<heading>What is VideoLAN ?</heading>
<p>
VideoLAN is a project of sudents of the École Centrale Paris which aims
- to broadcast video on the campus, and provide the students with a MPEG2
+ at broadcasting video on the campus, and providing the students with an MPEG-2
software-only decoder. VideoLAN is an OpenSource project which will thus
allow anyone to watch DVD movies under Linux, BeOS, MacOS X, Windows
- and most Unix
- systems
+ and most UNIX systems. Recent additions allow to read .avi files,
+ and MPEG-4/DivX-encoded movies.
</p>
<p>
You may want to look at the port section on our website :
</p>
<p>
Please note that the Linux, Windows and MacOS X are generally the most
- uptodate versions.
+ up-to-date versions.
</p>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<heading>Software requirements</heading>
<p>
Depending on the outputs and inputs you are using, you may need
- additionnal libraries. Please see <ref id="modules" name="description">.
+ additional libraries. Please see <ref id="modules" name="description">.
</p>
<p>
- For playing encrypted DVDs, you will need libdvdcss, which you can found
+ For playing encrypted DVDs, you will need libdvdcss, which you can find
on this page :
<htmlurl name="http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/download.html"
url="http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/download.html">.
<sect1>
<heading>Legal</heading>
<p>
- Copyright (©) 2001 by the VideoLAN project. This document may be
+ Copyright (©) 2001-2002 by the VideoLAN project. This document may be
distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
<htmlurl url="http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/LDP-COPYRIGHT.html"
name="the LDP license">.
<sect2>
<heading>RPM package</heading>
<p>
- Install vlc just as you would install any rpm package :
+ Install vlc just as you would install any RPM package :
<verb>
rpm -i vlc-x.x.x.rpm
</verb>
</sect2>
<sect2>
- <heading>MacOS X users</heading>
+ <heading>Mac OS X users</heading>
<p>
- To be completed
+ Double-click on the archive, and copy the vlc file to your Applications
+ folder.
</p>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<p>
Launch the installer by double-clicking on it, and follow the installation
instructions. Please note that in most cases you will need administrator
- rights to install it under Windows NT, 2000 and XP
+ rights to install it under Windows NT, 2000 and XP.
</p>
</sect2>
</sect1>
url="http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/download.html">
</p>
<p>
- For Windows users, libdvdcss is statically linked in the
+ For Windows, BeOS and Mac OS X users, libdvdcss is statically linked in the
Windows binary, so you don't have to install it.
</p>
</sect1>
<sect2>
<heading>Linux users</heading>
<p>
- Usually, you dvd device is /dev/hd? (if you have an ide drive).
+ Usually, your dvd device is /dev/hd? (if you have an ide drive).
For instance, if you DVD player is master on the second IDE device,
it will be /dev/hdc.
</p>
<p>
If nothing appears and you are sure that a program is streamed in
this channel, you may try once again, because a problem of communication
- with the channel server could have occured (in you launched vlc from
+ with the channel server could have occurred (if you launched vlc from
a terminal, you should see "Network error: no answer from vlcs").
</p>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<heading>Without VideoLAN Channel Server</heading>
<p>
- Simply choose clicking on the network button, then on ok should be
+ Simply clicking on the network button, then on ok should be
sufficient in most cases.
</p>
<p>
<sect>
<heading>Command line options</heading>
<p>
- Many options are only available through command line. They are detailled here.
+ Many options are only available through command line. They are detailed here.
</p>
<sect1>
<heading>Opening streams</heading>
<p> <verb>--intf <interface module></verb>
allows you to select the interface module </p>
- <p> <verb>--input <input module></verb>
- allows you to select the input module.</p>
-
<p> <verb>--vout <video output module></verb>
allows you to select the video output.</p>
<p> <verb>--filter <video filter module></verb>
allows you to add a video filter module.</p>
- <p> <verb>--mpeg_adec <MPEG audio decoder module></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--mpeg-adec <MPEG audio decoder module></verb>
allows you to select the audio MPEG decoder.</p>
- <p> <verb>--ac3_adec <AC3 audio decoder module></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--ac3-adec <AC3 audio decoder module></verb>
allows you to select the audio AC3 decoder.</p>
</sect1>
gives you information about the current version.</p>
<p> <verb>--list</verb>
gives you the list of all available plugins.</p>
- <p> <verb>--warning X or -vvvv (X times)</verb>
+ <p> <verb>-vvvv (X times)</verb>
set the level of warning messages.</p>
- <p> <verb>--stat</verb>
+ <p> <verb>--stats</verb>
gives statistic outputs.</p>
</sect2>
<p> <verb>--network-channel</verb>
Start with channel server enabled.</p>
- <p> <verb>--channel_server <string></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--channel-server <string></verb>
Specify the channel server address.</p>
- <p> <verb>--channel_port <integer></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--channel-port <integer></verb>
Specify the channel server port.</p>
<p> <verb>--iface <string></verb>
Select the network interface to use.</p>
- <p> <verb>--input_program <integer></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--input-program <integer></verb>
Select the program to use (for streams with
several programs, as those coming from satellite).</p>
- <p> <verb>--input_audio <integer></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--audio-type <integer></verb>
Select the audio channel to use.</p>
- <p> <verb>--input_subtitle <integer></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--subtitle-channel <integer></verb>
Select the subtitle.</p>
- <p> <verb>--input_channel <integer></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--audio_channel <integer></verb>
Select the channel number.</p>
- <p> <verb>--dvd_device <string></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--dvd <string></verb>
Specify the default dvd device.</p>
- <p> <verb>--vcd_device <string></verb>
+ <p> <verb>--vcd <string></verb>
Specify the default vcd device.</p>
- <p> <verb>--ipv4</verb>
+ <p> <verb>-4, --ipv4</verb>
Force IPv4.</p>
- <p> <verb>--ipv6</verb>
+ <p> <verb>-6, --ipv6</verb>
Force IPv6.</p>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<heading>Directly from CVS</heading>
<p> <label id="cvs">
- Firs log in as suer anonymous with an empty password :
+ First log in as user anonymous with an empty password :
<verb>
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.videolan.org:/var/cvs/videolan login
</verb>
<heading>deinterlace</heading>
<p>default: enabled</p>
<p>
- This filter deinterlaces video. It is usefull with streams coming
+ This filter deinterlaces video. It is useful with streams coming
from a satellite broadcast.
</p>
</sect2>
<htmlurl url="http://www.linuxtv.org/" name="linuxtv.org">.
</p>
</sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <heading>avi</heading>
+ <p>default: enabled</p>
+ <p>
+ This input module allows to read .avi files.
+ </p>
+ </sect2>
+
</sect1>
<sect1>
</p>
</sect2>
</sect1>
+ <sect1>
+ <heading>Codec modules</heading>
+ <p> The following modules add codec support. </p>
+ <sect2>
+ <heading>a52</heading>
+ <p>default: disabled</p>
+ <p>
+ This is a better AC3/A52 decoder than the built-in one, based on
+ liba52 :
+ <htmlurl url="http://liba52.sf.net/" name="liba52">.
+ </p>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2>
+ <heading>ffmpeg</heading>
+ <p>default: disabled</p>
+ <p>
+ This is a free MPEG-4/DivX/OpenDivX codec :
+ <htmlurl url="http://ffmpeg.sf.net/" name="ffmpeg">.
+ </p>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1>
<heading>OS support modules</heading>
<p> The following modules add support or different OSs. </p>
<htmlurl url="mailto:videolan@videolan.org" name="videolan@videolan.org">
</p>
<p>
- Finally, there's a users mailing list (English speaking). To subscribe, send a mail to
+ Finally, there's a users mailing list (English-speaking). To subscribe, send a mail to
<htmlurl url="mailto:listar@videlan.org" name="listar@videlan.org"> containing
"subscribe vlc" as message body.
</p>
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