VLC Source code

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Latest Source

VLC media player Source Code can be downloaded here (3.0.12)

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html

Older Source

You can get all the versions of VLC, using the VLC FTP Archive.

You can also get it with the tags from the VLC's Git.

Development Sources

How to get VLC media player's latest source

if you want to get the latest bleeding edge development sources...

go to this link

http://repo.or.cz/w/vlc.git

and download the first listed tar.gz or .zip file

This is the recommended way if you are working on VLC media player

You need to use Git to download the latest, live snapshot of the development tree.

Start by reading the Git page and then use the repository located at:

git://git.videolan.org/vlc.git

this is not nessary unless you want to download the entire git repository.. use the above link for the latest development build

Get the nightly snapshots

You can download the nightly snapshots on the nightlies website.