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Package: vlc

Description: multimedia player and streamer
VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.
VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves them through HTTP.
VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added by installing additional plugins: * vlc-plugin-access-extra * vlc-plugin-fluidsynth * vlc-plugin-jack * vlc-plugin-notify * vlc-plugin-samba * vlc-plugin-skins2 * vlc-plugin-svg * vlc-plugin-video-splitter * vlc-plugin-visualization
copyright | Debian changelog

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/vlc

Package: vlc-bin

Description: binaries from VLC
VLC is the VideoLAN project's media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.
This package contains the VLC's binaries.
copyright | Debian changelog

Manual pages:

cvlc(1) nvlc(1) rvlc(1)
vlc-wrapper(1) vlc(1)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/vlc-bin

Other packages built from the same source:

vlc-l10n vlc-plugin-access-extra vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-qt
vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-skins2 vlc-plugin-video-output vlc-plugin-video-splitter vlc-plugin-visualization
libvlccore9 vlc libvlc-bin libvlc5 vlc-data

Manual page search:

cvlc(1) nvlc(1) qvlc(1)
rvlc(1) vlc(1) vlc-wrapper(1)

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