2004-03-29 12:37:44 +02:00
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VideoLAN is a project of French students from the Ecole Centrale Paris
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and developers from all over the world. Its main goals is MPEG streaming
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on a network, but it also features a standalone multimedia player. The
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VideoLAN Server can stream video read from a hard disk, a DVD player,
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a satellite card or an MPEG 2 compression card, and unicast or multicast
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it on a network. The VideoLAN Client can read the stream from the network
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and display it. It can also be used to display video read locally on
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the computer : DVDs, VCDs, MPEG and DivX files and from a satellite
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card. It is multi-plaform : Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Solaris,
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QNX, iPaq... The VideoLAN Client and Server now have a full IPv6 support.
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