VLC user guide

Henri Fallon

Alexis de Lattre

Johan Bilien

Anil Daoud

Mathieu Gautier

Clément Stenac

This document is the complete user guide of VLC .


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. What is the VideoLAN project ?
1.2. What is a codec ?
1.3. How can I use VideoLAN ?
1.4. Command line usage
2. Modules and options for VLC
2.1. The modules
2.2. Video outputs
2.3. Video filters modules
2.4. Audio outputs
2.5. Input modules
2.6. Demuxers
2.7. Interface modules
2.8. Codec modules
2.9. OS support modules
2.10. Miscellaneous
2.11. Compilation Options
3. Installing VLC
3.1. Installing VLC
3.2. Uninstalling VLC
4. The command line interface
4.1. Introduction
4.2. Opening streams
4.3. Modules selection
4.4. Stream Output
4.5. Other Options
5. The Mozilla plugin
5.1. Install the plugin
5.2. Build HTML pages that use the plugin
A. GNU Free Documentation License
A.1. PREAMBLE
A.2. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
A.3. VERBATIM COPYING
A.4. COPYING IN QUANTITY
A.5. MODIFICATIONS
A.6. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
A.7. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
A.8. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A.9. TRANSLATION
A.10. TERMINATION
A.11. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
A.12. ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
List of Figures
1-1. Global VideoLAN solution La solution VideoLAN globale
1-2. Windows terminal
1-3. Linux X terminal
1-4. Mac OS X terminal
1-5. BeOS terminal