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:

  • liba52, a free ATSC A/52 stream decoder.
  • libmpeg2, a free MPEG-2 video stream decoder

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.