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VLC (initially VideoLAN client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. VLC supports all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX.

Contents 1 Install it 1.1 with SUSE 2 use it 3 See also

Install it

Install VLC as described at installing Software, however, for SUSE, there is an easier way to install it.

with SUSE

To install VLC with the SUSE Linux distribution, go to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html and follow the steps to do a 1-Click Install of VLC.

use it

To use vlc, open a console as root and type

chmod 777 /dev/sr0
chmod 777 /dev/sr1

Then open a console as non-root and start vlc with the command

vlc

See also

• Video player
• VLC homepage (www.videolan.org)
• VLC screenshots (www.videolan.org)