[vlc-devel] #2568 further help required.

[Fayyaz Khan]

Hi Naveen,

Additionally a few things that i did not find written in the developer 
wiki and had to explore myself in the code are:

1. Start of application is in bin/vlc.c main function.
2. Core engine of vlc including player, internals of playlist etc. are 
all written in c and would be found under src/ directory.
3. Most of other components are loaded as modules (which can be loaded 
or unloaded and has a specific interface). Details of modules are on a 
separate tutorial in vlc dev wiki. The GUI of entire vlc is also loaded 
as a module and is written in Qt (c++) with following location 
modules/gui/qt
4. vlc is multithreaded and various threads are synchronized via 
semaphores for e.g. gui modifies the playlist and sem_post the main 
playlist thread which is waiting for the lock and otherwise runs in a 
loop (code would be under src/playlist/thread.c)
5. Where ever there is platform specific code (windows main, threads, 
file system etc.), there are files with names indicating and code is 
written to call respective functions for the current platform.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Fayyaz

On 2/24/2013 11:27 AM, Des Wagner wrote:
> Hey Naveen,
>
> A good place to start is the README file in your vlc directory. It 
> gives a brief overview of where you'll find all the different parts of 
> code. You might like to look through the /docs directory and most of 
> the code is found in the /modules directory. Hope that helps.
>
> Des
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Naveen Narayanan 
> <princeofdarkness4444 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:princeofdarkness4444 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>             Well, I have learned to build vlc from source and i also
>     did run it. Now i guess i will have to learn about the modules and
>     code related to work on ticket #2568. Could anyone tell me what is
>     the next step in development. As i said i want to work on changing
>     the subtitle size using a hotkey. So are there any books related
>     to this or any links, to learn more about this specific part.
>     please help, i really don't know what is the next step.
>
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