README for the VLC media player
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+VLC is a popular libre and open source media player and multimedia engine,
+used by a large number of individuals, professionals, companies and
+institutions. Using open source technologies and libraries, VLC has been
+ported to most computing platforms, including GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X,
+BSD, iOS and Android.
+VLC can play most multimedia files, discs, streams, allows playback from
+devices, and is able to convert to or stream in various formats.
+The VideoLAN project was started at the university École Centrale Paris who
+relicensed VLC under the GPLv2 license in February 2001. Since then, VLC has
+been downloaded close to one billion times.
+
+Links:
+======
+
The VideoLAN web site . . . http://www.videolan.org/
-Documentation . . . . . . . http://www.videolan.org/doc/
+The VLC web site . . . . . http://www.videolan.org/
Support . . . . . . . . . . http://www.videolan.org/support/
Forums . . . . . . . . . . http://forum.videolan.org/
Wiki . . . . . . . . . . . http://wiki.videolan.org/
-The Developers site . . . . http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc.html
+The Developers site . . . . http://wiki.videolan.org/Developers_Corner
+Bugtracker . . . . . . . . http://trac.videolan.org/
+Files:
+======
ABOUT-NLS - Notes on the Free Translation Project.
-AUTHORS - Main VLC authors.
+AUTHORS - VLC authors.
COPYING - The GPL license.
-ChangeLog - The VLC ChangeLog.
HACKING - Hacking VLC.
INSTALL - Installation instructions.
NEWS - Important modifications between the releases.
README - This file.
-THANKS - All VLC contributors.
-bindings/ - Bindings around LibVLC.
+THANKS - VLC contributors.
+
+Folders:
+========
+bin/ - VLC binaries.
+bindings/ - libVLC bindings to other languages.
+compat/ - compatibility library for operating systems missing
+ essential functionnalities.
+contrib/ - external libraries retrieving facilities for systems that
+ don't have package manager.
+doc/ - Miscellaneous documentation.
extras/analyser - Code analyser and editor specific files.
extras/buildsystem - different buildsystems specific files.
-extras/contrib - external libraries retrieving facilities for systems that
- don't have package manager.
-extras/deprecated - Now deprecated files.
+extras/contrib/ - old contrib/.
extras/misc - Files that don't fit in the other extras/ categories.
extras/package - VLC packaging specific files such as spec files.
-include/ - Include files
-doc/ - Miscellaneous documentation.
-libs/ - libraries that we host.
+include/ - Include files.
+lib/ - libVLC source code.
+modules/ - VLC plugins and modules. Most of the code is here.
po/ - languages related files.
projects/ - projects that uses libVLC such as the web browsers plugin.
share/ - Common Resources files.
src/ - VLC and libvlc source code.
+test/ - testing system.