Hacker Guide

Introduction

• What is this?
• What you need to know about VLC

The many layers of VLC

Core

• Core
• VLM Internals

Plugins / Modules

• Interfaces
• Access
• Access Filters
• Input
• Demux
• Decoder
• Audio Filters
• Video Filters
• Audio Mixers
• Audio Output
• Video Output
• Visualization
• Encoder
• Mux
• Packetizers
• Stream Output
• Access Output

libVLC

• Using libvlc

VLC source code overview

• VLC source tree
• VLC modules (also see Modules source tree )
• VLC Object Management
• VLC Preferences
• VLC Playlist and Media Library
• VLC variables
• Doxygen Documentation

Coding for VLC

• Sending Patches
• Code Conventions
• Adding a module

• Bindings

Authors

• Derk-Jan Hartman
• Christophe Massiot
• Samuel Hocevar
• Geoffroy Couprie
• JB

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