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<chapter id="vlc"><title id="tvlc">VLC, the universal media player</title>
<sect1><title>Installing VLC</title>
&install-vlc;
</sect1>
<sect1><title>Running VLC</title>
<sect2><title>Read a File</title>
<para>
Start VLC : under Windows, Mac OS X or BeOS, double-clic on the icone and under Unix or Linux, use the command <command>vlc</command>.
</para>
<para>
To read an MPEG-1 MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 / DivX file stored on a hard drive
or a CD-ROM, click on the <emphasis>File</emphasis> icon or select in the
menu <emphasis>File / Open file</emphasis> and select the file you want
to play.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Read a DVD</title>
<para>
To read a DVD or a VCD, click on the <emphasis>disc</emphasis> icon or
select in the menu <emphasis>File / Open disk</emphasis> and enter the
device name of your DVD drive.
</para>
<note><para>
If you are running Linux, you must have write access to the device
corresponding to your DVD drive. For that, you should be in the
<emphasis>disk</emphasis> or <emphasis>cdrom</emphasis> group (look
at the permissions in <filename>/dev</filename>). If you're not, add
yourself to the group :
</para>
<screen>
<prompt># </prompt><userinput>adduser your_login disk_or_cdrom</userinput>
</screen>
<para>and then restart your session.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Troubleshooting</title>
<para>If VLC doesn't work for you, open the message window from the menu
<emphasis>View / Messages</emphasis> and try to spot an error message
that could explain your problem.</para>
<para>Then, read the <ulink
url="http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq-vlc/faq/">vlc FAQ</ulink> and have a
look at the <ulink url="http://bugzilla.videolan.org/">Bugzilla</ulink>
to see if it is a known issue. </para>
<para>If you can't find out the problem, explain it in English in the
mailing-list <emphasis>vlc@videolan.org</emphasis> and copy-paste in
your mail the messages of the message window.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>