VideoLAN

VideoLAN is a software development project comprising two multi-Platform (computing) computer programs—VLC media player and VideoLAN Server (VLS)—and several audio/video decoding and decryption Library (computer science). VideoLAN distributes Free/Libre/Open-Source Software under the GNU General Public License.

The project began as a student endeavour at Ã?cole Centrale Paris, and is now a multinational project with a development team spanning 20 nations.

VideoLANs software applications and libraries enable one to Streaming media 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 (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 Operating Environment, QNX, Sharp Zaurus, and numerous Linux distributions.

=Projects=

VideoLAN s major projects include:

====Applications====

*VLC media player *VideoLAN server

====Libraries====

*Libdca *Libdvdcss *libdvdplay *libdvbpsi

=See also=

*Google Video — uses VideoLAN technology in its media player web browser Plugin

=External links=

*[http://www.videolan.org/ videolan.org] — official site *[http://wiki.videolan.org/index.php/We_Use_VideoLAN We Use VideoLAN] — information about various creative applications of VideoLAN technology *[http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/index-en.html VIA Centrale Réseaux] — student association that manages the network at Ã?cole Centrale Paris; it was within this engineering program that VideoLAN began