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Many people wonder how vlc connects to an RTSP network camera (especially the Axis ones)? Well, the answer to this question is to use RTSP.

What is this RTSP thing?

RTSP is a application level protocol designed for controlling delivery of data with real-time properties. The data is such as audio and video either live or stored (video on demand). RTSP 1.0 is described in RFC 2326. It defines a way to start media resources on a server and typically uses port 554 to listen for incoming requests.

Who said VideoLAN and VLC is only for guys and geeks? Judging from this picture you are clearly wrong. At LinuxTAG the VLC stand attracted women, just when Hugo left the boot. I am not sure that has any correlation though ;).

Last week I was at LinuxTAG 2010 for VideoLAN. In contrast to other years we had some promotion material: stickers, flyers and posters. More then 600 people payed attention to our booth in four days of LinuxTAG. Several features of VLC where demonstrated: recording, playback and streaming.

Thursday and Saturday one of the VLMC developer hugo demonstrated the current state of VideoLAN Media Creator. He got very good feedback from people and they could not wait to give it a try.

A big fan of VLC, Dan Dectis, recently posted a message on the vlc developers e-mail list with

"Hello Developers,

I was recently looking at some interesting Formula One photography and came upon this picture.

An article now hosted at Linux.com lists VLC as one of "The Five Best Linux Video Players". Read the entire article here.

In a few days time the second VideoLAN Developer Days is organised by the VideoLAN association. It is a yearly held conference around multimedia usage and software development meeting to discuss roadmaps for VLC, DVBlast (and other VideoLAN projects: http://www.videolan.org/projects/).

For more information about the VideoLAN Developer Days 2009 see this link: http://www.videolan.org/videolan/events/vdd09.html

In a few days time T-DOSE 2009 will start. The dutch based conference is being held for the fourth year in a row and has interesting talks. If you want to meet people from VideoLAN project and know more about VLC 1.0 then meet us at the booth. People from VideoLAN team will be present at the T-Dose conference in the next days. For more information on T-DOSE schedule visit this link.

The VideoLAN team went to LinuxTAG 2009 in Berlin on 24th till 27th of June. This year we had our own boot right across the hall of the ffmpeg booth. Not that you could see them from our booth, because a big 'educational' booth was in between us.

In vlc git repository git.videolan.org a new branch 0.9-trickplay branch is created. The goal is to give RTSP trickplay functionality a wider testing ground. The RTSP protocol (RFC 2326) is widely used in Video On Demand systems (VOD). Many hardware VOD servers support RTSP trickplay functionality, which includes fastforward, rewind, seek, pause. play and stop commands. These functionalities give the user a VCR-like experience with digital audio and video.

On 30 October 2008 VLC media player won a "tim Award" in category "Multimedia Software" at PC-WELT event. The awards were announced during a gala diner at "Bayerische Hof" in Munich. Two famous german TV presenters hosted the event. The VideoLAN team is very honored by winning this award and wants to thank its user base for giving us this token of your appreciation. VLC media player could not have won this award without the support and dedication of its users and Open Source developers.

Read more about the event on PC-WELT website.