VLC Developers Corner

Welcome to VideoLAN 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. 764 articles

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VideoLAN other projects Here is a short list of the main projects hosted by the VideoLAN project: VLS is a streaming server, used for professional streaming solutions. VLC can now do the same. VLS is deprecated and unmaintained. MiniSAPServer is a SAP server. x264, a free H264 / AVC encoder. Libraries libdvdcss, a C library to access DVDs without having to bother about the decryption. libdvbpsi, a C library to decode and generate MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables. libdca, a DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder. Discover also lesser known projects. VideoLAN's Administration VideoLAN Machines How to add a skin on the skins download page Download mirrors integritylist

Build VLC media player To build VLC, you first need to get the Source Code. How to compile on Unix/Linux How to compile on Windows How to compile on Mac OS X How to compile on BeOS Contrib Status - 3rd party libraries status. Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 's notes about packaging VLC into Gentoo. Code VLC Unicode and Strings Code Conventions Hacker's Guide Code documentation Start coding on VLC Get started at coding on VLC. You might be interested in our Mini Projects, which are some easy tasks that do not require a lot of VLC Code Knowledge. It is recommended that you join the vlc-devel mailing list, where all commits are archived. Tools to code VLC Contrib Status - Contrib Libraries Status Trac list of bugs, todo's and history of commits. Launchpad for VLC (recent bug changes) (all bugs) Translation information and stats CIA commit statistics Pasteboard Buildbot Developer weblog

Development discussions under work Current discussions DBus-spec - Specification for a Common, Desktop neutral, Media Player D-Bus interface 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. Design Default Skin Requirements - Specifications of an eligible skin for default skin. Passed discussions 0.9.0 Playlist TODO - Major changes in the upcoming version External API - improving the external API to vlc Media Control API - an high level player-independent media API, wrapping around our External API Design Website Redesign and Design Proposals Build an application on VLC There are several ways to build an application that uses VLC. Some are listed here. Build a GPL application using libvlc, in C/C++/C# Use the python bindings Use the java bindings Use the ActiveX Controls Use the JavaScript API Talk to VLC through the DBus communication