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-[Video Lan Client | http://www.videolan.org/] is a MediaPlayer with support for many formats including [DVD] movies, [DivX], and others, and runs on many platforms such as [Linux], MicrosoftWindows, [MacOSX], and more.
+[Video Lan Client | http://www.videolan.org/], or VLC,
is a MediaPlayer and streaming server
with support for many formats including [DVD] movies, [DivX], and others, and runs on many platforms such as [Linux], MicrosoftWindows, [MacOSX], and more.
-VideoLanClient
is used by a number of third parties as well: eMule recommends it for previewing downloaded video, and [Google Video|http://video.google.com/] uses a modified version of it.
+VLC
is used by a number of third parties as well: eMule recommends it for previewing downloaded video, and [Google Video|http://video.google.com/] uses a modified version of it.
-There is also
a VideoLanServer that can stream such videocasts to a VideoLanClient located elsewhere
.
+At one point, the VideoLan project made
a separate server, the
VideoLanServer, but this is now deprecated in favour of using VLC as both client and server. Expansion of the VLC acronym is falling out of use, as "client" no longer describes the software
.
-The DebianLinux [Package] is <tt>vlc</tt>, and <tt>vls</tt> for the server
. See AptSourcesList to enable more formats.
+VLC is hellish to compile, having dozens of dependencies, including libraries that are recommended to be staticly linked in (ie, from source, not -dev packages), and a non-standard install requires hand edited configuration. Installing the Debian package imports a lot of packages, including parts of X, but it is quite possible to run it without running X.
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The DebianLinux [Package] is <tt>vlc</tt>. See AptSourcesList to enable more formats.
