vlc/doc/standalone/libvlc.md

LibVLC Documentation

Introduction

[libVLC](@ref libvlc_documentation) is an embeddable engine for 3rd party applications and frameworks.

It runs on the same platforms as VLC (and sometimes on more) and can provide playback, streaming and conversion of multimedia files and streams.

[libVLC](@ref libvlc_documentation) has numerous bindings for other languages, such as C++, Python, java, Objective-C and C#.

The generated documentation can be browsed from [here](@ref libvlc).

License

[libVLC](@ref libvlc_documentation) is released under the LGPLv2 (or later) license. This allows embedding the engine in 3rd party applications, while letting them to be licensed under other licenses.

However, note that some plugins are under more restrictive licenses, such as GPLv3 (or later).

Example

\snippet{lineno} example.c minimal example