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Encyclopedia > VideoLAN
VideoLAN

VLC for Mac OS X playing the film San Francisco Earthquake aftermath, 1906
Developer: VideoLAN team
Latest release: 0.8.6 /
OS: Cross-platform
Use: Media player
License: GPL
Website: http://www.videolan.org/

VideoLAN is a software development project comprising two multi-platform computer programsVLC media player and VideoLAN Server (VLS)—and several audio/video decoding and decryption libraries. VideoLAN distributes open source software under the GNU license. VideoLAN logo File links The following pages link to this file: VLC media player Categories: Logos ... Image File history File links VLC-0. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... San Francisco Earthquake aftermath, 1906. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... A software release refers to the creation and availability of a new version of a computer software product. ... An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... Software development is the translation of a user need or marketing goal into a software product. ... In computing, a platform describes some sort of framework, either in hardware or software, which allows software to run. ... A computer program is a collection of instructions that describe a task, or set of tasks, to be carried out by a computer. ... The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GNU General Public License. ... A Codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. ... // In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge. ... Illustration of an application which may use libvorbisfile. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a free operating system consisting of a kernel, libraries, system utilities, compilers, and end-user applications. ...


The project began as a student endeavour at École Centrale Paris(France), and is now a multinational project with a development team spanning 20 nations. École Centrale Paris is one of the leading French Grandes Écoles of engineering. ... One of the most influential doctrines in history is that all humans are divided into groups called 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. Streaming media is media that is consumed (heard or viewed) (mostly in the form of clips) while it is being delivered. ... Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion from one (usually lossy) codec to another. ... A computer network is a system for communication between computers. ... A Codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. ... In computer networks, unicast is the sending of information packets to a single destination. ... Routing Schemes anycast broadcast multicast unicast Multicast is sometimes also used to refer to a multiplexed broadcast, although that is a very different thing and should not be confused. ... Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer IP standard used by electronic devices to exchange data across a packet-switched internetwork. ... Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth iteration of the Internet Protocol (IP) and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. ... Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files. ...


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. MPEG-1 defines a group of Audio and Video (AV) coding and compression standards agreed upon by MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group). ... MPEG-2 is a standard for the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information [1]. It is widely used around the world to specify the format of the digital television signals that are broadcast by terrestrial (over-the-air), cable, and direct broadcast satellite TV systems. ... MPEG-4 is a standard used primarily to compress audio and video (AV) digital data. ... H.264 is a high compression digital video codec standard written by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). ... DivX is a video codec created by DivX, Inc. ... XviD is a free and open source MPEG-4 video codec. ... DVD (sometimes called Digital Versatile Disc, or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... DVB-T stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television. ... DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 300 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC...


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. An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of operating systems by Microsoft. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through the 386BSD and 4. ... NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-like BSD computer operating system. ... OpenBSD is a freely available Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Computer, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently shipping Macintosh computers. ... BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ... QNX (pronounced either Q-N-X or Q-nix) is a commercial POSIX-compliant Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. ... Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 running OpenZaurus and OPIE, with docking cradle and stylus The Sharp Zaurus is the name of a series of Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) made by Sharp Corporation. ... A Linux distribution is a Unix-like operating system comprising the Linux kernel and other assorted free software/open-source software, and possibly proprietary software. ...

Contents

Projects

VideoLAN's major projects include:


Applications

The VLC media player is an open source media player, distributed under the GNU General Public License. ...

Libraries

libdca is a GPLd software library that can decode the DTS Coherent Acoustics audio format, developed by Gildas Bazin. ... libdvdcss is a highly portable library for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the CSS system. ... x264 is a free software library for encoding H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video streams. ...

See also

Free software Portal

Image File history File links Portal. ... Google Video is a free Google service that allows anyone to upload video clips to Googles web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge or through Google Video Store for a cost that they can set. ... An example of a web browser (Mozilla Firefox running under Microsoft Windows). ... A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that interacts with a main application (a web browser or an email program, for example) to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. ...

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.

  Results from FactBites:
 
97cv00296 Berti v Videolan Technologies, et al - 5/9/97 Complaint (2652 words)
Videolan is headquartered in this District in Louisville, Kentucky, and many of the acts giving rise to the violations complained of, including the dissemination of false and misleading public statements, occurred in this District.
Videolan stock and warrants were actively traded on the NASDAQ during the Class Period under the symbols VLNT and VLNTW, respectively.
Videolan purports to be engaged in the development of communications products which utilize the Company's proprietary technology to transmit and receive real time, interactive video, voice and data signals to and from desktop personal computers ("PC's").
VideoLAN - definition of VideoLAN in Encyclopedia (152 words)
VideoLAN is a computer software project for multimedia video streaming of a wide variety of formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestrial television channels and live videos.
VideoLAN also features a cross-plaform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under a variety of computer operating systems including Windows, all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX.
VideoLAN was originally a students' project at École Centrale Paris, a French engineering school.
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