VLC Developers Corner

Welcome to VLC Developers Corner, This is a directory of everything to do with the development of VideoLAN's projects. Check VLC's page to get info on VLC.

VideoLAN VLC media player Documentation Developers' Websites

Developers Site Nightly builds Buildbot for Automatic Builds

Trac, bugs, features, roadmap Mirrors check Main FTP

Coding on VLC

• Get started at coding on VLC
• You might be interested in our Mini Projects or Janitorial projects
• Hacker's Guide
  • Introduction to VLC's core
  • Modules loading documentation
  • How to write a module
  • How VLC modules load
• Code Conventions
• Code documentation

VLC development links

• Contrib Status - Contrib Libraries Status
• Trac list of bugs
• vlc-devel mailing list, mailing list.
• Translation information and stats
• CIA and Ohloh statistics
• Pasteboard
• Buildbot
• Nightly Builds
• Launchpad (recent bug changes) (all bugs)

Control VLC

Control VLC:

• Talk to VLC through the DBus protocol

Compile VLC

To build VLC, you first need to get the Source Code.

For other OSes and HOWTOs, check the Compile VLC page.

Current technical discussions on VLC

• Usability Complaints

Past discussions

• Vout Rework - improving the video output subsystem.
• telnet rc rewrite - Merging the "telnet" and "rc" controls.
• Simple Preferences - We wish to add a "simple" preferences mode, additionally to the full mode we already have.
• Qt Interface TODO - A brand new qt4 interface ... in order to get rid of wxWidgets.
• DBus-spec - Specification for a Common, Desktop neutral, Media Player D-Bus interface.
• Stats Sytem
• Browser Plugin Spec
• 0.9.0 Playlist TODO - Major changes in the upcoming version
• InteractionSystem - Interaction System
• Media Control API - a OUTDATED high level player-independent media API
• 0.8.5StringReview
• 2005StringsReview

Design

• Website Redesign and Design Proposals
• Default Skin Requirements - Specifications of an eligible skin for default skin.