Getting Started At Coding

VLC media player is a fast changing and ever evolving project. It is very important to keep up to date with the latest developments. Therefore we advise everyone who makes changes to the VLC sourcecode, to sign up with the [mailing-list] so you can keep up with the latest changes and developments.

Please try to keep to our code conventions. They are very simple and help to keep all code readable. When you write new stuff, especially core stuff (in the "src" or "include" folders), please comment it heavily or add doxygen documentation for your sources.

New code can be submitted to the vlc-devel mailing-list and will be evaluated for inclusion to the SVN tree. You should put [PATCH] in your subject header. All patches need to be against the HEAD SVN tree. You can create them by running svn diff in the VLC source directory.

Before you start be sure to read the HACKING file in the main VLC source directory.