Welcome to VideoLAN's Documentation, Articles under the GNU General Public License only. The reference documentation on VideoLAN's projects.

This is the VLC media player user documentation for everyone.

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Highlights:

Highlights:

This document explains how to stream, transcode and save streams using the VideoLAN solution.

NOTE: The legacy streaming documentation is still available for reference, if required.

This document details the inner workings of VLC and its source code.

This document references most of the VLC modules and their options as well as some example uses.





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