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I want to use VLC player to play MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and our own protocol. We have an stand alone application that receives our propriety encoded data over network, decode it and generate DIB out of it. I want to know how to go about adding this protocol as input to to VLC player. Please point me to some documents on adding plugins to VLC.

Also let me know if you feel there is another way to make VLC player play our encoded stream.

I would really appreciate your answers, suggestions, comments.

Hello.

I had the similar aim. First of all read this document http://developers.videolan.org/vlc/vlc/ ... anual.html
It will help you much. Then try to understand, how input module works. The easiest way to write your own module is to change the existing one.

Grmpf, yet another propriary format

You can also have a look at the HACKING file in the source, the doc dir in the source.

Also don't forgot to comply with the GPL if you distribute your software.

Btw, what does DIB mean ?

Thanks for your replies.

As I have understood so far, I would need to write new input module, demultiplexer and decoder. Is that right?

PS:
Though it is propriety format, we don't mind releasing its code.

DIB is device independent bitmap. Currently we use this to render the picture.

If you need help you can also come on #videolan on Freenode and you'll find loads of people willing to help you.

So from our discussion as I understand I need to write new acess, demux and decoder module.

My input would be a network stream over UDP. Can I not use the existing access module?

Since I am really new to VLC architecture and code, can you please guide me as to which modules are easier to modify without causing side effects.