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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 [http://www.videolan.org our website].

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=== Compiling VLC ===

To compile VLC, you first need to get the [[GetTheSource|Source Code]].

* [[UnixCompile|How to compile on Unix/Linux]]
* [[Win32Compile|How to compile on Windows]]
* [[OSXCompile|How to compile on Mac OS X]]
* [[BeOSCompile|How to compile on BeOS]]

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=== Joining us ===

VideoLAN welcomes anyone wanting to help, either by writing code, finding or fixing bugs, starting or updating translations, doing graphics work, ...

==== Getting started ====

Getting 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|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 [http://developers.videolan.org/lists.html mailing list], where all commits are archived.

[[Getting_Started_At_Coding|More information on how to get started at coding on VLC]].

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=== What is currently going on ===

These pages are used to coordinate some of the currently ongoing development or artwork works.

==== Development ====

* [[VoutRework|Vout Rework]] - improving the video output subsystem
* [[ExternalAPI|External API]] - improving the external API to vlc
* [[MediaControlAPI|Media Control API]] - an high level player-independent media API, wrapping around our [[ExternalAPI|External API]]
* [[0.9.0PlaylistTODO|0.9.0 Playlist TODO]] - Major changes in the upcoming version
* [[telnet rc rewrite]] - Merging the "telnet" and "rc" controls 
* [[SimplePreferences|Simple Preferences]] - We wish to add a "simple" preferences mode, additionally to the full mode we already have
* [[QtIntfTODO|Qt Interface TODO]] - A brand new qt4 interface ... in order to get rid of wxWidgets.
* [[Contrib_Status|Contrib Status]] - Contrib Libraries Status

==== Design ====
* [[DefaultSkinRequirements|Default Skin Requirements]] - what you need to make a skin that might be eligible for default skin
* [[WebsiteRedesign|Website Redesign]] and [[WebsiteDesign|Design Proposals]]
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== 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 [http://134.214.107.10:85/sims/index.php/Client_query notes] (fr) about developing a new module type.

* Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 's [http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/video/vlc.xml notes] about packaging VLC into [http://www.gentoo.org/ Gentoo].

* [[Add a skin|How to add a skin on the skins download page]]