The VideoLAN Project
The Project
VideoLAN produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.
It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.
Hosted projects
Although VLC media player is the most well-known VideoLAN project, we do host several other video-related projects, mostly aimed at developers:
- libdvdcss, a C library to access DVDs without having to bother about the decryption.
- libdvbpsi, a C library to decode and generate MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables.
- x264, a H264 / AVC encoder.
- libdca, a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder.
- libdvdplay, a DVD navigation library.
- libdvbcsa, a free implementation of the DVB Common Scrambling Algorithm.
- VLS (VideoLAN Server), our legacy streaming server, which is now mostly replaced by VLC.
- VLMa (VideoLAN Manager), a Java application to manage multiple VLC instances through their telnet interface.
- VLC Skin Editor, a Java application to create skins for VLC media player.
Hosted SVN projects
The project is also helping some projects by providing Subversion server:
Events
We regularly attend computing events, like FOSDEM (Free-software and Open Source Developers European Meeting). We generally come back with some photos and stories.
Contribute!
VideoLAN welcomes all contributions to the project! You can contribute time (development, documentation, packaging, tests, user support, ...), material or even money. See the contribution page for more information.