README for the VLC media player
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VLC is a popular libre and open source media player and multimedia engine,
used by a large number of individuals, professionals, companies and
institutions. Using open source technologies and libraries, VLC has been
ported to most computing platforms, including GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X,
BSD, iOS and Android.
VLC can play most multimedia files, discs, streams, allows playback from
devices, and is able to convert to or stream in various formats.
The VideoLAN project was started at the university École Centrale Paris who
relicensed VLC under the GPLv2 license in February 2001. Since then, VLC has
been downloaded close to one billion times.
Links:
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The VLC web site . . . . . http://www.videolan.org/
Support . . . . . . . . . . http://www.videolan.org/support/
Forums . . . . . . . . . . http://forum.videolan.org/
Wiki . . . . . . . . . . . http://wiki.videolan.org/
The Developers site . . . . http://wiki.videolan.org/Developers_Corner
VLC hacking guide . . . . . http://wiki.videolan.org/Hacker_Guide
Bugtracker . . . . . . . . http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/
The VideoLAN web site . . . http://www.videolan.org/
Source Code Content:
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ABOUT-NLS - Notes on the Free Translation Project.
AUTHORS - VLC authors.
COPYING - The GPL license.
COPYING.LIB - The LGPL license.
INSTALL - Installation and building instructions.
NEWS - Important modifications between the releases.
README - This file.
THANKS - VLC contributors.
bin/ - VLC binaries.
bindings/ - libVLC bindings to other languages.
compat/ - compatibility library for operating systems missing
essential functionalities.
contrib/ - Facilities for retrieving external libraries and building
them for systems that don't have the right versions.
doc/ - Miscellaneous documentation.
extras/analyser - Code analyser and editor specific files.
extras/buildsystem - different buildsystems specific files.
extras/misc - Files that don't fit in the other extras/ categories.
extras/package - VLC packaging specific files such as spec files.
extras/tools/ - Facilities for retrieving external building tools needed
for systems that don't have the right versions.
include/ - Header files.
lib/ - libVLC source code.
modules/ - VLC plugins and modules. Most of the code is here.
po/ - VLC translations.
share/ - Common Resources files.
src/ - libvlccore source code.
test/ - testing system.
Forked from
VideoLAN / VLC
50709 commits behind the upstream repository.
Sesse
authored
This is an inclusion of a patch that has been living out-of-tree for some time, but now as Cubemap 1.0.0 has been released and the protocol has been frozen, it would sound reasonable to get it into mainline. Essentially it makes the VLC HTTP server support the Metacube protocol, which is a framing format to let an external reflector know where the start and end of the blocks are without having to understand the format itself (similar to how the VLC HTTP server itself gets to know this information). This lets it serve the correct header block to new clients joining in the middle of the stream, and makes sure new clients don't start in the middle of a block, which is a problem for non-self-synchronizing formats (such as FLV and WebM). It includes self-synchronization and header checksumming to ensure smooth recovery from overruns in the server-to-reflector TCP stream. The only consumer of this protocol currently, and for the foreseeable future, is Cubemap (http://git.sesse.net/?p=cubemap ), a scalable video reflector designed to be used with VLC. Signed-off-by:Denis Charmet <typx@dinauz.org>
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