Hacker Guide

This guide is still being constructed. Please see http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc.html for the current information

Authors

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

Introduction

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

The many layers of VLC

• Core
• Interfaces
• Input
• Access
• Demux
• Decoder
• Packetizers
• Codec
• Stream Output
• Audio Output
• Video Output
• VLM Internals
• Filters

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
• Using libvlc
• Bindings

This page is part of official VLC media player Documentation (User Guide • Streaming HowTo • Hacker Guide • Modules)
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