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 vlc-devel Mailinglist 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 please comment it heavily or add doxygen documentation for your sources.
New code can be submitted to the vlc-devel mailinglist and will be evaluated for inclusion to the Git tree. You should put [PATCH] in your subject header. All patches need to be against the master head, you could follow those instructions.
Before you start be sure to read the HACKING file in the main VLC source directory, some of the documentation listed below.
Developer Documentation
Some documentation is still on this website, but since VLC evolves fast, some has
been moved to the
developers' wiki.
Another great start for documentation is the source code.
The best efforts have been done to make it as understandable as
possible. You can also ask questions in the development mailing-list
vlc-devel@videolan.org, or try to meet the developers
on IRC (#videolan, irc.videolan.org or
any Libera Chat server) if you want to help us but don't know where to
start.
Bugs, todo and roadmaps
We would very much appreciate if you inform us of any bugs you run into. We would be even happier if you would also fix them.
When making bugreports please beware of our bugreport policy. When you are an experienced user/developer and you are positive that it is a real bug that we are not yet aware of, please file it in GitLab.
liba52 - an ATSC A/52 (aka AC3)
audio decoder libmad - an MPEG
audio decoder libmpeg2 - an MPEG1/2
video decoder libavcodec (ffmpeg) - an
extensive audio/video codec library which supports several formats like
MPEG4, H263, WMV/A etc... libogg - an Ogg bitstream parser libvorbis - a Vorbis audio decoder libflac - a FLAC (Free Lossless Audio
Codec) audio decoder libspeex - a Speex (Free speech codec)
audio decoder libtheora - a Theora video decoder libfaad2 - an AAC audio decoder libdv - a DV video decoder
(deprecated in favor of libavcodec) libxvidcore (xvid) - an ISO MPEG-4
compliant video codec (deprecated in favor of libavcodec) libdca - A DTS Coherent Acoustics
decoding library.
GUI framework libraries
wxWidgets - a cross-platform C++
GUI framework that keeps the look and feel of each platform QT4 - a C++ Cross-Platform Rich Client Development Framework
Audio/Video output libraries
libsdl - a cross-platform
multimedia library designed to provide level access to audio, and 2D
video framebuffer
Miscellaneous libraries
libdvdcss - a library
for accessing encrypted DVDs libdvdnav - a library
for DVD navigation libdvdread
- a library for reading DVD-Video images libdvbpsi - a library
designed for decoding and generation of MPEG TS and DVB PSI tables libopenslp - an open-source
implementation of Service Location Protocol gettext - a set of tools
that provides a framework to help applications produce multi-lingual
messages libfreetype2
- a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly
customizable and portable while capable of producing high-quality output
(glyph images). fribidi - A Free Implementation
of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm liveMedia - C++ libraries for
multimedia streaming (RTP/RTCP, RTSP, SIP) matroska - a new, extensible open standard Audio/Video container format
