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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

What kind of plugins? Decoders?

any type. e.g YUV plugin.decoder etc

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.

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

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.

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

Did you even read the answers?!

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.