How to develop a plugin for vlc player

[smart123]

hi, everybody, can anyone tell me Ho to develop a plugin for vlc player, the plugin can be of any type.

please tell me in more Details.

thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

What kind of plugins? Decoders?

[smart123]

any type. e.g YUV plugin.decoder etc

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

any type. e.g YUV plugin.decoder etc

1 Compile VLC
2 Read HACKING file
3 create your new plugin and register it in the good category
4 Modify Modules.am
5 re-bootstrap and reconfigure
6 make
7 profit.

[smart123]

my Question is How to create my new Plugin.? would you like to tell me some tutorials

[Arite]

j-b explained the process. You'll need to get the VLC source code and modify it accordingly. Look at other plugins/modules for examples.

Arite.

[INSA]

Hi everybody !!

After a year, I am going to ask you the same question. How to develop a plugin for vlc player ?

I hope that someone will be able to answer me.

Thank you.

Mehdi

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Did you even read the answers?!

[XilasZ]

The easiest way is to get vlc source code, compile it, and add anything you want.
But it's also possible to build a stand alone plugin. You'll have to add vlc's includes and fix issues on your environment.
JoungEunKim did it on windows with visual studio 2005/8 (see here, he uploaded an example based on simple.c, an audio filter : viewtopic.php?f=32&t=81793#p274912)

Thanks to him i managed to make my own audio output plugin modified to include ac3filter's core (and all it's features, upmix, resampling, DRC, per channel gain, ...). It's more a prof of concept right now, the code is a mess, but it works.

You should read this : http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Hacker%27s_Guide, and especially the "VLC modules" link.
And don't forget vlc source code, it contains a lot of comments everywhere, it's the most complete doc you can find on vlc.