VLC - the cross-platform media player and streaming server
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
Updated 16 May 2008 18:01 UTC
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by Halleck
VLC player is great because it is extremely versatile. While it lacks the polish you might find in another media player (and thankfully, also the bloat) you can get it to play *nearly* any type of multimedia including DVDs (VOB) and Flash Video (FLV), and it can even transcode between a huge variety of formats. It is also good at playing incomplete or damaged files, including partial downloads and damaged DVDs which can be handy.
It runs on a
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by cane
This is a nice A/V-player. I use it exclusively for video files, and it works just fine.
It has, nonetheless, some serious limitations. For example: it does not support Real* stuff which makes those kind of streams problematic, and it has a really cumbersome interface when in full-screen mode.
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The VideoLAN team is pleased to announce the release of VideoLAN Manager 0.1.VideoLAN Manager (VLMa) is a Java application which aims to provide an easy way to manage several servers running VLC to stream over a multicast network.More information at http://www.videolan.org/vlma.
This is just a very short post about a cool hack made by someone on the VideoLAN forum: VLC&Coverflow.
This webpage uses Flash technology to let you choose the movie you want, in a CoverFlow-Like mode.
When selected, you can get
The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google's website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren't chosen ... and start coding if you were!
The VideoLAN project was assigned 14 slots by Google. 10 of those went to VLC related projects and 4 to x264 projects. Official results are available on Google's website. Thanks to all the students who posted an application. Sorry to those who weren't chosen ... and start coding if you were!
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This blog was calm last week, since I was invited to a Webbys Award event in London.
This event was focused on the .org community and the importance of having a .org for some non-profit association.
I made a
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