VLC - The worlds most downloaded video player. VideoLabs is a service company around the technologies of VLC and VideoLAN. This presentation will detail the story about VideoLabs, the subjects we are working on and the services we deliver.

1. VideoLAN
VideoLAN & VLC
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
jeudi 17 novembre 2016

4. Ecole Centrale Paris

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VIA
VIA Centrale Réseaux
➣ Campus student association
➣ Internet acces through RENATER
➣ Token Ring
Network Upgrade
➣ How to pay for our new network?
➣ How to justify the needs for a faster network?
➣ 1995 : let's do video streaming!

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Early history
1995 – 96 first project
➣ 2 years to complete
1998 project reboot
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Open Source
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Modularity
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Cross-Platform
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Network oriented
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Student project
2001 License Change
➣ ECP headmaster Agreement
➣ GPL v2 (or later)

7. Under VideoLAN's umbrella
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VLC
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VLMA (VLC automation)
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VLC Skin Designer
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VLMC (Non-linear video editor)
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DVBlast, Multicat (DVB streaming)
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libdvdcss (DVD CSS decryption)
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libdts, libdca (DTS decoding)
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libdvbpsi (MPEG-TS PSI encoding/decoding)
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libdvbcsa (DVB encryption decoding)
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libbluray, libaacs (BluRay playback)
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x262, x264, x265

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Streaming Solution

9. The Cone

10. VLC

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12. Francois Cartegnie – HKOSCon 2015
1.000.000downloads per day
200.000.000users on all platforms! *
2.000.000.000+downloads since the early days
* Estimated

14. VLC 0.6.1

17. VLC 0.9

19. VideoLAN
VLC
Volunteers

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Association VideoLAN
Creation
➣ 2009, decided in the VDD '08
➣ Libre/Free Software and Multimedia
Members
➣ VLC's core developers
➣ Important members
Supports
➣ Hardware for development
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Travel, Servers, Legal
➣ VideoLAN Dev Days

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Collaboration
Collaboration
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Teams meeting twice per year
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FOSDEM
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VideoLAN Dev Days
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Using git since early 2007
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Use of trac, phpBB and mediawiki
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IRC and Mailing Lists
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Simple rules
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Code of conduct

22. Francois Cartegnie – HKOSCon 2015
VideoLAN Dev Days 2014
Google, Dublin

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Collaboration

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Decisions
VLC Contributors
➢
Core Team 5~10 people
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600 over the lifetime
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150 per year
Decisions
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Maintainable !
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Technical and standard compliant
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0 marketing, 0 legal
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Code = > Power
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Consensus or Fork

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Code
➢
Stable, Dev, OldStable
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Always rebase !

27. VideoLabs
2012
17-20 people

28. 2/3 VLC commits
Android, iOS,
WinRT, Tizen

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Business Models
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Applications & integration B2B
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libVLC
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Mobile, VR
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VLC bugs and support B2B2C
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Bug fixing and new platforms
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Support
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Mirrors Ads
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CDN and mirrors
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Ads
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Donations

30. libVLC
libVLCcore
VLC VLMC Applications
Interface
MKVOggMuxDemuxer
x264VorbisTheoraDecoder
FiltersAoutVout
Modules ModulesModulesModules

31. Android 2.0.6

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Android TV

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ChromeOS

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Apple TV

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VLC for WinRT

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3.0.0 Tizen

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VLC for Xbox 1

38. Thank You
jb@videolan.org
Jean-Baptiste Kempf