE]]

== 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]]