libVLC

You can embed libVLC into your application to gain audio/video playing features.

LibVLC is already used by several applications, see who uses LibVLC?

Documentation

General documentation

Please refer to the Doxygen documentation, which is the reference documentation. Make sure that the documentation matches your LibVLC version (if not, you can build it from the source code).

Some further topics are covered here:

• LibVLC Memory Management explained: covers the basics on the _new(), _retain(), _release().
• LibVLC Media List Management explained: covers the basics on settubg up a playlist.
• Generate a .lib for using libVLC on Windows

Third-party documentation

• Plugins in Mozilla

Examples

Playback

• Current version (1.1.x)
• Versions 0.9.x and 1.0.x
• Version 0.8.6
• Visual C++ (uses "old" legacy API)

Rendering

• Use LibVLC in an SDL application
• Generate thumbnails using LibVLC (out-of-date)
• Use LibVLC in an Qt application (out-of-date)
• Stream into a memory zone
• VCL component for Delphi (out-of-date)

Other

• Sample code from VLC source code in vlc/doc/libvlc

Language bindings

LibVLC is a C library. It has bindings to the following other languages and frameworks:

• GO binding
• C++
• Python
• Phonon (Qt4/KDE) in C++
• Qt binding
• wxWidgets MediaCtrl backend also in C++
• Objective C: see Mac OS X Framework
• Java binding
• Pascal/Delphi
• .Net / CIL
• ActiveX with the built-in VLC browser plugin for MSIE