Removing Plugins

[neosettler]

Greetings everyone,

I'm doing a C++ wrapper for the VLC player (only play and stop features) and I was quite surprise to see that the API depends on a monstrous folder plugins. Apparently there is no way to get rid of this abomination entirely but I was wondering if it is possible to safely remove dead weight plugins because I think 75 mega is quite over the top.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Sure, you can remove any plugins you don't need.

VLC 2.0.5 plugins are only 10-15 MiB though depending on the platform. You might want to strip debug symbols if you get 75 MiB...

[neosettler]

I don't think I need any, which ones are the essentials?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

It depends.

[neosettler]

for instance, let's say we stick to minimum by playing local mov and avi files?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Then you can remove everything except file in access/ and everything except avi and mp4 in demux/...

It still depends.

[neosettler]

Thank you for your respond Remi, could you elaborate a little on "it depends"?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

No. Far too many variables.