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Hi everybody,

I'm interested in learning a few things about video encoding, so I thought it could be a good idea to have a look at the VLC source code, but I'm very lost and don't know what I should look...

My main objective is to be able to get metadata from a video stream, so I would like to see how VLC performs this task. Could someone please tell me where could I find this information? What files do this, if it's possible...

Thanks for your help

I'm trying to do the same with MFC C++ ! i'm experienced in Win Forms but now i have to take a step back with MFC. I have been finding source code but it is confusing ( just like what you said). i will keep you posted if i figure something out . I'm trying to read a video from a stream and get the metadata out of the stream. What kind of meta Data are you looking @ ? KLV, SDL , .. . Are you encoding with a hardware encoder and trying to decode with VLC ? please let me know if you can find something that can it can help both of us .

to start with ;

you need to get the DLLs ( libVLC,libvlccore ) and then get the their libs and the .h files and try to compile you program which that ( i got to this point). but when i try to read some of the functions then i will complain that it cannot find some of them n the Libs. it is all confusing !! and some libraries are specific to some projects so what works for some might not work for u.

The examples they have on the forum are from 2007 and 2008 . since then , they have omitted/added/renamed functions and structures . you either want to use the old .h and dlls or use the new source code ( more stable ) but figure out how to use it. Good luck