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source tree of VLC, aimed at giving new beginners an overview of the code.
This page lists the content of the directory in theThe directories are listed in alphabetical order, with an overview of their contents on the right. Any first level subdirectories are shown as well.
For detailed documentation on VLC modules, please see Documentation:Modules.
Note: This table is by no means exhaustive. Note that only plugins with their own subdirectories are listed; plugins inside the parent directories are not emphasized unless they are too important. For a comprehensive list of the plugins VLC makes use of, consult modules/MODULES_LIST in your source code checkout.
Directory Name | Subdirectory Name | Directory Explanation |
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access | protocols to access streams through network (http,ftp,fake,tcp,udp etc.), access to physical media like cd's and dvd's | |
cdda | input module to read audio CDs | |
dshow | DirectShow access plugin for encoding cards under Windows | |
dvb | input module for DVB-S/C/T streaming using v4l2 API | |
mms | MMS over TCP, UDP and HTTP access module | |
rtsp | ||
screen | an input module that takes screenshots of the primary monitor | |
vcd | input module for accessing Video CDs. | |
vcdx | input module for accessing Video CDs with navigation & stills | |
access-filter | Includes the following filters: timeshift, record, dump, which are used for ????? | |
access-output | ||
audio-filter | Various audio filters like decoders, equalizers, converters. | |
channel-mixer | Various mixers and decoders like Dolby decoder | |
converter | Fixed and floating-point audio format conversions such as AC/3 or MPEG I-II Audio Layer 1, 2, 3 decoding | |
resampler | Various audio resampler | |
audio-mixer | Mixer plugins. | |
audio-output | Audio output plugins like ALSA, OSS and DirectX audio. | |
codec | This directory includes various codecs, notably ffmpeg which is used for encoding and decoding various formats. | |
cmml | Continuous Media Markup Language annotations/hyperlinks decoder | |
dmo | a DirectMediaObject decoder that uses DirectMedia to decode video (WMV3) | |
ffmpeg | Video decoder using the ffmpeg library | |
spudec | RLE DVD subtitles decoder | |
xvmc | XVMC video output and decoder | |
control | Various interfaces to control the player: gestures, hotkeys, lirc, remote control (rc) and telnet | |
http | HTTP remote control webinterface | |
demux | Various demuxers | |
asf | ASF demuxer | |
avi | AVI File stream demuxer | |
mp4 | MP4 file input module | |
mpeg | ||
playlist | playlist import module??? | |
gui | GUI's for different platforms and the ncurses interface | |
beos | Audio output, video output and interface module for BeOS. | |
macosx | Video output, and interface module for Mac OS X. | |
pda | interface for iPaq using the Gtk2+ widget set. | |
qnx | QNX RTOS plugin | |
qt4 | interface module using the cross-platform Qt4 library: Multi-platform. This interface will be the default one upon subsequent releases. | |
skins2 | Skinnable interface, new generation | |
wince | Pocket PC interface | |
wxwidgets | interface module using the cross-platform wxWindows library: Multi-platform. The default interface as of VLC 0.86a. | |
meta-engine | ||
misc | ||
dummy | Dummy (no GUI) audio output, video output, interface and input modules. | |
memcpy | memory chunk copying module. | |
notify | notifications using libnotify | |
playlist | ||
probe | ||
testsuite | ||
xml | LibXML and xtag xml parsers | |
mux | Various Muxers | |
mpeg | ||
rtp | ||
packetizer | Packetizers for H264/AVC and MPEG 4 audio and video streams. | |
services-discovery | ||
stream-out | ||
transrate | ||
video-chroma | Image conversions such as YUV to RGB | |
video-filter | Various video filters like Deinterlace, Transform, Wall, Crop, Panoramix etc. | |
video-output | ||
directx | Video output module using the Direct3D and Direct X API's ; OpenGL for Windows. | |
qte | video output module for Qt Embedded. | |
x11 | video output module using the X11 API. | |
visualization | Several visualizations, including goom | |
galaktos | a visualization module that outputs OpenGL | |
visual | visualisation system |
See Also: VLC User Guide - Chapter 2. Modules and options for VLC
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