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 into 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. [1]
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Projects
VLC
VLS
Codecs
The VideoLAN 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.
VLMa
A new project has been developed, called VLMa (standing for VideoLAN Manager). VLMa is an application to manage broadcasts of TV channels, received through digital terrestrial or satellite ways. Its interface is provided as a web-site written in Java. It is also capable of streaming audio and video files. VLMa consists of a daemon (called VLMad) and a web interface (called VLMaw). VLMa is released under the GNU General Public License like VLC media player.
VLC media player Skin Editor
The VLC Skin Editor is a simple program developed by VideoLAN. The simple interface allows users to create new skins for the VLC Media player without having a knowledge of the VLC Skins2 XML System. The program allows users to change features on the main window, the playlist window, and equalizer window. The current version is 0.8.5 and can be downloaded on the videolan.org website.
Technological Transfer
In May 2008, Neuros Technology and Texas Instruments started working on a port of VideoLAN to their next generation open set-top box. [2]
See also
- Google Video — used VideoLAN technology in its media player web browser plugin.[3]
- List of media players
- Comparison of media players
References
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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