VideoLAN
From Academic Kids
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. The streaming can be done via a high-bandwidth IPv6 or IPv4 network in unicast or multicast.
VideoLAN is open source software released under the GNU General Public License.
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.
VideoLAN Sub Projects
VideoLAN consists out of several projects including:
External links
- Official VideoLAN Homepage (http://www.videolan.org/)
- Videolan wiki (http://wiki.videolan.org/tiki-index.php)
- Official VIA Homepage (http://www.via.ecp.fr/) (French) - engineering school where VideoLAN development begande:VideoLAN
