[vlc-devel] Including proprietary codec

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le samedi 24 octobre 2009 05:44:08 Venu Vemulapally, vous avez écrit :
>      I want to insert a proprietary code in to VLC for our purpose. Could
> you please suggest me which modules we need to be changed?

You don't need to change anything. Just create a new "codec" plugin with a 
priority higher than the normal plugin(s) for the same codec. Alternatively, 
remove the normal codec plugin(s). Most codecs are stored in modules/codec/ 
currently.

Note however that VLC is currently GPL-licensed. So you cannot insert 
proprietary code directly in VLC. Unless you don't redistribute the software 
to anyone, you will need to write an open-source plugin/layer between the 
proprietary shared object (DSP driver?) and the VLC core.

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