VideoLAN
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VideoLAN is a software development project comprising two multi-platform computer programs—VLC media player and VideoLAN Server (VLS)—and several audio/video decoding and decryption libraries. VideoLAN distributes open source software under the GNU license.
The project began as a student endeavour at École Centrale Paris, and is now a multinational project with a development team spanning 20 nations.
VideoLANs software applications and libraries enable one to stream and transcode a wide variety of digital media formats, either from a local data source or across a computer network—without relying on external codecs. VLC and VLS support unicasting and multicasting over IPv6 and IPv4. VLC functions as a standalone media player capable of processing and transcoding digital audio and video signals.
VLC and VLS support a very large number of digital video and audio formats. Among the extensive list of video formats supported by VLC and VLS are: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (H.264, DivX, Xvid, etc.), DVD, DVB-T, and DVB-S.
VideoLAN software is available for a wide variety of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Windows CE, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Sharp Zaurus, and numerous Linux distributions.
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[edit] Projects
VideoLAN's major projects include:
[edit] Applications
- VLC media player
- VideoLAN server
[edit] Libraries
[edit] See also
- Google Video — used VideoLAN technology in its media player web browser plugin
[edit] External links
- videolan.org — official site
- We Use VideoLAN — information about various creative applications of VideoLAN technology
- VIA Centrale Réseaux — student association that manages the network at École Centrale Paris; it was within this engineering program that VideoLAN began
- Portable VLC media player (site) — packaged as portable application for external drive.
- Portable VLC (site) for Mac OS X — packaged as portable application for external drive.
