VideoLAN
The VideoLAN Project
The VideoLAN project is a project, lead and composed by a team of volunteers, that believes in the power of open source when dealing with multimedia.
VideoLAN produces free software for multimedia, released under the GNU General Public License.
History
The project started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris, in 1996. After a complete rewrite in 1998, it became Open Source, thanks to the agreement of the École Centrale Paris, in 2001.
The project started to open up to developers outside of the École. It is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.
Since 2009, the project is completly separated from École Centrale Paris, and is backed up by an autonomous non-profit organisation.
The VideoLAN non-profit organisation
The VideoLAN project is backed up by the VideoLAN organisation, based in France.
The VideoLAN non-profit organisation has a comittee and members that are part of the VideoLAN project.
The current board of VideoLAN is composed by:
- Chairman: Jean-Baptiste Kempf,
- Treasurer: Rémi Duraffort,
- Secretary: Antoine Cellerier.
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.
- DVBlast, a simple, fast, reliable and powerful streaming application for linux-dvb devices.
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 to VideoLAN!
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.
Contacting us
For VLC media player user-related questions, please see our Support section and the users Mailing-lists.
If you want to contact the VideoLAN team, about partnerships, legal aspects or any non-support related questions , please write to videolan - at - videolan.org in French or English.
In case you write an article about VideoLAN, we would be very glad to have a copy of it to add to our press book. You can send us the article at the following address:
VideoLAN 18, rue Charcot 75013 Paris France