VideoLAN
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VideoLAN is a project that develops software for playing video and other media formats. It originally developed two programs for media streaming—VideoLAN Client (VLC) and VideoLAN Server (VLS)—but most of the features of VLS have been incorporated in to VLC, with the result renamed VLC media player.
The project began as a student endeavor at École Centrale Paris (France), but after releasing the software under the free software/open source GNU General Public License, the project is now multinational with a development team spanning 20 nations (VideoLAN team contact list.).
The project also develops several audio/video decoding and decryption libraries, such as libdvdcss which allows the content of CSS protected DVDs to be unscrambled, x264 which can encode H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video and libdca which can decode DTS audio.
In May 2008, Neuros Technology and Texas Instruments started working on a port of VideoLAN to their next generation open set-top box. [1]
[edit] See also
- Google Video — used VideoLAN technology in its media player web browser plugin.[2]
- List of media players
- Comparison of media players
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- videolan.org — official website
- VIA Centrale Réseaux — student association that manages the network at École Centrale Paris; it was within this engineering program that VideoLAN began
- #VideoLAN
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