| README for the VLC media player | |
| =============================== | |
| 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: | |
| =================== | |
| 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. | |