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 palyer.

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? You have a satellite card or an 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 that your wish will be taken into account.

If you want to donate materials, please contact us.

Donate money

What are the financial needs of VideoLAN?

Buy hardware for developing and testing purposes (DVDs, satellite cards and antenna, MPEG encoding cards,…) Maintain the servers and hardware to run VideoLAN services. Promote the project by organizing or participating in events (FOSDEM, Linux Expo Paris, …) What is the legal structure of VideoLAN? VideoLAN is a non-profit organization, under French law. VideoLAN has its own bank account and is responsible for running and maintaining the VideoLAN servers.

Donate to VideoLAN via PayPal

You can donate money to the project through VideoLAN’s PayPal account. There is no minimal amount for your donation.

If you click on one of the buttons below, you will be taken to the secure PayPal Web site. You don’t need to have a paypal account in order to make a donation.

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If you encounter problems or if you have questions, you can contact us.

Donate to VideoLAN via Bank account

VIDEOLAN

IBAN: FR76 3000 3034 3000 1506 8853 588

BIC/SWIFT: SOGEFRPP

FRANCE

Donate to VideoLAN using Monero

Use this address: 41gP4569HkeAJPcqSTizJYiMcMZVQekGvAAgAucaVCwaNsm bSrkcFY41w4FwgtD6N5XLV88xwrLjn87dpjUbtZJoDUuSeJF or the QR-Code below:

Donate to VideoLAN using Bitcion

Use this address: 3EowKLZ7Gf86BrHad7XXNpFk8jfXBeNPuF or the QR-Code below