VLC Developers Corner

Welcome to VLC's developers corner. This is a directory of everything to do with the development of VLC. If you are looking for information about downloading or using VLC, you should have a look at our website [[1]].

Compiling VLC To compile VLC, you first need to get the Source Code. How to compile on Unix/Linux How to compile on Windows Hww to compile on Mac OS X How to compile on BeOS At the moment, all information is available from here : http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/

Joining us VideoLAN welcomes anyone wanting to help, either by writing code, finding or fixing bugs, starting or updating translations, doing graphics work, ... Getting started Getting started at coding is a matter of finding something to fix, and fixing it. Once you have fixed something, you will want to send in a patch. If you do that a few times, you may want to apply for an SVN account so you can fix things directly. You might be interested in having a look at our Mini_Projects, which are some identified development efforts for which an existing VLC developer is willing to help a new developer in his progress. These Mini_Projects generally don't require a great knowledge of VLC code. It is recommended that you join the vlc-devel mailing list, where all commits are archived. More information on how to get started at coding on VLC.

What is currently going on

These pages are used to coordinate some of the currently ongoing development or artwork works.

Development

• VoutRework - improving the video output subsystem
• ExternalAPI - improving the external API to vlc
• MediaControlAPI - an high level player-independant media API, wrapping around our ExternalAPI
• 0.8.6PlaylistTODO - Major changes in the upcoming version
• telnet rc rewrite - Merging the "telnet" and "rc" controls
• SimplePreferences - We wish to add a "simple" preferences mode, additionnaly to the full mode we already have

Design =

• DefaultSkinRequirements - what you need to make a skin that might be eligible for default skin
• WebsiteRedesign

Other software

VideoLAN is mainly about VLC, but not only.

Other software by VideoLAN include:

• libdvdcss, a library to access DVD data without bothering about the CSS encryption
• libdvdplay, a DVD navigation support library
• libdvbpsi, a library to decode and create MPEG-TS and DVB-PSI tables
• libdca, a DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder library
• x264, a H264 encoding library

Miscellaneous how-to

Cédric Bosdonnat 's notes (fr) about developing a new module type.

Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 's notes about packaging VLC into Gentoo.

• How to add a skin on the skins download page