The
VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of
MPEG-1,
MPEG-2,
MPEG-4 and
DivX files,
DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or
IPv6 network in unicast or
multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player,
VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux...