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VideoLAN Quickstart

Alexis de Lattre

Bill Eldridge

Anil Daoud

Mathieu Gautier

Clément Stenac

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation ; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. The text of the license can be found in the appendix GNU Free Documentation License.

Abstract

This document describes how to start using VideoLAN quickly.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1. What is the VideoLAN project ?

1.1. Overview
1.2. VideoLAN software

2. What is a codec ?

3. How can I use VideoLAN ?

3.1. Documentation
3.2. User support

4. Command line usage

4.1. Open a terminal

2. VLC, the universal media player

1. Installing VLC

1.1. Windows
1.2. BeOS
1.3. Mac OS X
1.4. Debian GNU/Linux
1.5. Linux Mandrake
1.6. Linux Redhat
1.7. Compile the sources by yourself (for every other OS)

2. Running VLC

2.1. Read a file
2.2. Read a DVD or a VCD
2.3. Troubleshooting

3. Stream and receive with VLC

1. Unicast an MPEG-1, MPEG-2, or MPEG-4 / DivX file
2. Unicast a DVD
3. Multicast to several VLC's

4. Video On Demand

1. Overview
2. On the server side
3. On the client side

5. Add a channel information service

1. Send announces when streaming with VLC
2. Start VLC(s) on the client(s)

6. Conclusion

A. GNU Free Documentation License

1. PREAMBLE
2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
3. VERBATIM COPYING
4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
5. MODIFICATIONS
6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
9. TRANSLATION
10. TERMINATION
11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

List of Figures

1.1. Global VideoLAN solution
1.2. Windows terminal
1.3. Linux X terminal
1.4. Mac OS X terminal
1.5. BeOS terminal

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