• INTRODUCTION
• INTRODUCTION
• INSTALLING
• WINDOWS
• OSX
• UBUNTU
• LINUX (advanced)
• GETTING STARTED
• INTERFACE
• PLAYING CONTENT
• PLAYING AUDIO AND VIDEO
• PLAYING STREAMS
• PLAYING VIDEO_TS FILES
• VIEWING SUBTITLES
• STREAMING
• WHAT IS STREAMING?
• STREAMING WIZARD
• STREAMING TO ICECAST
• ENCODING AUDIO
• RIPPING CDS
• ENCODING VIDEO
• BASIC ENCODING
• GRABBING STILLS
• APPENDICES
• GLOSSARY
• LINKS
• CREDITS

VLC - VideoLan Client 

VLC is a great media player. But saying that VLC is just a media player is like saying a Swiss Army knife is just a knife. VLC can do much more than play back media, it can also convert audio and video files to different formats (transcoding), send live audio or video over the net (streaming), rip DVDs and CDs, and much more.

VLC is also great because it's cross platform.