Getting Started Contributing

[dmemphis]

I have used VLC quite a bit and without it we'd all be really stuck!
So I'm a C programmer who would benefit from the experience of helping improve this...
Understanding multiple platform applications, how streaming works, how video works, the automation interfaces, etc. etc.
Please post or direct me to steps to getting oriented to the software, building, theory of operation? and how to best contribute.
Sounds like it could be a good "sticky" if its not here somewhere.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You should have all your information in https://wiki.videolan.org/Developers_Corner

[ekerekes]

I am also interested in working with VLC. I was looking through a lot of the files, making minor changes to some of them to get a feel for the code and see how it worked. One change I made was in the src/playlist/tree.c file. I tried randomizing the next function, thinking it would play my playlist out of order, without having the shuffle feature on. This did not work, however. Is this not the place where the playlist data structure is stored? Could someone point me in the right direction for finding the file to correctly make this modification? Thanks