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VideoLAN is a project of French students from the Ecole        
Centrale Paris and developers from all over the world. Its main    
goals is MPEG streaming on a network, but it also features a       
standalone multimedia player. The VideoLAN Server can stream       
video read from a hard disk, a DVD player, a satellite card or     
an MPEG 2 compression card, and unicast or multicast it on a       
network. The VideoLAN Client can read the stream from the          
network and display it. It can also be used to display video       
read locally on the computer : DVDs, VCDs, MPEG and DivX files     
and from a satellite card. It is multi-plaform : Linux,            
Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Solaris, QNX, iPaq... The            
VideoLAN Client and Server now have a full IPv6 support.