DOSC TWiki snapshot as of mid-2005
The videolan software comes in two parts, the client and the server.
Most people probably want to use the client, but here is a page for Videolan Server.
"The VideoLAN? Client (vlc) is a multi-plateform multimedia player. It can read DVDs, VCDs, MPEG and DivX files and from a satellite card under Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, BSD, Solaris, QNX, iPaq... It can also read a stream from a network, sent by the VideoLAN? Server or another source. The stream can be MPEG 2 TS in UDP or HTTP packets unicasted or multicasted on an IPv4 or IPv6 network."
RobinsonTryon - 16 Oct 2002