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I wanta learn from the VideoLAN software to build my simple system:

(1)Use a camera grabber to grab realtime video from the camera and store the video in the Server, then do the encoding in the Server;

(2)The server transmits the encoded video to the clients at the clients' request;

(3)In clients, showing the realtime video grabbed from the camera which is connecting to Server.

All the system is about 'realtime' video.

Anyone can give me some advice about how I use the VideoLAN source codes to write my own codes? Which part I need to learn from?

Many thanks!

VLC hardly uses it's own codecs. most of them are developed externally. VLC is more a framework than a player or streamer.

And i think it will be very difficult to use VLC to start something from the ground up. The code is very generic in design, but because of that also very specific to VLC itself.