A geneic VLC 'out of tree' code base that can be used to write a VLC Video Output Plugin.
To get started (Assuming this will be built on an Ubuntu platform):
- If you don't have scons install it: sudo apt-get install scons
- Follow the instructions for 'Installing the development files' from this page: https://wiki.videolan.org/OutOfTreeCompile/
- Clone this repo
- Go in the newly created vlc_plugin directory
- build using scons: (type 'scons')
- install (assuming VLC video output plugins are in /usr/lib/vlc/plugins/video_output) by typing ('sudo scons install')
- run vlc (type 'vlc')
- Go to preferences (either 'ctrl+p' or tools->preferences) select 'video' from the left and then from the 'output' combox select 'My Video Output'
- Play a video and bask in the debug output (if you ran vlc from the command line)