Software >> VLC

• VLC's official site
• VLC on Wikipedia

• VLC's Pootle page at Locamotion.org

• Customised Google search for VLC terminology

VLC is a software media player. It 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 different formats. It runs on BeOS, BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Windows CE.

Author: See http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html

Samuel will translate into Afrikaans and researching possible problems.

• Number of strings: 848 + 169 + 2633
• Number of words: 4273 + 1098 + 17869
• Original file format: POT

• VLC's official forums (has search feature)
• Visit VLC's dev page and follow all the links.
• More media players at Wikipedia
• More media players II at Wikipedia
• VLC mailing lists (could be useful to join)
• Join the #videolan channel on IRC at irc.videolan.org.

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Already translated into: af, ar, ca, co, cs, da, de, en_GB, es, eu, fr, fur, gl, he, hi, hu, it, ja, ka, ko, lt, lv, ms, nb, ne, nl, nn, oc, pa, pt_BR, ro, ru, sk, sl, sq, sv, th, tr, zh_CN, zh_TW. These are the languages that Decathlon will not translate.

If you want to help translate VLC into one of the existing languages, contact the current translator via the VLC translators' wiki page.

Please note: Decathlon will not contact existing translators of VLC to invite them to use Pootle. If you are an existing translator of VLC and you want to use Pootle, you're welcomme to let us know.

VLC's official localisation guide -- not everything in this guide is relevant to Decathlon translators because Pootle takes care of many of the technical issues described in this guide.