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 VLCTo compile VLC, you first need to get the Source Code.
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Joining usVideoLAN welcomes anyone wanting to help, either by writing code, finding or fixing bugs, starting or updating translations, doing graphics work, ... Getting startedGetting 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. |
What is currently going on
These pages are used to coordinate some of the currently ongoing development or artwork works.
Development
- Vout Rework - improving the video output subsystem
- External API - improving the external API to vlc
- Media Control API - an high level player-independent media API, wrapping around our ExternalAPI
- 0.8.6 Playlist TODO - Major changes in the upcoming version
- 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.
- Contrib Status - Contrib Libraries Status
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.