Contribution Guidelines

As an open-source project, VideoLAN welcomes all contributions to the project, and we encourage the community to submit patches directly to VideoLAN or help with our documentation, packaging, tests, user support, material or even money.

How to contribute to VideoLAN

Give time

If you have time, we welcome your help in various areas:

  • Programmer: Help us submit patches to the codebase of VLC.

  • Writer: Writers help us improve our documentation.

  • Translators: As a translator, you can help us to translate VLC or other projects.

  • Moderators & Support: To answer on the forums and mailing lists.

  • Designers: We encourage designers to join us and create designs for this website and the VLC media player.

You should see the developer documentation, subscribe to our various mailing-lists, have a look at the bug-tracking system, join the IRC channel to get help on how to start coding.

Contribute materials

Your particular DVD, VCD, or SVCD does not work with VLC? Do you have a satellite card or a MPEG encoding card that is not supported by some VideoLAN software?

You can donate it to the developers, and it may motivate them to work on your suggestion! In any case, you do not have any warranty; your wish will be taken into account.

If you want to donate materials, please contact us.