VideoLAN Server (VLS)

VLS is deprecated and unmaintained. Use VLC media player for streaming instead. See the streaming page.

Get VLS

VLS is available through Subversion or by browsing the releases.

Documentation

• VideoLAN Server developer documentation: HTML, PDF, PostScript. Maintained by Tristan Leteurtre.

You can ask questions in the development mailing list (vls-devel@videolan.org), or try to meet the developers on IRC (#videolan on Libera Chat) if you want to help but don’t know where to start.

Third-party libraries used by VLS

• libdvdcss — accessing encrypted DVDs
• libdvdread — reading DVD-Video images
• libdvbpsi — decoding and generation of MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables
• libdvb — accessing the Linux DVB drivers