As I’m sure lots of you have heard there have been rumours of VLC for OSX being deprecated because of the lack of active developers for it. On hearing this and both having recently learnt Objective-C and being quite a hardcore user of VLC (I use it to play fullscreen videos on my second monitor while working) I felt that I might be able to jump in and help out. I know I won’t make any groundbreaking changes but it would be nice to give back something to a product that gives to me.

So I trundled off to the VLC main page to try and get some more information about what is the current state of the project and how I could get involved with the OSX side of things. While looking around the sight I seemed to almost stumble upon this github project. Huzzah! you might be thinking but still no contact information of who to talk to about the project, where I can get more information on it or even what needs doing next! After a quick glance over the codebase, a quick run of Clang static analyser and I’ve found and very quickly patched a potential memory leak – obviously I’d like to get some more information so that I can start actually contributing to the project though, well that is if I end up having enough time between my 101 other projects…