<post> The VideoLAN

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http://www.videolan.org/
...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...