VLC Developers Corner

Welcome to VLC Developers Corner, A directory of everything to do with the development of VideoLAN's projects. Check VLC's page to get info on VLC.

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Coding on VLC

• Get started at coding on VLC
• Get the Source Code and Compile VLC
• You might be interested in our Mini Projects or Janitorial projects
• Read our Hacker's Guide
  • Introduction to VLC's core
  • How to write a module
  • How VLC modules load
• Code documentation
• Code Conventions

VLC development links

• Trac list of bugs
• vlc-devel mailing list, mailing list.
• Translation information and stats
• Open Hub statistics
• Jenkins (Automatic builds)
• Nightly builds
• Launchpad (recent bug changes) (all bugs)
• code.videolan.org
• git.videolan.org

Current technical discussions on VLC

• Usability Complaints
• Wayland integration

Past discussions

• Vout Rework - improving the video output subsystem.
• telnet rc rewrite - Merging the "telnet" and "rc" controls.
• Simple Preferences - We wish to add a "simple" preferences mode, additionally to the full mode we already have.
• Qt Interface TODO - A brand new qt4 interface ... in order to get rid of wxWidgets.
  • QtIntfMockups
    • QtImageset
    • QtIntfMockups-DericksIdea
• Qt and GTK
• DBus-spec - Specification for a Common, Desktop neutral, Media Player D-Bus interface.
• Stats System
• InteractionSystem - Interaction System
• Media Control API - a OUTDATED high level player-independent media API
• 0.8.5StringReview
• 2005StringsReview
• Libavcodec regressions
• Mobile Features
• AndroidTODO - moved to Trac report 27
• SDI API - Linux-related: regarding SDI cards for V4l2
• Newplaylist
• Newsoundslider
• BOMM3U - Byte order mark for M3U playlists. #EXTM3U means Extended M3U

Design

• Website Redesign and Design Proposals
• Default Skin Requirements - Specifications of an eligible skin for default skin.