- VideoLAN
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 renamedVLC media player .The project began as a student endeavor at
École Centrale Paris (France), but after releasing the software under the free software/open sourceGNU General Public License , the project is now multinational with a development team spanning 20 nations (cite web | title = VideoLAN team contact list | url = http://www.videolan.org/team/index.html | access date = 2007-12-28).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 protectedDVD s to be unscrambled,x264 which can encodeH.264/MPEG-4 AVC video andlibdca 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 deamon (called VLMad) and a web interface (called VLMaw).VLMa is released under the GNU General Public License like VLC media player.
Technological Transfer
In
May 2008 ,Neuros Technology andTexas Instruments started working on a port of VideoLAN to their next generation open set-top box. [ [http://open.neurostechnology.com/content/vlc-porting-neuros-open-internet-television-hdplatform VLC Port to Neuros Linux] ]See also
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Google Video — used VideoLAN technology in its media playerweb browser plugin . [ [http://code.google.com/patches.html Open Source Patches and Mirrored Packages - Google Code ] ]
*List of media players
*Comparison of media players References
External links
* [http://www.videolan.org/ videolan.org] — official website
* [http://www.via.ecp.fr/via/index-en.html VIA Centrale Réseaux] — student association that manages the network at École Centrale Paris; it was within this engineering program that VideoLAN began
* [irc://irc.videolan.org/VideoLAN #VideoLAN]
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