Hacker Guide/Core

Introduction

The core of VLC media player is the LibVLC, which provides an interface for applications to handle features such as playlist management, audio and video decoding and output, a thread system. All the LibVLC source files are located in the src/ directory and its subdirectories:

• interface/: contains code for user interaction such as key presses and device ejection.
• playlist/: manages playlist interaction such as stop, play, next, or random playback.
• input/: opens an input module, reads packets, parses them and passes reconstituted elementary streams to the decoder(s).
• video_output/: initializes the video display, gets all pictures and subpictures (ie. subtitles) from the decoder(s), optionally converts them to another format (such as YUV to RGB), and displays them.
• audio_output/: initializes the audio mixer, ie. finds the right playing frequency, and then resamples audio frames received from the decoder(s).
• stream_output/: TODO
• misc/: miscellaneous utilities used in other parts of libvlc, such as the thread system, the message queue, CPU detection, the object lookup system, or platform-specific code.