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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Lua-scriptable software, Lua-scripted software, VLC media player, Rockbox, Nmap, Celestia, Awesome, Asterisk, OpenWrt, Damn Small Linux, Wireshark, FreeSWITCH, MySQL Workbench, Monotone, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Renoise, Ion, PowerDNS, Conky, WeeChat, FCEUX, 3DMLW, Thottbot, Anime Studio, Eyeon Fusion, Snort, SciTE, Lua Player HM, FreePOPs, ELinks, Dr. Web, Ipe, IUP, Project Dogwaffle, Intellipool Network Monitor, LuaTeX, APT-RPM, CEGUI, UltraDefrag, Artweaver, Tomsrtbt, Strata 3D, Premake, OSMP, Yzis. Excerpt: VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. VLC used to stand for VideoLAN Client, but since VLC is no longer simply a client, that initialism no longer applies. It is a cross-platform media player, with versions for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU, Linux, BeOS, MorphOS, BSD, Solaris, iOS and eComStation. The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins. Many of VLC's codecs are provided by the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project, but it uses mainly its own muxer and demuxers. It also gained distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library. Originally the VideoLAN project started as an academic project in 1996. It was intended to consist of a client and server to stream videos across a campus network. VLC was the client for the VideoLAN project, with VLC standing for VideoLan...
