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{{Lowercase}}You can embed libVLC into your application to gain audio/video playing features.

LibVLC is already used by several applications, see [[LibVLC_Users|who uses LibVLC?]]

== Documentation ==

===General documentation===

Please refer to the [http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/doc/doxygen/html/group__libvlc.html Doxygen documentation],
which is the reference documentation.
''Make sure that the documentation matches your LibVLC version'' (if not, you can build it from the source code).

Some further topics are covered here:

* [[LibVLC_Memory_Management| LibVLC Memory Management]] explained: covers the basics on the _new(), _retain(), _release().
* [[LibVLC_Media_List_Management| LibVLC Media List Management]] explained: covers the basics on settubg up a playlist.
* [[GenerateLibFromDll|Generate a .lib for using libVLC on Windows]]

===Third-party documentation===

* [[Plugins/Mozilla|Plugins in Mozilla]]

== Examples ==

=== Playback ===
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial|Current version (1.1.x and later)]]
* Gtk Player: {{VLCSourceFile|name=doc/libvlc/gtk_player.c}}
* Qt Player: {{VLCSourceFile|name=doc/libvlc/QtPlayer}}
* WxWidgets Player: {{VLCSourceFile|name=doc/libvlc/wx_player.cpp}}

* [http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=tree;f=doc/libvlc;hb=HEAD Sample code from VLC source code in vlc/doc/libvlc]

=== Rendering and streaming ===
* [[LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL|Use LibVLC in an SDL application]]
* [[Stream_to_memory_(smem)_tutorial| Stream into a memory zone]]
* Generate thumbnails using LibVLC: {{VLCSourceFile|name=doc/libvlc/vlc-thumb.c}}
* Quick DVD ripper: {{VLCSourceFile|name=doc/libvlc/libvlc_DVD_ripper.c}}

=== Outdated samples ===
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial_0.9|Versions 0.9.x and 1.0.x]]
* [[LibVLC_Tutorial_086c|Version 0.8.6]]
* [[LibVLC_Visual_C|Visual C++]] '' (uses "old" legacy API) ''
* [[IceVLCPlayer|VCL component for Delphi]] (out-of-date)

== Language & platforms bindings ==
LibVLC is a C library. It has bindings to the following other languages and frameworks:
* [[Mac OS X Framework|Objective-C for iOS and Mac OS]]
* C++
* [[PythonBinding|Python]]
* Phonon (Qt4/KDE) in C++
* [http://github.com/jteeuwen/go-vlc GO]
* [[Using libvlc with Delphi]]
* [http://projects.tano.si/en/library Qt bindings - VLC-Qt]
* [[wxVLCBackend|wxWidgets MediaCtrl backend]] also in C++

* [http://code.google.com/p/vlcj Java binding]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/paslibvlc/ Pascal/Delphi]
* .Net / CIL
* [[ActiveX]] with the built-in VLC browser plugin for MSIE

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