VLC Plugins

[mastergaurav]

Hi,

I hope that I am writing to the correct forum.

I saw a "plugins" folder and also a "sdk/include/vlc/plugins" folder. And then, finally the http://wiki.videolan.org/Category:Plugins.
But I couldn't get any idea.

1. Can I develop a plugin out-of-the-box for VLAN? Say, for example mix another audio-stream or render sub-titles without doing through the entire recompilation process of VLC Media Player?
2. Where can I get the details of the same... the "Hello, World!" tutorial, documentation / API et al?

-Gaurav

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

1/ Well, compile once VLC, then you can just compile one plugin without touching everything else.
2/ It depends on what you want to do...

More or less, if you do one plugin type, take another plugin, a simple one and copy it to understand... There are usually some functions that you will see all the time, like Open, Close, OpenDemuxer, Demux, etc...